Tuesday Suspense Theater

Tuesday Suspense Theater

1981 · 25 seasons · 11 eps

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"Tuesday Suspense Theater" was broadcast every Tuesday from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ) on the Nippon Television network for 24 years from September 29 , 1981 to September 27, 2005. It was a two-hour drama slot. As a general rule, suspense dramas with one complete episode (very rarely, two parts) were broadcast every week from 21:00 to 22:54 ( JST ). It is a broadcast frame. Some episodes also aired horror, historical dramas, and special effects dramas.

Directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro · Written by Tatsumi Kumashiro

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Wounded Angels

Wounded Angels · 1974

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Two lovable idiot "private detectives" (or at least, that's their cover story —more like gangsters) try to make ends meet on the mean streets of Tokyo.

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely · 1980

Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely

Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.

Invitation of Lust

Invitation of Lust · 1975

Invitation of Lust

MovieRomanceDrama

Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...

Street of Joy

Street of Joy · 1974

It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Eroticism, drama, and comedy mix as each hour a different event passes, in which all the women's stories come to the surface.

The Inferno

The Inferno · 1979

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Light of Africa

Light of Africa · 1975

Light of Africa

MovieDramaComedy

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

Nowhere Man

Nowhere Man · 1991

Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.

The Woman with Red Hair

The Woman with Red Hair · 1979

The Woman with Red Hair

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she shacks up with him. In a futile attempt to escape the bleak working class surroundings, the pair engage in an obsessive erotic relationship.

Lovers Are Wet

Lovers Are Wet · 1973

A seemingly aimless drifter on the run returns to his hometown. Although some recognize him, he vehemently denies his identity and begins an affair with the owner of a porno theater before setting down a lurid path of sex and violence.

Ichijo's Wet Lust

Ichijo's Wet Lust · 1972

Ichijo's Wet Lust

MovieDramaComedy

Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance. While she was active, she was both the rival and the model for many young strippers. Harumi was one of them. Ichijo Sayuri was the real-life queen of Osaka strippers who was arrested on her final performance.

Modori River

Modori River · 1983

MovieCrimeDrama

The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.

Woods Are Wet

Woods Are Wet · 1973

MovieDramaHorror

Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.

Ecstasy of the Black Rose

Ecstasy of the Black Rose · 1975

Ecstasy of the Black Rose

After his leading actress becomes pregnant and wants to quit, Juzo, an adult film director, becomes obsessed with finding the woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist’s office to star in the film instead.

Pleasure Campus: Secret Games

Pleasure Campus: Secret Games · 1980

Pleasure Campus: Secret Games

A high school girl has a very very bad day. She is disciplined for disrupting class and sent to clean lab equipment. Feeling horny she uses a phallic looking test tube to pleasure herself. Unfortunately a passing teacher spots her and proceeds to further discipline her with additional equipment. She suffers as a parade of teachers dish out a variety of humiliations one after another. Finally escaping to home she finds her trials are not over as her parents decide to give her a rather perverse sexual education.

Woman with Wet Fingers

Woman with Wet Fingers · 1984

Woman with Wet Fingers

Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise her child and balance her love affairs.

Rolling on the Road

Rolling on the Road · 1981

Rolling on the Road

George is a washed-up middle-aged punk rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker. His life becomes even more of a mess when the nurse he raped moves in with them.

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