Category III: The Untold Story of Hong Kong Exploitation Cinema (2018)

Love, Antosha

From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, this film looks not just at Anton's impressive career, but at a broader portrait of the man.

Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Happy as Lazzaro

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Woman in the Dunes

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

The Nutty Professor

A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.

The Seventh Continent

Chronicles three years of a middle class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, only troubled by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence however, they are actually planning something sinister.

American Gigolo

Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him.

Two Women

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Satantango

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Bonanza: The Return

A man with a grudge against the late Little Joe seeks revenge on the Cartwrights and attempts to take over the Ponderosa.

Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Annie Hall

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

The Killers

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

L'Argent

A forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is—which will have devastating consequences on his life.

Return of the Jedi

Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.

Late Spring

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughter and sacrifice his own happiness to do what he believes is right.

Dolls

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.

The War Zone

An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.

Criminal Lovers

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.

Equinox Flower

Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.

American Movie

American Movie is the story of filmmaker Mark Borchardt, his mission, and his dream. Spanning over two years of intense struggle with his film, his family, financial decline, and spiritual crisis, American Movie is a portrayal of ambition, obsession, excess, and one man's quest for the American Dream.

Ivan's Childhood

In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.

Monsieur Verdoux

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Trail of the Pink Panther

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

Leave Her to Heaven

A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.

For a Few Dollars More

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

Kiss Me Deadly

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Return to Horror Hotel

Return to Horror Hotel is an anthology feature with 4 segments. One is about giant a bedbugs, one is about a magical charm that turns girls beautiful, one is about a WWII sailor who hasn't aged and one is about a terrorizing severed hand.

Critters 4

A super strain of genetically engineered mutants are designed to take over the universe, hungry to conquer the galaxy, with an appetite for mankind.

Beau Travail

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

The Lady from Shanghai

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Faraway, So Close!

Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more and more dissatisfied with his destiny as a mere observer of human life and finally decides to take the great leap. As Karl Engel he soon gets into a dubious milieu and finds himself as the assistant of the German American Baker, who makes his money with shady arms deals and sends films east in exchange for weapons. Cassiel’s adventure turns into a “thriller” when he decides to put a stop to Baker’s game.

Apur Sansar

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding.

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines

After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to retrieve the map. The map is useless without the legend piece to decipher it, which is located in Volubilis near the Roman ruins in Morocco. Flynn heads to Casablanca to the ruins where he is chased by a group of mercenaries leaded by General Samir. They too want to find the location of King Solomon's mines. Flynn teams-up with Professor Emily Davenport working in the dig and they escape from General Samir and his men. While traveling to Gedi, they save the local Jomo from death and the trio faces a dangerous journey through the wild Africa.

My Darling Clementine

Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.

That's Roman Porno: Smile of Goddesses

A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988.

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.

Afternoon Affair: Transformation

A young boy’s dream of a woman is entrusted to the love of a flower. When that beautiful flower withers and the boy discovers the ugliness of women’s true nature, he vows revenge.

Devil Angel

Chi Kit worked in a stock company. One day, the stock market crashed and Chi Kit ran into bankruptcy. He called his girlfriend Siu Suen and told her everything. Siu Suen loved Chi Kit so much that she took all her savings and ran away with him to Singapore to hide away from their debts. Unfortunately, Chi Kit met a wealthy woman with an interesting proposal, and it changed everything.

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.

Wife Collector

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.

Fatal Love

After being thrown out of the police academy, Debbie Fung (Ellen Chan) gets a new chance but instead the proposition is to go undercover. Accepting the mission to get close to tycoon Lau Fuk Tin (Michael Wong) as he's suspected of a number of murders of women, under the disguise of Maryanne, Debbie quickly gets close to Lau. Going so far as getting almost permanent residence with the man, Debbie witness horrific things on the grounds. Despite, affection starting to develop towards her target.

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.

Hot staff: Kaikan sex kurinikku

One day, a man who is sexually impotent (only with his wife) ends up switching places with a sex counselor who looks exactly like him. Depicts a "love story" between husbands and wives with a lot of twists and turns.

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.

Hitozuma bōkō manshon

Koichi and Mariko are a married couple. Both husband and wife have their own careers. Koichi is a civil servant who returns home on time, while Mariko returns home late at night, leaving their love life cold.

Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop

A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As the younger sister fends off advances from her brother-in-law the older sister has a rather strange and kinky encounter with the cooking show host she idolizes.

Nozoki

An old married couple with bedroom problems become upset over the sexual antics of their daughter and a visiting randy couple. But then the part-time lovers of the couple show up and complications ensue.

Rape Ceremony

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.

Maruhi ama Report: Monzetsu

A romantic porn film directed by Yukihiko Kondo, director of "Iroki Ooku Secret Story: 100 Tattoos Competition." Tadashi is a pimp who is a shy stripper. When he learns that she is traveling to a diver village, he sneaks into the village as a pimp and catches the eye of Hiroko, a fit-looking young woman. Starring Rie Tachibana.

Erotic Train

Kyoko, discovering that her husband was having an affair, turns to her best friend for help.

Fûzoku zukan: Yare nai otoko-tachi

It is the last night of the Heisei era. Rokuo, who lives in the employee dormitory of a local brothel, is visited by Yoshio, his senior, and they engage in a silly conversation.

Kahanshin Shôkôgun

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Nurse Girls' Dorm: Shamed Angel

A hospital welcomes its newest nursing addition, Yukari (Tomomi Segawa), who gets to stay in the first-year dorm on campus where having a man over will get you punished with a heavy hosing ("You dirty animals, stop resisting!"). Her rapport with her fellow nurses is put to the test when she ignores warnings and becomes involved with the head surgeon, Dr. Muraoka, who turns out to have a sinister side including a penchant for non-consensual sex and inappropriate use of cooking ingredients.

Koichiro Uno's Up and Down

A frustrated married woman has to deal with her husband's frequent business trips. One day, she decides to turn her home into a boarding house to attract young men.

Kōshoku hana densha

After a man racks up a huge debt, his wife and his father are “persuaded” to perform together in a sex show in order to pay it off.

The Love That is Wrong

Amy and Ann are a lesbian couple but their relationship gets disrupted when Amy falls in love with her male office colleague named Wang. As Amy spends more and more time with Wang Ann feels that she has lost Amy to Wang and develops a hatred towards men.....a hatred that will lead her to kill.

Days of Lust: Ecstasy

Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair.

Watashi no naka no shōfu

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Onna kyōshi o hagu

A lonely high school teacher accidentally discovers another teacher having sex with a student in an empty classroom. The excitement of watching the two of them ignites erotic sensations deep inside her. But she is caught watching…

Nôsatsu Waka-okami: Iroppoi Koshitsuki

Hanako Kitamura, a delivery health girl who was deceived by a marriage scammer Nobuo Takada and lost her sentence, rolled into a udon shop run by Kazuyoshi Minowa and went to Banda at this shop. Allowed to work as a resident with Rei. Hanako behaves with her own brightness and becomes a popular udon restaurant. Around the same time, Minowa's friend Takanori Gomi continues to worry about the bookstore he runs. Takashi holding his wife Akane decides to close the store. Kazuyoshi gives a farewell to Takashi and Akane who are leaving their hometown to revive. On the other hand, Hanako, who works steadily at the store, fell in love with a serious and gentle sense. Kazuyoshi also began to be aware of bright Hanako. One night, Kazuyoshi confesses to Hanako that his only daughter, Sachi Sudo, is there. Because Kazuyoshi strongly opposed the marriage of Sachi and Kenji, Sachi became with Kenji as if he were running away from home.

Zankoku! Shōjo tarento

After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her boyfriend.

Nokezoru onna

A female prisoner escapes from the law but she can’t escape from her carnal desires.

Wakazuma kannō kurabu: zetchō yūgi

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Body Insurance: Sign on The Bed

In this outrageously erotic whirlwind, Mai ditches financial drudgery by diving into the sultry world of insurance seduction. Under the provocative tutelage of the debonair Fuyumi, she’s pushed to flaunt every inch of her tantalizing fertile body, using wild, over-the-top allure and sexual shenanigans to seal scandalous deals. Her steamy exploits escalate into an intense orgy of forbidden passion, targeting the irresistible female CEO with a dizzying blend of temptation and debauchery. As rival seductions clash and bizarre, masked deviant encounters add shock-value to the mix, every signature becomes a brazen vulgar climax—a wild, unapologetic celebration of lust, sex, defiance, and pure, over-exaggerated carnal ecstasy.

Waisetsuna onna: kuroi hada ni naku

A married couple, Fumio Asakura and Kumiko, enjoyed having pleasure in each other by taking pictures during sex. Kumiko met her old friend from school, Fuko because her husband went on a business trip for three days. They go to a disco in Tachikawa and are almost attacked by three young Japanese. Fuko calls on a black man named Bill, who lives close to Kumiko...

Yami ni dakarete

Mieko and Ayako and are roommates. Ayako is having an affair with a married man. But when the affair is discovered Ayako runs away to commit suicide. Mieko and the married man go in search of her hoping to find her before it’s too late.

Bijo reipu-gari

Reiko Nozawa, Shizue Sakamoto, Emi Kato, and Takashi Toda went mountain climbing. Takashi was in a love triangle with Emi and Shizue. Shortly after setting up camp by the river, Emi witnesses Takashi and Shizue having sex. She ran into the woods. But suddenly, she is attacked by someone...

Porno: Chan-chaka-chan

Mysterious aliens help a salaryman and his boss with their problems in bed.