kumashiro tatsumi retrospective
Overview of films
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Kamu onna
Opposite of the thriller ‘Fatal Attraction’, released around the same time: this is a household drama in which the husband comes off wo
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Ichijo Sayuri: nureta yokujo
Striptease dancer strives for professional perfection in the first Kumashiro film for the so-called Nikkatsu Roman Porn series.
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Bo no Kanashimi
Last, impressive Kumashiro film, in which a Japanese gangster has to face his peers.
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Koibito tachi wa nureta
Favorite film by Kumashiro. When Katsu returns after five years absence to his home village, he becomes involved with the female owner of the local
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Modorigawa
Poet spends his days in the company of prostitutes. He believes these decadent experiences will improve his poetry.
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Yojohan fusuma no urabari
Tokyo 1918: different characters share different love nights. Geishas are dragged along in ecstasy, or occasionally flooded by melancholy.
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Akai kami no onna
Redhead woman leads the men astray. She is not quite what she seems. It is regarded as one of the strongest Kumashiro films.
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Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu
A brothel in the red-light district of Tokyo. Naoko tries to break Shigeko’s record of 26 clients in one day. Shimako keeps wasting her money
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Seishun no satetsu
Law student and tutor Eto Kenichiro becomes involved with pupil Tomiko, but leaves her in the lurch because he has to marry his cousin.