Paradise Widow Play

Fumio, who works at an ironworks, has an affair with Yoko, the wife of the president of the ironworks. The wife of Shimizu, a detective who investigates Yoko's background at the request of Nobuo, the president of the company, is also having an affair with his mistress, Kenichi. Nobuo becomes angry and impulsive. Upon receiving the report, a jealous Nobuo impulsively kills Shimizu and appears with an iron pipe in front of Fumio and Yoko, who are entangled in an ironworks. The story accelerates toward the end as the impulsive murderer brings together a man and a woman in a love-hate relationship at a villa in Izu....

Ah, the rope melts tender skin again. Long ago, two ropes, one white and one red, were used as torture devices at the execution grounds. Criminals tied with these ropes, known as the "Couple's Rope," would die in ecstasy, mad with joy.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Pink film from Toei Central.

Kabukicho, Shinjuku, the number one entertainment district in Japan. There are professional gigolos who make this sleepless city their base and get what they want, from money and women to desire. They are the "gigolo" gang led by the charismatic Naoki Fushimi. Akira, Yuki, and Ryoma are aiming to become full-fledged gigolos. Akira has a girlfriend named Mariko who is a model for vinyl magazines. But that's not enough for a gigolo. For a gigolo, having sex for free is meaningless. Yuki finds a soapland girl named Misa, and Ryoma finds a woman named Yoko, and they spend a sensual night together. Meanwhile, Akira is taken by Mariko to help with a vinyl magazine shoot. Akira is getting increasingly impatient with his life, which can hardly be called gigolo...

Tomomi runs a cleaning company and develops an actress' dream. Rarely comes the opportunity to become an actress, and she feels skeptical as she faces a cold reality. Top actress Getaro reaches out to her secretly. However, Getaro was a murderer who murdered my youngest daughter, Rina, and overturned the murder charges on his wife, Marie. What is the fate of Tomomi left alone with Getaro?

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.

Summer in Hiroshima, 1945. Hiroshi, who had volunteered to become a child soldier and was wearing a military uniform, hugged Junichi as the atom bomb goes off. Years later, Hiroshi spent every day drowning in Seiichiro Irie's caress, but sees a man who looks like Junichi...

In a rural town, ex-members of a motorcycle gang become sporadic victims of vigilante attacks. A group of high school boys are responsible for the various assaults because they're upset that the motorcycle gang had disbanded. The boys idolized the rebel gang and harbored dreams of joining them after graduation. A female student happens to see one of the assaults and is threatened by the high school thugs. But she turns out to tougher than she looks.

Satoko, a mentally frail girl, is taken in by Anzai, the owner of a hot springs inn, after her parents commit suicide. One day, the clerk Matsuo forcibly takes Satoko's virginity. The following night, the clerk appears in Satoko's room again. The servant Shozo feels sorry for Satoko and invites her to run away to Tokyo with him. Meanwhile, Shozo steals money from the inn and accidentally kills Matsuo. He buries the body and runs away to Tokyo. Satoko is left alone and is subjected to Anzai's bizarre torture...

Time passes quietly without incident. Shizue lives peacefully as a wife. Masako, who is Shizue's friend and lives in Nagoya, uses Shizue as an alibi and comes to Tokyo several times a month to have an affair. When Shizue learns that Masako's cheating partner is Akira, a star athlete back in high school, a faint feeling of jealousy runs through her...

Late Bloom: Campus Erotica

A bus full of tour bus guide trainees is hijacked by two men after pulling over for a bathroom break. Loosely inspired by a 1977 bus jacking that occurred in Nagasaki.

A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was threatened by a man acting like a yakuza and wanted to sell smuggled, irregular jewelry at the store. When the husband could not refuse complications ensued.

Tamiko is the queen of a photo-taking salon, a widowed 26-year-old with a vibrant body she doesn't know what to do with. Since her husband passed away, she's agonized over the loneliness of sleeping alone every night. Tamiko has to feed her mother-in-law, Suzuyo, who is old but very sexy, and her brother-in-law, Koji, who attends a cram school. One day, a couple comes to her asking if they can take a commemorative photo of them having sex as a "proof of their love." Although she accepts, she becomes aroused when she witnesses their passionate intercourse, and is reminded of her experiences with her late husband, soaking her trousers as she takes the photo. But two men are after Tamiko. One is Yamada, the owner of the cram school, nicknamed "the widow killer." The other is Bunta, the son of a wealthy real estate magnate. The two men approach Tamiko, who exudes a bewitching allure...