Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda's enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair, and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen brings together ten filmmakers and artists who consistently affirm what it means to be gay or lesbian in their work. Habakari chose ten filmmakers to make a five-minute work each, developed around a gay or lesbian theme, and compiled the resulting shorts in random order to create this omnibus film. The result is a queer film, by queer filmmakers, for a queer audience. Each short is its own short story, and the styles range from drama and experimental film and animation. (2024 complete version includes all eleven films, 65 mins.)
An association takes in young LGBT people made homeless by their families. Behind the apparent comedy, the excesses, the desire to assert themselves, lie shattered lives. They all have this furious desire to exist, to find their place in society. Here, they have six months to find a job, a place to live and accept themselves as they are. It's a race against time, during which Noëlle, who runs the association, and Alex, who helps her in her mission, are also forced to face up to their own failings and question their motivation for helping others.
The story of a popular singer who finds love, the journalist who exposes him, the hysterical reactions of his Christian parents, his fear that he has caught AIDS and his supportive gay friends. The film is a strong indictment of the negative effect Christianity has had on Japanese society.
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.
It took a hundred queer years for Lola Perla to be finally recognized by a government that never really took notice of the likes of her. But that’s okay, because along with the president’s anti-climactic, and in many ways, almost insincere recognition is a fat envelope containing Php100,000 (USD$2,000). For Perla, this is more than enough money to transcend her idea of a lifetime legacy. Today is the day Lola Perla confronts her long-standing personal covenant: to bail an ex-lover’s son out of jail. Meeting fifty-someting Nanding transforms into a reunion, then, a communion of her present self, with an old love.
An emotional coming-of-age drama centered around Andou Jun, a gay student who is not out. He accepts a confession from his fujoshi classmate Miura Sae and they start dating. However, Jun is also seeing Makoto, but fails to tell Sae about his male lover.
Old college chums get together for a weekend reunion that is bound to open old wounds and perhaps heal them. New romances find a spark while old ones rekindle.
A man spends 15 minutes waiting for the results of a Rapid HIV Test.
An adventurous love story between two young women of different social and economic backgrounds who find themselves going through all the typical struggles of a new romance.
Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A work in progress now finally completed it's the last American musical comedy from that era which can be viewed today as a prophetic satire. Through its provocative, entertaining storyline highlighted by song and dance, the movie answers the burning question of our time, "What happens after the marriage?
Paris, summer 2019. Marcio is a young Brazilian who recently moved to the French capital, hoping to find a better life there. However, reality catches up with him when he ends up broke and homeless. Without hope of integrating the working world, he survives by joining a pimping network, until a man, much more mature than him, decides to take him under his wing.
Women are attacked and robbed by men.
An eros drama depicting a poor man who seeks true love while drowning in the desires and pleasures of five women who flock to a millionaire man. Gohei who inherited his uncle's legacy and became a millionaire. After hearing the story, his wife's first child and Kojima, who is having an affair, plan to sneak his fortune.
Yuko manages the boarding house by herself before her husband. She is thinking of closing the boarding house because of the deficit, but she comforted herself in front of the deceased because of the loneliness of her husband. Second film in the "Widows Boarding House?" series directed by Daikei Shimizu.
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of saving their lives as well as the ones of future generations.
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
A family drama in which popular sexy actresses Shizuka Kanno and Yuko Shiraki co-starred. The mother, who was said to be a guardian, passed away, and the three brothers and sisters fought for bones and flesh over the whereabouts of the heritage. Tetsuya Takehora, a veteran director of a pink movie known for "Junjo nurashi, Ai Seikatsu" and "Psycho Nobakayarou," picked up the megaphone.
Minemura, who works in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital, was unable to have an abortion, and she was fired. She leaves the hospital and opens a hidden obstetric and gynecological practice on a remote street. This place became a place for women who wanted to get medical help, secretly. One day, when Minemura finds out that the woman who came to him is a virgin, he feels lustful and eventually rapes her.