Life Cycles

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

When a tough yakuza gangster is betrayed by his bosses, it means all out war. Bodies pile up as he takes out everyone in his way to the top in a brutal quest for revenge.

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.

Set towards the end of World War II, Nomura (Masatoshi Nagase) is a writer who is in despair. A woman works in bar and is a former prostitute. Many years ago, her father sold her to a brothel due to the family's severe financial hardships. The writer and the woman then agree to live as husband and wife until the war ends. The woman doesn't feel sexual pleasures due to her past, while the man lusts for the woman's body. Meanwhile, Ohira (Jun Murakami) fought for Japan in China. He participated in unconscionable acts against civilians in the name of war. He returns to Japan with only one arm. Ohira then begins to prey on innocent women.

After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.

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.

Minori is a head-strong photographer who is romantically involved with Kushida, her editor. On a photography assignment she gets into an argument with her subject, Ageha, a female erotic manga artist who, like Minori, is 30 and single. Shin'ichi, the journalist on the assignment, receives most of the blame for the failure of the project. Minori sleeps with Shin'ichi, then discovers that her own position is not as secure as she thought, when she suspects that Kushida is also involved with Ageha. The series of events causes Minori to reconsider her own lifestyle.

Yuki is hunger and dreams to become a great star. Although she joins a talent company to train herself, she gets no improvement as all her job is not directly related to any acting role. When she feels upset and disappointed about her future, her company requests her to join a T-Back Water Game from a TV station. At the same time, Yuki is broken up with her boyfriends. What will happen in the T-Back Water Game?

Keita and Kasumi, and Jin and Emi, were seeing each other again for the first time in a long time at a mutual acquaintance's wedding. They had all known each other since before their marriages, and their initial encounters were also related to each other. However, Emi and Keita were actually an adulterous couple who had been having an affair since before their marriages.

Kosuke Sakamaki is a super veteran groper. He's a real pro. On his way to his junior colleague Bunkichi's house to ask for money, Sakamaki gropes him as usual, but the sensation is different than usual. He finally meets the woman he's been looking for. However, he arrives at the station he was aiming for and reluctantly breaks up with her...

Takuya lost his mother at a young age, and his father, Kazuhiko, remarried a woman named Junko—who was significantly younger—when Takuya was in high school. Kazuhiko passed away from illness four years ago, and Takuya had been living alone with Junko ever since. One day, Takuya brought his fiancée, Misaki, home to introduce her to Junko...

The elder sister of the Tsuboi sisters, Chiaki, is a shy and unemployed woman, and her younger sister, Konatsu, worries about her. Meanwhile, Konatsu is a flamboyant and headstrong woman who works as a flyer model. The two of them then enter a crowded train...

Joji, a nouveau riche womanizer, has returned home after completing a round-the-world yacht voyage. Joji has a son, Hiromi, a civil servant, from his previous marriage. A married woman named Ruriko appears before Hiromi and Joji. Despite being married, Ruriko seduces the single, upright Hiromi. Furthermore, she begins a relationship with Joji, who scolds her for this...

Reiko, a school nurse, is caught in a lingering, ambiguous relationship with her colleague, Hiromichi. One day, while Reiko is indulging in masturbation in the infirmary after school, Shunji from the baseball team walks in. She seduces him—noticing the bulge in his trousers—and...

Yuya, who harbors a secret longing for Kyoko—his friend's younger sister Yumi's tutor and their stepmother—steals a pair of Kyoko's panties under the pretext of using the restroom. However, Yumi witnesses the act, and he finds himself being blackmailed.