Movies: Moeko Ezawa

The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her......

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret....

In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes....

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...

A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization....

Here is a school that has never expelled a single student, believing in its children even after betrayal and betrayal after betrayal! Yoji (Yoichi Sase), the son of a doctor in Suwa, and Nobuko (Mayuki Kirihara), the daughter of a weaver in Kyoto, ar...

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each h...

An obscure Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie....

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Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade's wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led....

Nikkatsu Roman Porno, the second entry in the Maruhi Oo'oku Gaiden series. Recieving a mysterious foreign love potion, the Shogun's harem (or Oo'oku) becomes disordered; meanwhile a famous woman attempts to enter and seek revenge in the disguise of a...

A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money....

A gang of vicious thieves and rapists invades the isolated summer home of a wealthy but morally corrupt family....

The second half of the true story of Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan’s largest yakuza gang...

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town....

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There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with ...

Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go an...

A virginal vocational student who is curious about sex is educated by her more experienced classmate....

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud....