Oniroku Dan: Best of SM
The lovely Term Azuma introduces several scenes from selected Roman Porno titles and has a scene of her own. Naomi Tani, Junko Mabuki and Izumi Shima show you why they are the NIkkatsu queens of SM.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fumihiko Kato, Yoshihiro Oikawa
Actors: Akio Shinguji, Izumi Shima, Junko Mabuki, Naomi Tani, Terumi Azuma
The Flying Dagger
The Yu family earn the ire of the Green Dragon clan when the daughter kills the clan chief’s son. The Green Dragon chief wounds family head Yu Yuan with his…
The Devil’s Envoys
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
The Hoodlum
Vincent Lubeck is a vicious ex-convict. His criminal activities are despised by his family, but he uses and abuses them in the course of his crimes. Eventually his own brother…
The Blonde Pick-Up
Scalli is a gangster who manages women wrestlers as a front for his bookmaking, drug, and prostitution rackets. He trusts the wrong people and ends up trying to run away…
Wavelength
Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to…
The Doctor Speaks Out
A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage.
…And Justice for All
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
The Good Thief
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone’s already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.
The Passionate Friends
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Akenfield
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family’s past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry…
The Adversary
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L’Adversaire’s protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary…