Takaaki Hashiguchi

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect that he may in fact be the assailant. But her own strange erotic fixations with him, and the questionable involvement of the doctor tasked with the amnesia victim, lead them all down an increasingly twisted path of deeply-rooted trauma and violence.

The basement of the house where sculptor Takai lives. This is the studio where he creates his works. Yoko, an art critic, is tied up and hung from the ceiling by Takai. Takai beats Yoko's supple naked body with a whip. Yoko feels a perverse pleasure in the pain.

Following cosmetic surgery to enhance her breasts, an office worker is raped. The rapist's son, after setting his distinctly Oedipal gaze on his father's busty victim, locates her and they begin an ill-fated sadomasochistic affair that leads to a bloody killing spree.

1615. Ninja Sarutobi Sasuke is assigned the task of finding a hidden treasure that will restore his clan to their full power. However, sexy ninja warrior Kagero stands in Sasuke's way. Complications ensue when a sudden time warp occurs and both Sasuke and Kagero find themselves thrust hundreds of years into the future to Tokyo, Japan in 1984.

High school student Kozue spreads flyers in search of her missing classmate. A psychopath lures her to his place, where he imprisons her. The psychopath gets his kicks by raping his victims with a chrome vibrator, poisoning them then photographing them as they die. However, when Kozue doesn’t act like his typical victims they start up a strange and twisted relationship.

The mother does half-nude aerobics until her son rapes her, and the daughter falls into bed with a female teacher. Despite the shocking goings-on, the film is much more in keeping with Sato's usual themes of alienation and corrupted innocence than its brutal predecessor.

An investigation into a videotape that shows the results of a brutal murder committed using a knife-equipped camera.

An office lady encounters a bank robbery in progress while at the bank to extend the repayment of a loan for her lover. In the ensuing panic, she steals her loan book but is kidnapped by the robbers as they escape. Her life soon becomes a living hell.

A sullen horny student stalks female students in the endless hallways of a desolate high school with a video camera. But are his violent and abusive recordings fantasies or reality?

The person who protected me from those perverts was my judo teacher. I used to be a lesbian, but now I'm in a judo uniform and going wild! A battle of women unfolds in the judo club! My opponent was my teacher! My body tingles at the touch of his crotch, a grappling battle filled with hot breaths!

A depressed private detective who spends his days digging through love hotel trash for his cases meets a free spirited young woman who lives next door.

The chairman of a yakuza gang is murdered, and it is thought to be the work of a rival organization, but it is actually the work of a subordinate gang leader. The gang leader, who was addicted to S&M, was driven to his liking to drink the urine of the chairman's daughter, "Rinko," and drove the inconvenient father to his death. When the executives found out, they were at a loss and consulted their sworn brother, Nozawa. In order to fulfill the wish of the gang leader, who is hovering between life and death from a stroke, they decide to kidnap the chairman's daughter and train her to become a sex slave.

Eiji, a teenager eager to follow in his late father's scientific footsteps perfects one of his old experiments to diminish the barrier between pain and pleasure.

A quirky doctor and his frisky nurse operate the Ogenki clinic, helping patients solve their peculiar sexual problems. Their methods may be unconventional but the special techniques they use will have patients feeling good in no time.

After her husband dies, Aiko becomes the caretaker of an old apartment she inherited from him. By chance, her high school classmates Kaoru and Miyuki live in the apartment. Both are widows and each has a boyfriend. Then Toru and Ikuko, a couple, move into the apartment. Ikuko is a detective, and Toru is in charge of housework and sex. Since Toru's arrival, the three widows have had many worries. To make matters worse, a surprising truth is hidden about the man who is pursuing Aiko and Kaoru and Miyuki's boyfriend...

An animator with a butt fixation receives a surprise visit from a woman he had an affair with while in Brazil. But a switched suitcase at a traffic backup and a goofy gang of criminals tests their relationship.

Not long after Yoko and Arthur move into their new house, they notice that many strange things happen here. Yoko begins seeing ghosts and suspects that the house is haunted. Yoko enlists the help of a police detective, who knows the house has a dark, secret past.

When the all-girl gang, The Bombers, kidnap a man to use as their personal sex slave, S&M Hunter accepts the mission to infiltrate The Bombers' hideout and show them the ropes.

Detective Inspector Tenma Ippei and his girlfriend, female detective Date Mari, were working together to track down a brother and sister, Kyoichi, Kyoji, and Kyoko, who were serial rapists and murderers. They broke into a hospital, raped and murdered a nurse, and continued their crimes one after another, including gang-raping Tenma's partner, Misaki, before brutally murdering him along with Tenma when he arrived. Mari was dismissed from her job, but vowed revenge for Tenma and began acting on her own...

Special female detective Hanyu Asuka, codenamed 348 (Sashiba), receives a secret mission from the police commissioner to solve the blackmail case involving a genius Famicom designer. As Asuka continues her investigation, she discovers that Hayami, a gangster, is the culprit. However, after a gunfight, Hayami escapes, and a few days later, policewomen are killed one after another, as if in retaliation for Asuka...

A magazine reporter is told to investigate the murder of a young man with ties to the gay S&M scene.

A high school girl searches for a treasure found by her lost father in a school full of peepers and perverts.

The Slit-Mouthed Woman is a striking example of Pink Cinema that mixes horror with eroticism in a way that is both unsettling and genuinely original. A young couple enter a hospital after rumours that a demonic spirit known as the slit mouthed woman had been seen there. Once inside, they are possessed by an overwhelming desire to have sex and sneak off into an empty room to satiate their lusts. Then out of the darkness a perverse and disfigured woman appears and confronts them.The Slit-Mouthed Woman, a.k.a Kuchisake, is an original hybrid of pink erotica and horror from the controversial J-sploitation director Takuaki Hashiguchi whose previous films include the disturbingly nasty Woman Prisoner Torture. The Slit-Mouthed Woman features impressive special make-up effects from Takashi Oda, who worked alongside the acclaimed actor/director Beat Takeshi Kitano on his Yakuza action film Sonatine.