This is the story of a man who comes into possession of a dream-like aphrodisiac.
A man and woman meet when he pulls her out of an icy fountain that she has just jumped into. But their developing romance is marred by bad friends, money troubles and illegal sex work.
The story is about Nagatoshi, a handsome and sexy monk played by Kazuhiro Sano, who is struggling for the widow he loves. Foreshadowing the prophecy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the film is a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle that depicts the human condition of a downtown area undergoing development and the efforts of men and women who rebel against it.
One day, Hitomi observes her classmate Eriko stealing lipstick in a drugstore and follows her home. The two young women get to know and love each other. While the withdrawn Hitomi believes herself and Eriko to be reincarnations of angel warriors who once fought demon armies, her emancipated and apathetic friend wanders through life between sex contacts with older men and fear of falling into a boring bourgeois existence. The different futures of the two soon lead to tensions.
A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.
No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.
A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.
The story of a young man who tragically lost his lover in a horriffic motorcycle accident. Now working at a video store and selling uncensored gay hardcore pornography under the counter, he one day discovers the worlds most bizarre snuff video... which happens to "star" a man who looks exactly like his dead lover. Pushed over the edge by this event, the protagonist goes on a violent rampage, attempting to murder everybody involved in the video's creation.
A tense love triangle unfolds as You struggles with his affair, questioning his identity and desires while caught between two men who change his life forever.
Murayama, a diligent businessman, is 25 years old and still a virgin. His boss invites him to a bar where he is introduced to a new woman. His boss warns him, "She's a professional, don't get too serious," but he continues to frequent the bar and gets sucked deeper into it. He has no idea that the woman is being kept by an S&M man...
A woman explores relationships with an older salary man and bad boy, whose friends and fellow vagabonds search for purpose.
A struggling jazz saxophonist and a dancer at a rundown strip club are a couple. Though they love each other, they are unable to give up on their glamorous dreams and live their days at rock bottom. One day, the man cheats on her with a woman he picks up, and the next morning, she steals his precious saxophone. Wanting to buy the exhausted man a new saxophone, the dancer decides to sell her body to her devoted fan...
Short film by Akiyuki Nosaka.
Shiro wanted to separate from his wife Yuko, who was having many affairs with other men. Then he met his mistress Emi, whom he had separated from three years earlier. This made him decide to leave home and take refuge at his friend Miyagawa's house. When Yuko found out that Shiro and Emi had gotten back together, she asked her male friend Hideo to assault Emi. Shiro saw Emi being violated right in front of his eyes...
Pink film by Isomura Itsumichi.
A couple living in a housing complex rent an apartment together and take turns enjoying their nightlife, but one man rents it on the wrong day and bumps into another man's wife. He is captivated by her troubled appearance. Then he offers his wife to the company's managing director, and the relationship becomes even more intense.
A woman's screams can be heard coming from an empty production company. The voice came from a building where no one was expected to be there, as it was currently the holidays. A woman's scream comes from the "Secretary's Room." Ruriko is desperately trying to escape from Sugita's grasp. Ruriko was an office lady at this company until a few days ago, and although Sugita did not report directly to her, he was her boss...
Chitose, who runs a long-established Japanese sweets shop, was forced to marry a man who assaulted her when she was a university student, but he died after allowing Chitose's body to mature. She now entrusts her shop to her manager, Aikawa, and adopts Mayumi, who used to be her bunny girl, and indulges in homosexual pleasure. One day, Chitose reunites with her ex-girlfriend, Yoshida, and plans an orgy with him, his wife, Yuri, and Mayumi's boyfriend, Junji...
A girl runs away from her boyfriend. A middle-aged couple brother and sister find her, taking her to their mansion in the woods. They her to become a masochist and introduce her to their younger "brother"...
When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.