Focus: V-cinema

Overview of films

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  Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Nakahara Shun | 76' | Japan | No premiere

  A teenage boy is sent back to Earth from heaven so that he can lose his virginity, but is reincarnated as a girl.
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  Betrayal Tomorrow

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Eiichi Kudo | 97' | Japan | No premiere

  A bad lieutenant on the mean streets of Yokohama, by Toei B-movie veteran Kudo Eiichi.
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  Crime Hunter 2: Bullets of Betrayal

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Ōkawa Toshimichi | 69' | Japan | No premiere

  More action in this sequel to the originator of V-Cinema, featuring the other actor son of Kirk Douglas.
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  Crime Hunter 3: Killing Bullet

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Ōkawa Toshimichi | 76' | Japan | No premiere

  Joe’s final mission is to rescue his ex-lover from the clutches of an evil crime lord.
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  Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Ōkawa Toshimichi | 60' | Japan | No premiere

  It’s action all the way in the film that launched the V-Cinema phenomenon.

• Drug Connection

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Shôkaku Baba | 110' | Japan | No premiere
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  Female Teacher: Forbidden Sex

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Nakata Hideo | 84' | Japan | No premiere

  Ring director Nakata Hideo’s directorial debut is a steamy tale of love in school corridors.
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  Fudoh: The New Generation

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Miike Takashi | 98' | Japan | No premiere

  Underage assassins take on the yakuza in Miike Takashi’s gleeful celebration of excess.
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  A Haunted School

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Tsuruta Norio | 70' | Japan | No premiere

  An early feature by a J-horror pioneer, in which even daylight won’t keep you safe from ghosts.

• The King of Minami

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Haginiwa Sadaaki | 83' | Japan | No premiere

  This tale of a loan shark helping small business owners became the quintessential V-Cinema series.

• The King of Minami: Special Ver. 50

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Haginiwa Sadaaki | 110' | Japan | No premiere

  The quintessential V-Cinema series reaches its 50th episode, with “King of V-Cinema” Takeuchi Riki still in the lead role.
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  Orchids Under the Moon

  • Focus: V-cinema

  Ishii Takashi | 88' | Japan | No premiere

  An unlucky gambler finds new purpose in life after meeting a tearaway pop idol in trouble with the yakuza.