Summer Girls: Himegoto

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (パーfectブルー 夢なら醒めて, Pāfekuto Burū: Yume Nara Samete) is a 2002 Japanese psychological thriller film directed by Toshiki Satō and adapted from the novel of the same name by Yoshikazu Takeuchi. The story centers on Ai, a teen pop idol transitioning to a recording career, whose life unravels amid fixation from a obsessive convenience store clerk, leading to themes of distorted self-perception, narcissistic delusions, and violent events.

A young couple in love prepares to marry, but--contrary to the popular stereotype--the woman develops a classic case of "cold feet" and seeks the advice of an older man. In no position to offer solid counsel since his own marriage is failing, he instead allows her to seduce him.

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift from stores while she works as a prostitute. She strikes up a relationship with a convenience-store clerk, and the two eventually settle down together.

When he is hit by a car on the street, the young man Daikoku foresees the monster Demking appearing at the end of the century. In preparation for the coming confrontation with the Demeking, he organizes a modern-day Seven Lucky Gods composed entirely of antisocial people. This is a utopian epic that, despite the ridiculousness of the story, is the most powerful depiction of the motifs seen in the first two films, which attempt to play on the sense of apocalypse through unrealistic imagination, while staying within a tenuous sense of reality.

A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother.

Yuji and Akiko are newlyweds. Yuji dreams of being a movie star. He lands the lead role in a Pink Eiga soft-core sex film. The director requires him to have sex with the actress. Akiko goes to her high school reunion and is raped by a drunken guy, and then hooks up with her ex-high school love. A dark and comedic look at contemporary relationships and the pitfalls of married life. The story was written by Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard Prize Winner, Masahiro Kobayashi. (Pink Eiga)

Spread over three time periods (Summer 10 Years Ago/Summer 5 Years Ago/This Summer), Lost Virgin tells the tale of good-time girl Chisato (Sasaki), hungry for new experiences yet ultimately in search of emotional fulfilment.

Fumiko, a married bookkeeper at a hair salon, is having an affair with one of the stylists, Sawai. Suspecting that her co-worker Mayumi is also involved with him, Fumiko murders her in a fit of jealousy, dismembers the body, and disposes of the remains around the city. When Mayumi’s husband, taxi driver Yukio, comes looking for his missing wife, Fumiko approaches him and claims that Mayumi had wanted to visit a hot-spring resort in the snowy mountains. The two set out together in search of her, each carrying motives and resentments of their own, as their strange journey gradually develops into an uneasy and increasingly dangerous intimacy.

An erotic drama depicting a married woman who becomes addicted to adultery. Akie's husband is having an affair, but she tolerates it because she feels guilty about not being able to have children. However, feeling lonely because her husband doesn't pay attention to her, Akie has a one-time affair with a man who works in the scrap metal business, and becomes addicted to the affair...

Sachiko, a young woman frustrated with her life of dull routine, and seeking stimulation outside the deadening monotony of housework and catering to her needy husband, befriends Kobayashi, a neighbor whose wife has been carrying on an affair right under his very nose.

Tomio Kanzaki runs a distribution company for foreign pornographic films. It's a small company where the president himself handles the purchasing and other tasks, but Tomio has the skill and enthusiasm to own a house in Las Vegas, USA, where he often goes for work. Tomio had separated from his wife about ten years ago and had no intention of remarrying, but his heart changed when he met Reina. Of course, he was attracted to Reina's beauty and looks, but deep within her body, Tomio sensed the ideal woman.

A story of human interest and eroticism, intertwining the story of a widowed proprietress who runs a public bathhouse and the story of a female college student with a painful past. One day, Aya...

A father who is lazy with money. Kai, the son who always wipes his father's butt. He's a very healthy man. Even if his father sold him to a former male prostitute, Kai could not abandon his father. The person who kindly watches over him is Ryosuke, the owner of the beach house where the father and son suddenly drop by. Ryosuke tries to help Kai somehow, but...

One day, Sayoko is raped by a masked man after school, but afterwards, she asks her student Takao, who enters the classroom, to keep it a secret. A few days later, Sayoko finds an envelope containing a threatening letter. Sayoko confides in Takao and goes with him to the meeting place, but no one shows up. Terrified, Sayoko calls her husband, Koichi, but it's his mistress, Yuki, who answers the phone. Takao gently comforts the wounded Sayoko, and they finally sleep together...

Yuki becomes a soapland girl to pay off her debts. One day, she is followed by a persistent stalker and gets scared, but she is saved by a young man named Kenta who passes by and falls in love at first sight. Yuki is raped by her roommate Yukari's boyfriend and is left physically and mentally exhausted. Then, Kenta confesses his feelings to Yuki, and Yuki recovers. The two become one and become extremely wet...

"Kagaya" is a downtown public bathhouse run by the widow Emiko (Yuko Koma). The drama unfolds at Kagaya, involving various human relationships among her only daughter Hitomi (Yoko Satomi), the bathhouse manager Shuji (Yuichi Minato), the lodgers, the man who courts Hitomi, and the prostitutes.