Angel in September

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.

A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.

A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

An urban love story set on the hard streets of the Bronx. A struggling female pimp, named Wednesday, grows up learning the game from her dad. Once he's gone she's left to look out for her prostitute mother and girlfriend Nikki.

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

A teenager faces an uphill battle when she fights to give women the opportunity to play competitive soccer.

In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.

A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.

Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

A fast talking, money stealing, gambling, womanizing low level yakuza bum takes advantage of a bar owner’s virgin daughter. But even after he does the right thing his bad habits don’t change.

A high school girl gets into trouble when she takes on a part-time job as a substitute bride. At the wedding hall, she runs away with a man just before the ceremony, and ended up involved in a kidnapping ransom of 20,000,000 yen.

This routine effort from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato centers around a divorcée who opens a beauty parlor and begins selling sexual services to boost her business.

Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.

Although its title indicates three personalities, the heroine of cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato’s downbeat multiple-personality tale actually exhibits four, going from loving wife to crazed slut to insane child to depressed adolescent. As usual, Sato fills the film with alienation, kinky sex, and psychological subplots.

One of legendary "pink" director Hisayasu Sato's first of over 50 examinations of love and sex among the dregs of society, this downbeat picture deals with a sleazy rapist (Taketoshi Watari) who starts a doomed romance with a sullen teenage reject.

A young woman loves airplanes, and while working part-time at a coffee shop at a local airport, she dreams of one day being free to fly. She lives a simple and fulfilling life with her colleagues at the airport, although she is by no means wealthy. One day, the wealthy men that leave their private Cessnas at the airport call out to her, saying that if she likes airplanes so much, they will give her a ride...

A lonely wife has a love affair with the newly widowed neighbor while her husband is away on business.

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.

A man and woman meet when he pulls her out of an icy fountain that she has just jumped into. But their developing romance is marred by bad friends, money troubles and illegal sex work.

The story is about Nagatoshi, a handsome and sexy monk played by Kazuhiro Sano, who is struggling for the widow he loves. Foreshadowing the prophecy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the film is a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle that depicts the human condition of a downtown area undergoing development and the efforts of men and women who rebel against it.

A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.

No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.

16-year-old Tachiko (Kimiko Asuka) discovers the true nature of her father's wife, Fumie (Michiko Sakyo), who is after the fortune of the company president, Gozo (Keisuke Senda), and recommends divorce to him, but she is kidnapped and her virginity is stolen by Hayata (Ryoichi Amano) who is colluding with Fumie. After the funeral for her father, who committed suicide out of pity for his daughter, Tachiko disappears.

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.

Wandering “Saoshi”, Kikunosuke Kagurazaka cures frustrated women with his sexual technique. He comes across a man called Ishida, an owner of an adult entertainment complex in Kabukicho. Ishida controls girls using erotic hypnosis and makes them work as prostitutes. Kikunosuke, who has been looking for missing Rie, finds out that Rie is working under Ishida. Rie is one of the victims under the erotic hypnosis. Kikunosuke challenges Rie in sex battle and successfully brings her to her senses by his sexual technique “Kinuta”. Then he finds out Ishida’s dark past. Kikunosuke beards Ishida who reigns over Kabukicho. One after another, Ishida sends out his girls to put kikunoske under his spell in vain. Kikunosuke wields his technique and leads them all to ecstasy. Who would be the final challenger? Who would be the last man standing, Ishida or Kikunosuke?

Nobue, a reporter, wanders around Osaka's red-light district in search of the legendary soapland girl Miiko in order to write an article about her. When Nobue finds Miiko working in Tobita Shinchi, he ends up peeking at her play from inside the closet...

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.

A woman works as a nude model for vinyl books. She breaks up with her cameraman, and starts living with a cute male university student. One day, she goes to the supermarket to buy a change of lingerie for a shoot, but realizes she doesn't have the money, so she shoplifts. There, she meets a middle-aged man that also shoplifts. She goes out drinking with the middle-aged man because of their affinity, and they end up in bed. The two start dating. The woman decides to invite the middle-aged man to her room because she thinks the two-way relationship between a college student and a middle-aged man is fun. When the two men run into one another, they are surprised. It turns out they are father and son! From there, the strange cohabitation of the three begin... And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

The owner of a small roadside restaurant tries to arrange a marriage to a young woman who she adopted. But the woman falls for a truck driver who is in trouble with the yakuza.