film diperankan yoichi takabayashi
Docudrama starring dollmaker Keisuke Okuyama
Yoshiyama Kazuko is a thirdyear junior...The Little Girl Who Conquered Time 1983
Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.
A husband and wife are on...Rope and Breasts 1983
A husband and wife are on the road doing a traveling BDSM show at various seedy locations. The wife is getting bored with the show and wants to quit. But while on tour in Kyoto a wealthy man and his proper looking wife invite them to do a private show. Little do they know that their stage routine is just child’s play compared to what the couple have in mind for them.
To satisfy her lovers fetish for...Irezumi 1982
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
The mysterious relationship between a breastsick...
Film adaptation to Junichiro Tanizakis novel...
Obayashis take on the famous Kosuke...The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi 1979
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Yumi an exceptionally beautiful call girl...Double Suicide at Nishijin 1977
Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.
The story takes place during the...The Temple of the Golden Pavillion 1976
The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.
A woman and her bridegroom are...Death at an Old Mansion 1975
A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is up to an amateur detective to figure out what happened. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the clues in this locked room mystery.
A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless...The Water Was So Clear 1973
A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she is raped by a young man who then becomes her lover. The priest happens on them one night as they make love before the temple shrine, and he becomes erotically obsessed.
The theme is that even if...Prostitute 1973
The theme is that even if the prostitution prohibition law is enforced, as long as the female body continues to exist, "prostitute" sex is eternal. , a report on “prostitutes and prostitution” that is fantastically depicted by Yoichi Takabayashi.
A steam locomotive that runs on...The Wonderful World of Steam Locomotive 1970
A steam locomotive that runs on a trip and the beautiful four seasons of Japan.
