Mai Oikawa
2021ネプチューン ｉｎ どつきどつかれ
Takashi Komatsu
Taizo Harada, Jun Nagura
A gang of tough youths, who have little interest in finding work, while away their days with quarrels and girls in their Kishiwada neighborhood. Based on the novel by Toshikazu Nakaba, who also wrote "The Easy Life". Starring the popular comic trio, "Neptune."
Getting Even With Bad Boys
東雲楼・女の乱
Ikuo Sekimoto
Rino Katase, Keiko Saitô
An illustration of the tragic lives of geishas at a popular geisha house, Shinonomero. Shortly after being sold to a geisha house at age 5, Shizu is befriended by a fellow older geisha, Tsuru. After years of living and working together, Tsuru and Shizu manage to run the operations of Shinonomero as the proprietress and assistant. Despite vows to never to let their lovers come between them or Shinonomero, moments of weakness leave Tsuru and Shizu caught up in a web of betrayal and plunged into debt. With the guilt of losing Shinonomero to Udo, a yakuza who loaned them money, it is now up to young Shizu to redeem Tsuru’s honor and restore Shinonomero as their own.
In Blazing Love
天国から来た男たち
Takashi Miike
Koji Kikkawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salary man Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison on false drug charges, and assumes his lawyers will clear up this misunderstanding fairly quickly. However, he soon comes to the realization that his innocence means less than how much bribe money he’s able to come up with for his release. It becomes apparent that Kohei is going to have to get to know his fellow inmates a little better, as he’s obviously in this situation for the long haul; but meeting a female inmate from a nearby jail certainly makes his transition to the criminal life a little easier to take.
The Guys from Paradise
