Okiku lives in a tenement row house in the sprawling city of Edo. There, she cares for her father, whom she supports by teaching children in a temple school. Yasuke and his newly recruited partner, Chuji, regularly visit the tenement to collect the human manure from the outhouse. Okiku takes a sp...

Inside his secret workshop, a psychotic retired swordsman creates lanterns made from the human skin of his enemies’ sisters, mistresses and wives.

A depraved Sung Dynasty lothario, who already has one wife and three concubines, resorts to murder and bribery in order to satisfy his sexual whims and conquer the objects of his desire.

Semret is an Eritrean single mother who works at a local Zurich hospital and is studying to become a midwife. But when her now teenage daughter Joe begins to ask questions about her origins, she must confront the tragic memories of her past and relive her traumas as a refugee.

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Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, and Gong LI star in Chen Kaige's adaptation of Lilian Lee's epic novel set against the backdrop of the Peking Opera.

It’s not Interpol, it's Asia-pol, a law enforcement agency somewhere between the police and Her Majesty's Secret Service. Jimmy Wang Yu stars as a down and dirty secret agent battling against homicidal Japanese gold smugglers amidst femme fatales, damsels-in-distress and erotic strip tease artists.

In postwar Japan a neighborhood is nearly torn apart when a Korean gang tries to take over the local market until a tough doctor steps in. Tai Kato’s groundbreaking feature tackles controversial issues with a blend of melodrama and action.

As the police investigate a rash of brutal murders, the unscrupulous killer’s murky motivations remain elusive. A labyrinthine character study slowly unfolds implying that the targets of these attacks may be culpable in their own demise.

Four women with very different life stories come together at Girl's Blood, a members-only, illegal mixed martial arts league in Roppongi, where the participants dress up in unique cosplay and fight each other in brutal cage matches.

Amid the cultural upheaval of the late 1960s, Russ Meyer transcended the sexploitation genre by crafting this "bosomacious melodrama" (Time Magazine) about racism, communism, bush pilots and draft dodgers.

Russ Meyer returns to his camp roots in this "sort of sequel" to his 1968 wildly successful hit Vixen. When a hot-blooded wife and a psychotic cop come together, it ignites a cross-country odyssey of violence, vengeance and relentless coitus.

The final feature produced, photographed, edited and directed by Russ Meyer is a wicked take on Our Town that presents an unwashed look at Small Town USA, complete with faith healers, war criminals, bosom buddies and the quest for sexual salvation.

Explore the unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, a director of Italian B-movies and the screenwriter of Sergio Corbucci's Django. An unsung provocateur, Vivarelli was the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card and was one of the key...

Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a new life. Nana suffers in silence until the day she meets one of her husband’s mistresses and everything changes.

Mateo and his mother Lili (Ángela Molina) have been inseparable for years. But when Lili is diagnosed with a fatal illness, their toxic mother-son relationship is taken to extreme ends.

A lifelong Yakuza, released from prison after 13 years, goes in search of the mother who abandoned him as a child while struggling to adapt to his new life outside of prison.

Legends are born and dreams become reality in three tales centering around an ancient Ming Dynasty brothel that steam with erotic myths, secret trysts and romantic twists of fate.

Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters apart across the Israeli border wall. After their son is injured, a 200 meter distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey. Mustafa must attempt to smuggle himself to the other side of the wall.

Tang Dynasty emperors, Ming Dynasty scholars, assorted fortune tellers and Buddhist monks inhabit a trio of erotic and mystical Chinese legends.

Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. Her heritage makes her someone who has been “twice colonized” – first by European settlers and then by modern-day Canadian policies and institutions.

Marla and Simone are madly in love and have a very passionate relationship. They are also struggling to get by and are unable to pay the rent. Fortunately, they have a solution: starring in their own pornographic videos.

Kidnapped and forced to work in Madam Chun's Merryland brothel, the beautiful Ai Nu tries to resist her captors but soon learns what to takes in order to survive.

The beautiful Ainu is abducted and sold off to the popular Four Seasons brothel run by a lusty madam, who falls for her nubile charms and entrusts her with martial arts secrets. Soon murder erupts within their ranks, and a detective must race against time to prevent a vicious revenge plot.

The gold medal dreams of Czech high diver Andrea Absolonová are shattered when she suffers a devastating spinal injury while training for the Olympics. Forced to leave the sport she loves, she reinvents herself as adult actress Lea De Mae.