Movies: Tokuko Watanabe

Kizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails flower arrangement teacher Yumeji, Yuriko's older sister. Rather than allow him to shame her clan by sending the photos to...

After a bungled robbery attempt, two thugs kidnap a bride on her wedding day....

A shiftless resident in a boarding house spends his days crawling in the attic and spying on the renters below. One day he spies an elegant lady enter a room where a clown awaited her and watched as he pleasured her. But she spotted him watching and ...

A troubled ex-prostitute turned barkeep is enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her young lover’s singing career, she is sent to prison for murder. Now known only as Prisoner 101, she spen...

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to...

A cruel and sadistic landowner buys a daughter from a noble samurai family who had incurred a large debt. Months later, the landowner's sister comes to visit, and discovers that the new wife is secretly in love with another man. The wife suffers vari...

Hikaru is a female teacher at an all boy's high school. Yata is a mysterious student who transfers from another school. He is the younger brother of a boy who had committed suicide because of his obsession with Hikaru. Yata wants to avenge his broth...

Two young delinquent girls survive on the streets by selling themselves as high school students. But the local girl gang catches them working their territory and brings them to their boss. After they witness a girl getting brutally punished for not o...

What was the trauma that turned a demure middle class wife into a slum dwelling whore while the husband is away at work?...

A sex therapist treats various couples who are having problems in bed....

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led....

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation....

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings....

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home for the abandonment of the original. The film won the Golden St. George and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2...

A river crossing is blocked and various traveling couples are stranded at an inn. Everybody has their secrets and the police are looking for a suspect in their midst....

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on ...

On the advice of their horoscopes, a scenario writer, a producer and a director take a working vacation to a hot spring in the hopes of finishing their porn script. For the next week, the three men conduct interviews with many young women, seeking to...

A horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously emerges into a topsy turvy erotic dreamland....

A college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in law to sleep with her because the idea arouses him, while also making him insanely jealous. The professor keeps a journal of his fantasies in a locked cupb...

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women....