Movies: Tokuko Watanabe

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...

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...

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...

Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For Fuyuko, who is at an impasse, there is no longer "family", "love" and "freedom"....

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 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....

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

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...

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

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

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...

Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to for...

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings....

A single woman has a series of messy relationships while feeling that her maternal clock is running out....

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....

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...

A young man is conflicted. He is trying to raise his high school aged sister and keep her out of trouble in their rough and tumble neighborhood. But he is also a leader of a motorcycle gang of psycho rapists who are targeting school girls. Can he get...