Chigusa Takayama — Actor (17)
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Lusty Sisters (1972)
色情姉妹 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Chūsei Sone actor: Akemi Nijo / Keiko Tsuzuki …
other title: 色情姉妹 / 色情姐妹
Three sisters live alienated existences in modern day Tokyo. One works as a secretary, one is a prostitute, and one is a criminal. The secretary is cynically unhappy with the sexist business world which limits her opportunities for advancement and makes her a target for her lecherous boss. The prostitute lives an aimless life, drifting between men, and often the target of either police or jealous wives. The criminal, who lives by disrupting the society which oppresses her two sisters, is the only happy one of the three.
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Nun in Rope Hell (1984)
団鬼六 修道女縄地獄 IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 5.1 8 ratings
藤井克彦 actor: 高仓美贵 / 小川亚佐美 …
other title: 团鬼六：修道女绳地狱 / 団鬼六 修道女縄地獄 …
A woman gets caught by the wife of her lover which results in a stabbing. Feeling guilty she runs away and joins a nunnery. But she soon discovers that several nuns and a well known author have turned the place into their own personal S&M playground.
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Wife to Be Sacrificed (1974)
生贄夫人
★ 7.4 7 ratings
Masaru Konuma actor: Naomi Tani / Nagatoshi Sakamoto …
other title: 供品夫人 / 生贄夫人 …
A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.
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Kagi (1974)
鍵 Douban
神代辰巳 actor: 观世荣夫 / 荒砂由纪 …
other title: 键 / 鍵
大学教授（観世栄夫 饰）年事渐高，体力和精力渐渐匮乏。与之相对，他的老婆郁子（荒砂ゆき 饰）则正值青春盛年。教授回首过望，感叹妻子的保守和夫妻生活的单调，他将真实想法写入日记，并有意让郁子看到，希望以此唤醒妻子蓬勃的欲望。某日，女儿敏子（渡辺督子 饰）的朋友木村（河原崎建三 饰）来访，教授刻意让木村和郁子独处，让嫉妒激发了自己渐渐消失的欲望和能力。这片刻重焕青春的错觉令教授更加沉迷其中，他的危险游戏不断升级，妻子在这一过程中逐渐从被动转为主动。为了虚幻的极乐，教授全然不顾身家性命…… 本片根据日本官能作家谷崎润一郎的同名原作改编。
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Luminous Woman (1987)
光る女 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Shinji Sōmai actor: Keiji Muto / Narumi Yasuda …
other title: 闪光的女人 / 光る女 …
A burly man from the wilds of Hokkaido arrives in Tokyo on the trail of his fiancée, but meets a nightclub diva who has lost the ability to sing, and the two find themselves drawn to each other... This unconventional love story employs powerful imagery in a daring attempt to visualize the contrast between people who live in concert with nature, and those who live in urbanized civil society.
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My Second Brother (1959)
にあんちゃん WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.1 10 ratings
Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Kazuko Yoshiyuki …
other title: 二哥 / にあんちゃん …
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.
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Our Wedding (1983)
俺っちのウエディング WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
根岸吉太郎 actor: Saburo Tokito / Yoshiko Miyazaki …
other title: 我们的婚礼 / 俺っちのウエディング …
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. The attacker is thought to be an ex-girlfriend of Tsutomu, the groom. He gives two names to the police but these two are still alive. But there is still one woman in Tsutomu's mind...
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A Taxing Woman (1987)
マルサの女 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.8 17 ratings
伊丹十三 actor: 宫本信子 / 山崎努 …
other title: 女税务官 / マルサの女 …
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)
幕末太陽伝 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 7.9 47 ratings
川岛雄三 actor: 弗兰克堺 / 左幸子 …
other title: 막말태양전 / 幕末太陽傳 …
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.