The best Saburô Shôji’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Saburô Shôji’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Saburô Shôji.
Wife to Be Sacrificed
5.8/10
A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. In three years, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order, when suddenly he returns. Obsessed with rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and brings her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines her vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, suspensions and humiliations. Astonishingly, through the rage and lust, the pair develops a relationship that pushes the boundaries of lurid passions and perverse obsessions.
Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market
6.3/10
Roman Porno from 1974, focusing on the daily life of lower-class individuals in the slums of Osaka.
Woman with Wet Fingers
4.7/10
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 kid and balance her love affairs.
Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
5.7/10
When the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city. The old boss' son proves a poor leader, only interested in Omitsu, his high-class girlfriend. Yajima, the second-in-command, is taking advantage of the situation to accumulate power for himself...
The Man Who Stole the Sun
7.5/10
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Wet Lust: 21 Strippers
6.7/10
Roman Porno from 1974.
Seiai senseijutsu: SEX ajikurabe
4.6/10
Roman Porno from 1978. A film director, producer, and writer take a working vacation at a resort on the advice of their horoscopes. For the next week, the three men conduct interviews with many young women, seeking to discover their next starlet.
The Lair of Sirens
5.4/10
The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Love Beast: Flower of Vice
4.3/10
Naomi (Jun Izumi) and her business partner Tadashi run a neighborhood bar, sharing the profits, as well as each other. One evening, a yakuza gangster swaggers into the bar with a stack of money for Tadashi. he takes Naomi in an exchange. She is trained as a high-class hooker and is, seemingly, grateful for getting the opportunity to experience the joy of sex. However, appearances are deceiving. Secretly, Naomi is carrying grudge against the yakuza and she finally has the opportunity to take revenge.
Painful Bliss: Final Twist
6.9/10
Kitayama tries to have sex with Akemi. While he manages to come to her room, her boyfriend Kawasaki comes to find him. Unfortunately, Kawasaki is a yakuza guy.
Rope and Breasts
5.8/10
Sayo is running a travelling BDSM show with her husband, where she plays the bottom, and gets increasingly bored with her life. During their tour in Kyoto, they are arranged by a well-off couple who ask for a private show, without knowing that they will eventually be forced for the "real thing". Scripted by Chiho Katsura using the pseudonym Eizo Uji.
Light of Africa
7/10
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
A Madcap Corporation
A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.
Love in the Mud
6.9/10
This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.
Assault!
6/10
A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.
Sukeban Mafia: Disgrace
5.9/10
Two young women, Keiko and Kaori, challenge a large organization called the Sukeban Mafia that is involved in drug dealing and prostitution...
Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market
5.7/10
Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.
Ah! That Pep Squad
6.2/10
Life in the pep squad is all about harsh discipline. Seniors are "Gods", juniors are "Humans", sophomores are "Slaves" and freshmen are treated like "Trash". One sunny day, two freshmen are entrusted with the task to dry out the squadron's flag; the most cherished and symbolic item of the squad. When they accidentally burn a hole in the flag with a cigarette, they blame Aota. Aota attempts to take full responsibility by committing "harakiri", but changes his mind during the process – a deep stab to the stomach has inspired him with a better idea.
Step on the Gas!
6.2/10
Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Shinshu shikoshiko bushi: Onsen geisha vs. ozashiki stripper
Roman Porno from 1975.
