A sensual drama that carefully examines the crossroads faced by an elderly man who has had a spectacular career with women. Director Yutaka Ikejima, who also plays the lead role, skillfully portrays the sadness of a popular man's old age while performing various erotic scenes himself, and this is a good film that won the Top 10 Pink Award. Ezaki (Yutaka Ikeshima) was asked to divorce his wife Kumi (Satomi Shinozaki) on the day he retired due to cheating, and his partner introduces him to his friend Kaori (Yuna Kawamura), but her mother... ・Etsuko (Ayumi Taguchi) and her younger sister Yayoi (Kyoko Hashimoto) are former mistresses, and when they reunite, they develop a strange friendship.
Noriko woke up from the bed she was sleeping alone. My husband Akio has been sexless for 3 years. One day, when Rie, who she met in a yoga class, invites her to a bar where she works, Noriko happens to meet Naruse, who was a high school classmate.
Satsuki, a wife who was suffocating in life with her husband who worked from home, returned to her parents' home in Kumamoto for the first time in a while.
After her painful breakup with Koharu, Saaya settles down with a new girlfriend but is dumped once again when her partner realizes she still has feelings for Koharu.
On Gacchan’s birthday, a wild night in Shinjuku turns into a whirlwind for him and Takayuki, testing their love after a careless mistake and a heated confrontation.
Saaya, a Girls Love comic artist, works tirelessly on her latest story “Maaya and Chiharu,” in which she draws one of the titular characters based on Koharu, a childhood friend from her hometown with whom she fell in love with.
Yukari, a visiting nurse, is a gentle and cute angel in a white coat. Popular from old people to young people, she had a special skill called "Asunaro Special," which borrowed the name of the organization.
After her dreams are broken in Tokyo, Aiko returns to her hometown in the countryside. Choosing not to live at her parents’ home, she rents an apartment and begins working part-time at a bowling alley.
Popular movie trailers from 1996
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Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf claims to have never seen a movie before making his first film. Doubtful as it sounds, this boast matches perfectly with the controversial artist's personae.
Military doctor Kwiatkowski, serving in a barracks hospital on the Western Territories, is rewarded with a week’s leave after successfully operating on Colonel Kiziora of the UB.
An old tango singer tries to contact his teenage son. A woman who is death or the Devil appears to him and asks him to sell his soul to connect with his son again.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts.
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