Akira comes to Kyushu to investigate the circumstances surrounding his father’s imprisonment more than 19 years ago. Read More »
Tag Archives: Tatsumi Kumashiro
The Inferno AKA Jigoku (1979) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mieko Harada, Kyôko Kishida, Ryûzô Hayashi
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper Read More »
Modori River AKA Modori-gawa (1983) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mariko Fuji, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mieko Harada
Gakuyo is a poet of tanka (Japanese verses comprising 31 syllables) and spends his days in the company of prostitutes. Read More »
Bedtime Eyes (1987) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Kanako Higuchi, Michael Wright, Michiyo Yasuda
Kim, a singer in a jazz club on a military base, has a partner, Ichiro Read More »
The Woman with Red Hair AKA Akai kami no onna (1979) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Junko Miyashita, Renji Ishibashi, Ako
At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss’ teenage daughter. Read More »
Bitterness of Youth AKA Seishun no satetsu (1974) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Kaori Momoi, Fumi Dan
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry. Read More »
Yakuza Goddess of Mercy: Mistress Jingi AKA Yakuza kannon: Iro Jingi (1973) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Jirô Okazaki, Nozomi Yasuda, Chizuyu Azami
Monk Seigen saves Misako the daughter of an area Yakuza boss from some tough guys. Read More »
Love Letter AKA Koibumi (1985) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Mitsuko Baishô, Keiko Takahashi
A spontaneous and youthfully careless painter and teacher Sh?ichi lives an ordinary family life Read More »
Black Rose Ascension (1975) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shin Kishida, Naomi Tani, Meika Seri
Shin Kishida stars as Juzo, a self-important pinku eiga director plainly modeled on Nagisa Oshima. Read More »
Misuta, Misesu, Misu Ronri / Mister, Misses, Miss Lonel (1980) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Mieko Harada, Ryûdô Uzaki, Rentarô Mikuni, Drama
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen. Read More »
Bô no kanashimi / Like a Rolling Stone (1994) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Eiji Okuda, Eiko Nagashima, Reiko Takashima, Crime, Drama
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects ‘protection money’ from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Read More »
Path of the Beast / Shoujo shofu: kemonomichi (1980) Tatsumi Kumashiro, Ayako Yoshimura, Minako Mizushima, Yûya Uchida, Drama, Erotic
Saki lives in a run-down hack with her mom who survives by pushing a food cart from dawn to dusk. Saki has dropped out of school, and when she’s not helping her mother selling noodles in the streets, she’s playing flesh-games with boyfriend Sotoo. In her spare time, the girl also entertains a truck driver named Ataru. She believes her promiscuity is a trait inherited from her mom. Determined to improve her lot in life (she doesn’t want to grow up like her mother), Saki decides to stop seeing the two guys. The sizzling Japanese Tatsumi Kumashiro’s erotic drama
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