Zoku: Matagari tenshi: Tabidachi no asadachi (2022)

The Secret Six

Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank's operation, beats a rival gang, becomes wealthy, and dominates the city for several years until a secret group of six masked businessmen have him prosecuted and sent to the electric chair.

Rewind 2: 1996

When Marty's car is stolen, he sets out on a mission to find it; however, he soon realizes that the person who stole it is much more dangerous than he thinks.

Teddy Pendergrass: If You Don't Know Me

The untold and ultimately inspiring story of legendary singer, Teddy Pendergrass, the man poised to be the biggest R&B artist of all time until the tragic accident that changed his life forever at the age of only 31.

The Devil under the Windshield

A journalist is investigating a group of poachers who are illegally selling the huge amounts of fish

Gift of Fire

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that makes use of nuclear fission energy. While doing research to save Japan, the researchers there wonder if they should promote the development of weapons as scientists. Research enthusiast Ishimura Osamu tries to experiment purely but is at the mercy of the time period. His brother, Hiroyuki, also has to face the truth of the war. Asakura Setsu wants only to talk about the future. A story based on historical facts about youth during the tragedy of war.

We, the Children of Caterpillars

The theatre company of a forgotten town puts on one last performance to escape the reality of their home fading away into nothingness.

A Kid from Coney Island

Feature documentary about the rise and fall, and rebirth of ex-NBA star, Stephon Marbury.

Goal

Sam, a football player, gets admission in a prestigious international school under sports quota. His life changes for the better when he falls in love with a girl from the same school.

Post-War

A city dweller moves through various routines and encounters throughout a single day. The gradually revealed circumstances point toward a crisis starting to unfold.

Buddies

Based on a celebrated book by Kuniko Mukoda, this film directed by Yasuo Furuhata tells of a close friendship undone by love.

The Hellions

Luke Billings (Lionel Jeffries) and his family have a problem with the new police sergeant Sam Hargis (Richard Todd) so they take over a small Transvaal town with the attention of drawing Hargis into a showdown. Hargis tries to get back up from the townsfolk who do not want to know, so is forced to lay low. As things get out of hand one of the Billings boys takes an interest in the storekeeper's wife, Priss Dobbs (Anne Aubrey). Having had enough her husband, Ernie (Jamie Uys) takes up the gun and heads down the main street alone. An act that prompts Hargis to join him. Slowly, the townsfolk turn up to back them up.

The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West

Columbia's 33rd serial (made between "Jack Armstrong" and "The Sea Hound") was based on the character that first appeared in "Action Comics" No. 42.

Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride

Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades. In North America, Pride is complicated by commercialization and a sense that the festivals are turning away from their political roots toward tourism, party promotion and entertainment. Christie documents the ways larger, more mainstream Pride events have supported the global Pride movement and how human rights components are being added to more established events. In the New York sequence, leaders organize an alternative Pride parade, the Drag March, set up to protest the corporatization of New York Pride. A parade in São Paulo, the world's largest Pride festival, itself includes a completely empty float, meant to symbolize all those lost to HIV and to anti-gay violence.

Big Bad Mama-San: Dekotora 1

Nami’s father was a legendary truck driver, and after his death, Nami inherited the deco-truck With her up-beat personality and super driving technique, Nami is popular among her customers. By coincidence, Nami meets Momoka, a hooker who takes truck drivers as customers. Momoka says to Nami, “I want to start a new life !!” and begs that she wants to be Nami’s assistant. She is overwhelmed by Momoka’s passion, and decides to take her in. One day, after dinner, the two return to the truck and sees that there is a box which they must have forgotten to load. So they load the box back in the truck, and the odd twosome drive away to the next destination. This “box” is the start of trouble for Nami and Momoka. What lies ahead in their destiny?!

Secret of One Summer

A daughter returns home to her ailing adopted father. A home that has a violent past, missing money and a tragic misunderstanding.

Wakazuma nikki: Modaeru

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Enka Jôshikô: Kizudarake no Kaben

A small town girl runs away to the big city in hopes of a singing career. Along the way she meets an illustrator who also has dreams of success. But life in the city is cruel and their lives don’t go as planned.

Runa's Confession: 'Men Crawling All Over Me'

A semi-autobiographical semi-documentary about the career of real life J-pop singer Runa Takamura and the men in her life.

Poruno Joyû Shigan

22-year-old Hyodo Kiriko has never had non-monetary sex except for her first time, and now works as an escort girl, with dates arranged by phone. One day, a customer invites her to appear in a real behind-the-scenes video, after she starts appearing in an underground video. Then, by chance, she auditions for a movie and makes her debut as a new actress, but the underground video is also leaked, and she becomes a scandalous actress...

Seifuku yurizoku: Warui asobi

The film depicts two girls who are wavering in their longing for the same sex.

Aroused by Gymnopedies

Shinji is a middle-aged, sleaze film director who used to be famous. He hardly goes back home and moves from one woman to another. In spite of his idleness, women are very fond of him and look after him compassionately for whatever reason.

Fujun'na kankei

A sensual drama depicting a man who lives like a pimp with his wife and three other women.

Sex dainamaito: Madonna no Shizuku

A depressed private detective who spends his days digging through love hotel trash for his cases meets a free spirited young woman who lives next door.

Monmon hôjin: Barikyari otoko kui

Hanako, the editor-in-chief of a fashion web magazine, is shocked by the splendid crotch of a new employee, Itaya. In order to succeed at Itaya, Hanako enlists the help of Momoko, an actress who is Hanako's college classmate and who is a big fan of Hanako's.

Woman Who Exposes Herself

Toriko is a sexually frustrated wife who gets involved in swapping games with her neighbors.

Bed-In

Without knowing their names a man and woman have sex. Afterwards they introduce themselves and begin an affair. The woman feels empty without a man. The man is married with a child but he needs more than what his wife can provide.

Groper Train: Beware of Miniskirts

Soko, a photographer who has made a name for herself taking shocking erotic art, becomes involved with an exhibitionist couple who get off on staging public molestation.

Ōgazumu Mariko

Under a full moon near a highway bridge a woman has sex with her boyfriend during her period. Unfortunately the boyfriend is accidentally killed by a flying pop bottle from a passing delivery truck. This triggers a story of bloody revenge.

Nawa no joô

A wronged woman takes sadistic revenge on a professor, his wife and his lover.

Beautiful Mystery

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takizawa, takes a liking to the new recruit. After an early “special” training session the two develop a lasting and loving relationship.

Hitozuma korekutā

A taxi driving, punk rock listening, serial rapist with a bad attitude picks up female fares, sedates them with gas and takes them to his grungy lair where he video tapes his sexual abuse.

Blue Sky

A road movie about three persons traveling in a campervan on their way to Tokyo, Hamamatsu, and Kyoto. The film is based on the story of the heroine, a young girl named Momo, who was a member of the "21 Faces of Kaijin" gang involved in the Glico Morinaga Incident, and the film's ideas are remarkable, including the use of a tape recording of the actual incident.

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends.

Akai Tôri-ame

An angry young man, who had been sentenced for rape, is freed from juvenile detention. He spots a lone woman who is taking a rest from driving and drags her into the woods to rape her. This experience destroys the woman’s marriage plans. Later she meets a sympathetic deliveryman and they become lovers. As she describes her past ordeal to him he begins to suspect that the assailant might be his younger brother. When the younger brother shows up the woman’s world is turned upside down again.

Temptation of the Mask

An orphaned arsonist is interrogated by a detective, revealing his story of sexual abuse and trauma.

Tandem

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

Dawn of the Felines

A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.

Gynecology Ward: Caress Me Tenderly

A female hair stylist is torn between two lovers as she waits for treatment in a gynecological ward. She meets the other patients who are there and gets to know their stories.

Sex Hunter

A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a dark side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.

Ikenie tenshi

A woman who has given up on truly loving others and seeking human warmth. Due to a sudden accident in which such a woman is kidnapped, she begins to love a man for the first time. But the man also had the same eyes as me. He too could only lead a rough life, never loving others. The woman begins to love the man seriously, as if her own life is at stake, and the man gradually begins to accept the woman's heart.

Female Gym Coach: Jump and Straddle

It’s coming up to competition time for the pretty office girls of the Kara Cosmetics Company. Kei (Junko Asahina) and her co-workers are preparing their amateur rhythmic gymnastics team for an upcoming competition. In order to assist the sexy ladies, Aoki (Funasaku Sasairi) is brought in as their new coach. As the team wonders about the coach’s ability to perform both on and off the court, Kei’s relationship with him is revealed. Long ago, Aoki slept with Kei before a competition and she lost. Now, he’s worried it will happen again! Can the coach overcome his sexual issues and help Kei win this time?

Tokyo Decadence

A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Hādo reipu

An invitation to the class reunion has arrived. It was a pension in Shinshu that she visited five years ago during a tennis training camp for my high school club. One girl who was there committed suicide. Why a class reunion in such a place... Six friends and one teacher meet again after a long time. From that night onwards, a series of murders begins, with participating women being brutally raped and then killed. What was the criminal's intention? Who will be killed next? While everyone trembles in fear, the evil hand finally approaches the office lady...

Ran Mitsuo: Niku shiiku

A female TV announcer goes to a therapist for help with her sexual phobias and SM fantasies. Unfortunately the therapist has his own inner demons which causes him to affect a rather unethical and kinky “cure”.

Za gômon: Niizuma-hen

When a hapless man discovers his fiancé doing kinky things with another man he hires a SM mistress to teach him the finer points of bondage and discipline. Revenge will be his… at the end of a whip.

Looking for an Angel

Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's town, Kochi, which Takachi himself had visited just prior to dying. In Kochi, all boys seem to be angels.

Onna Jimuin: Shikijo Seikatsu

The reasonable happy life of an unmarried librarian goes to hell after she meets a pregnant young woman.

Antiporno

Young artist Kyoko wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters when Japan's oldest major movie studio asks a batch of venerable filmmakers to revive its high-brow soft-core Roman Porno series.