Obscure Japanese Film #114 Ayako Wakao When high school student Fusae (Yoko Minamida) is excused from PE one day due to having her perio...
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A Dangerous Age / 続十代の性典 / Zoku judai no seiten (1953)
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Obscure Japanese Film #109 Mariko Okada Toho’s first feature film in full colour concerns the Ishii family, who live in the rural area of ...
The Insatiable (現代ポルノ伝 先天性淫婦, Norifumi Suzuki, 1971)
A young woman finds herself following in her mother’s footsteps after a series of traumatic sexual experiences in Norifumi Suzuki’s erotic drama.
Episode #50 – Lesson of the Evil (悪の教典)
Returning guest Jenn comes back for a chat about Takashi Miike’s 2012 thriller, Lesson of the Evil. Despite an interesting use of Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, it’s…
Crossroad (死の十字路, Umetsugu Inoue, 1956)
An adulterous industrialist’s life unravels after he accidentally kills his wife and tries to cover up the crime in Umetsugu Inoue’s gothic noir.
Kinuyo’s First Love (絹代の初恋, Hiromasa Nomura, 1940)
The changing social mores of the 1930s are played out in the fortunes of two sisters unwittingly falling for the same man in Hiromasa Nomura’s romantic drama.
アニメ業界の今とそのこれから – NAFCA代表ロングインタビュー
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A Son (二十歳の息子, Ryuichi Shimada, 2022)
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Nizo Yamamoto (1953-2023)
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An unhappily married woman contemplates independence but struggles to see herself as anything other than a “wife” in Naruse’s bitter marital drama
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor (十階のモスキート, Yoichi Sai, 1983)
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Motherhood (母性, Ryuichi Hiroki, 2022)
A mother and daughter find their relationship forever frustrated by the roles placed upon them in Ryuichi Hiroki’s adaptation of the Kanae Minato novel.
The Nineteen-Year-Old’s Map (十九歳の地図, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1979)
An alienated young man maps out moral failure and eases his sense of futility through empty threats of violence in Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s dark youth drama.
VICE SQUAD (1953) – The Real “Dragnet”
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Brother No More! #01 — Failing Sex Ed
Oops, all the budget went to the ED. Both this and Spy Room had an early broadcast on Abema. This took all day to show up. No idea…
Hito no Sex o Minagara Kangaeta: Tabusa Eiko
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The Stairway to the Distant Past (遙かな時代の階段を, Kaizo Hayashi, 1995)
Maiku Hama is forced into a confrontation with the legacies of his past along with those of the post-war era in the second part of Kaizo Hayashi’s noir…
While Yet a Wife / 妻の日の愛のかたみに / Tsuma no hi no ai no katamini (1965)
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Murder in the Hall of the Eye: The Book / 眼球堂の殺人 ~The Book~
Eye see you, heheheh… The best way I can describe Murder in the Hall of the Eye is “discount Hiroshi Mori .” Which on one hand…
Sex and Fury
不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶 Norifumi Suzuki, 1973 L ast time I went to Japan I had the good fortune to meet a very interesting man who was…
Haibara’s Teenage New Game+, Vol. 4
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First Thoughts on Teenage Renaissance! David
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Haibara’s Teenage New Game+, Vol. 5
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Teenage Renaissance! David (Ft. Shaun Rollins)
It’s hard being a teenager. It’s even harder when you look like Michelangelo’s The David. We and Shaun Rollins from Anime Out of Context discuss Yuushin Kuroki’s Shonen…
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Haibara’s Teenage New Game+, Vol. 6
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Haibara’s Teenage New Game+, Vol. 3
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Haibara’s Teenage New Game+, Vol. 1
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Haibara’s Teenage New Game+, Vol. 2
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Japan’s Sex Industry and the Problem of Sex Slavery
Japan’s sex industry exists because of the narrow definition of prostitution found in the 1956 law that ended licensed prostitution in Japan. Namely, the law defines sex as…
Ani-Gamers Book Club #18 – JK Haru is a Sex Worker in Another World: Summer
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Sex and Fury (不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶, Norifumi Suzuki,1973)
An orphaned daughter takes revenge against the corruptions of the late Meiji society in Norifumi Suzuki’s pinky violence classic.
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A strange spirit of sexual liberation visits three troubled couples in Kota Yoshida’s odyssey of food-themed eroticism.
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