Masahiro Kobayashi

Masahiro Kobayashi

Masahiro Kobayashi (小林 政広 Kobayashi Masahiro, born January 6, 1954) is a Japanese film writer and director. Kobayashi became the first Japanese filmmaker to win the Grand Prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. In its wake, he founded Monkey Town Productions and made three films back to back which won prizes in three consecutive years at Cannes: Kaizokuban Bootleg Film (1999) and Man Walking on Snow (2001) in Un Certain Regard and Koroshi (2000) in the Directors' Fortnight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Masahiro Kobayashi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Popularity: 3.073
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1954-01-06
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Koichi Kobayashi, 小林宏一
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Masahiro Kobayashi Movies

  • 2007
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    The Rebirth

    The Rebirth

    5.8 2007 HD

    Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he...

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  • 2008
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    Code Name: Melville

    Code Name: Melville

    6.7 2008 HD

    Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth...

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  • 2009
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    Where Are You?

    Where Are You?

    6.2 2009 HD

    A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...

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  • 2013
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    Strangers When We Meet

    Strangers When We Meet

    1 2013 HD

    The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The Rebirth (2007) and provides a sensitive observation of...

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  • 1999
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    Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

    Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

    5.9 1999 HD

    Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.

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  • 1999
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    Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

    Kaizokuban Bootleg Film

    5.9 1999 HD

    Two best friends—Tatsuo, a retiring Yakuza member, and Kiyoshi, a cop—travel to the funeral of a woman they both loved.

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  • 1987
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    Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara

    Roppongi Reijô: Fushidara

    4.5 1987 HD

    An aimless and lonely call girl becomes involved with a detective who is looking for a underage runaway.

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  • 2005
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    Bashing

    Bashing

    6 2005 HD

    Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko...

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  • 2005
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    Bashing

    Bashing

    6 2005 HD

    Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko...

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  • 2011
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    Women on the Edge

    Women on the Edge

    1 2011 HD

    Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.

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  • 2011
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    Women on the Edge

    Women on the Edge

    1 2011 HD

    Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.

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  • 2010
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    Haru's Journey

    Haru's Journey

    6.5 2010 HD

    Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

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  • 2010
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    Haru's Journey

    Haru's Journey

    6.5 2010 HD

    Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make.

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  • 2007
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    The Rebirth

    The Rebirth

    5.8 2007 HD

    Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he...

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  • 2002
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    Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

    Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

    6.4 2002 HD

    A girl named Ai gets a major record deal to sing a song written by a friend of hers who is deceased. However an obsessed stalker fan slowly starts...

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  • 2007
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    The Rebirth

    The Rebirth

    5.8 2007 HD

    Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he...

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  • 2012
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    Japan's Tragedy

    Japan's Tragedy

    7 2012 HD

    In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s...

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  • 2012
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    Japan's Tragedy

    Japan's Tragedy

    7 2012 HD

    In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s...

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  • 2000
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    Film Noir

    Film Noir

    7 2000 HD

    The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the...

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  • 2000
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    Film Noir

    Film Noir

    7 2000 HD

    The movie is absurd, and a thoroughly original take on the morale in Japanese society. The images are beautiful, and the people are as cold as the...

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  • 2009
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    Where Are You?

    Where Are You?

    6.2 2009 HD

    A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...

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  • 2009
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    Where Are You?

    Where Are You?

    6.2 2009 HD

    A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...

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  • 2009
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    Where Are You?

    Where Are You?

    6.2 2009 HD

    A sixteen year old boy, Ryo, experiences the painful ordeal of his mother being hospitalized and then dying. The boy turns to crime, but doesn't find...

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  • 1986
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    Za shōgeki

    Za shōgeki

    2 1986 HD

    A woman whose body and mind are worn out. A man who could never love a woman because of his distrust of his wife. The two people meet by chance and...

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  • 2013
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    Strangers When We Meet

    Strangers When We Meet

    1 2013 HD

    The minimalistically staged Strangers When We Meet displays similarities with Kobayashi's The Rebirth (2007) and provides a sensitive observation of...

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  • 1996
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    Closing Time

    Closing Time

    5 1996 HD

    A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is...

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  • 2019
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    The Return

    The Return

    8.8 2019 HD

    Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A...

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  • 2013
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    Strangers

    Strangers

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2001
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    Man Walking on Snow

    Man Walking on Snow

    5.7 2001 HD

    Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years...

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  • 2005
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    Flic

    Flic

    6.2 2005 HD

    Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

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  • 2006
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    The Happiness

    The Happiness

    1 2006 HD

    the story of a vagrant (Ishibashi) who arrives in a town in Hokkaido. With only a threadbare suit, an old pair of sneakers and a bag containing all...

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  • 2004
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    Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story

    Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story

    5.4 2004 HD

    Because of the desolate landscape, Kobayashi chose snow-covered Hokkaido (the most northern island of Japan) as the setting for Amazing Story, a...

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  • 2009
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    White Night

    White Night

    8 2009 HD

    Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...

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  • 2004
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    Tokyo Booty Nights

    Tokyo Booty Nights

    3.5 2004 HD

    Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him...

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  • 2001
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    Man Walking on Snow

    Man Walking on Snow

    5.7 2001 HD

    Mashike, a city on the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Nobuo Honma is a 63-year-old sake producer. He has lived with Yasuo since his wife died two years...

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  • 1999
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    New Apartment Complex Wife: Adultery is a Taste of Honey

    New Apartment Complex Wife: Adultery is a Taste of Honey

    3.5 1999 HD

    Asako and Tomoko, who live next door to each other in a certain apartment complex, are housewives who frequently chat with each other. Asako, who is...

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  • 2000
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    Apartment Wife: Adulterous Love

    Apartment Wife: Adulterous Love

    2.5 2000 HD

    Two wives who leave their husbands behind and go on a hot spring trip, and two husbands who play homosexual games because it's not fair for them to...

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  • 1999
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    The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games

    The Lustful Sister-in-Law 2: Erotic Games

    3.5 1999 HD

    Japanese pink film.

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  • 2009
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    White Night

    White Night

    8 2009 HD

    Fate brings a man and woman together in Lyon, France. They fall in love, but time is set to run out on them ...

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  • 1997
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    赤い欲情 はめ上手

    赤い欲情 はめ上手

    2 1997 HD

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  • 1999
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    Lusty Hot Spring

    Lusty Hot Spring

    1 1999 HD

    Kiriko is a beautiful woman working in a quiet hot spring town. The owner of the inn, Goro, is attracted to her beauty and asks her out, but she...

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  • 1997
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    赤い犯行 夢の後始末

    赤い犯行 夢の後始末

    1 1997 HD

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  • 2004
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    Déracine

    Déracine

    2 2004 HD

    A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the...

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  • 1994
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    Tandem

    Tandem

    4.4 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2017
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    Lear on the Shore

    Lear on the Shore

    6 2017 HD

    Kuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he's suspected to be suffering from dementia. He is betrayed by his older daughter, Yukiko, her...

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  • 2017
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    Lear on the Shore

    Lear on the Shore

    6 2017 HD

    Kuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he's suspected to be suffering from dementia. He is betrayed by his older daughter, Yukiko, her...

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  • 2017
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    Lear on the Shore

    Lear on the Shore

    6 2017 HD

    Kuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he's suspected to be suffering from dementia. He is betrayed by his older daughter, Yukiko, her...

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  • 1999
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    Drops of eros

    Drops of eros

    3.5 1999 HD

    Ito, a film director with no money and no woman, is agonizing every night over a violent love affair he hears from a neighbor who has recently moved...

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  • 1996
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    Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet

    Adultery Diary: One More Time While I'm Still Wet

    4 1996 HD

    Kumiko, who goes to a culture center with her husband's permission, has fallen prey to the instructor, Oikawa. Akiko, who also attends the same...

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  • 1997
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    Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet

    Lascivious Nurse Uniform Diary: Two or Three Times, While I'm Wet

    4.5 1997 HD

    A pink drama about a nurse who falls in love with a movie sound recorder.

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  • 1997
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    Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight

    Apartment Wife: Adultery in broad daylight

    4.5 1997 HD

    Asako, who has been married for eight years and has no children, is dissatisfied with her husband who comes home late every night, but she lives...

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  • 1998
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    My Brother's Lover

    My Brother's Lover

    4.5 1998 HD

    Kenji breaks up with his girlfriend and goes to stay with his brother, Ryosuke, who is married but is having an affair with a local waitress. It...

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  • 2001
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    New and impatient son-in-law, promiscuous relationship

    New and impatient son-in-law, promiscuous relationship

    3.5 2001 HD

    2001 pink drama.

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  • 2015
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    A Duel Tale

    A Duel Tale

    8 2015 HD

    Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up...

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  • 1993
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    Naomi

    Naomi

    1 1993 HD

    Tomoko and Naomi have had a lesbian relationship since their high school days. They meet again a few years later, and this film depicts the course of...

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  • 1990
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    Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts

    Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts

    2 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts

    Extremely Wild Genuine Sex: Night of the Perverts

    2 1990 HD

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  • 1996
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    Kawarasaki Family

    Kawarasaki Family

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1989
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    Woman of Dreams

    Woman of Dreams

    1 1989 HD

    Yoichi, who works for an advertising agency becomes heavily obsessed with a strange woman, things go unexpected, leading to a divorce and other...

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  • 1989
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    E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe

    E-Cup Real Action Take Two: Rich & Ripe

    7 1989 HD

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  • 1990
    imgMovies

    Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body

    Soaking Wet: Touching All Over the Body

    2 1990 HD

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  • 1993
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    Molester's Commuter Train: Office Ladys' Sexuality

    Molester's Commuter Train: Office Ladys' Sexuality

    2 1993 HD

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  • 1991
    imgMovies

    Abnormal Ecstasy

    Abnormal Ecstasy

    1 1991 HD

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  • 1996
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    Lunatic

    Lunatic

    1 1996 HD

    The sensual images depict the love and hatred between four men and women living together, creating a new kind of love story. One night, alcoholic...

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  • 1992
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    Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting

    Promiscuous Wife's Sexuality: Pleasure Hunting

    3 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    One Week

    One Week

    3 2000 HD

    Japanese pink film.

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  • 2005
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    Flic

    Flic

    6.2 2005 HD

    Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

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  • 2005
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    Flic

    Flic

    6.2 2005 HD

    Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

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  • 2005
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    Flic

    Flic

    6.2 2005 HD

    Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.

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  • 1995
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    Killing Angel Muhan

    Killing Angel Muhan

    7 1995 HD

    The story follows Muhan, the female assassin introduced in 1985's Dream Crimes, who was originally based on Takashi Ishii's manga character (unlike...

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  • 2004
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    Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story

    Perfect Education 5: Amazing Story

    5.4 2004 HD

    Because of the desolate landscape, Kobayashi chose snow-covered Hokkaido (the most northern island of Japan) as the setting for Amazing Story, a...

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  • 2007
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    The Rebirth

    The Rebirth

    5.8 2007 HD

    Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he...

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  • 2011
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    Women on the Edge

    Women on the Edge

    1 2011 HD

    Following the 2011 tsunami, three women reunite in the family home only to rekindle tense, ruinous relationships.

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  • 2000
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    One Week

    One Week

    3 2000 HD

    Japanese pink film.

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  • 1996
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    Closing Time

    Closing Time

    5 1996 HD

    A down-and-out scriptwriter spends his days and nights in the bars of Tokyo. When he is thrown out of a joint because it is closing time, there is...

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  • 2000
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    Endless Lust: Make Me Squirm!

    Endless Lust: Make Me Squirm!

    2 2000 HD

    Junichi is a drug dealer who has no place in society and wanders the streets. The only thing that makes him feel alive is running and sex. Kumiko is...

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  • 2005
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    Bashing

    Bashing

    6 2005 HD

    Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko...

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