Movies: Yūko Katagiri

A documentary compilation that shows various clips from the Roman Porno series of movies from 1971 to 1988....

A young woman and her boyfriend are recruited to work in a bathhouse but find their relationship falling apart when she falls for a dangerous gangster....

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover....

A naive country girl runs away to the city and gets picked up by a kindly well dressed man. She soon finds that life can be cruel....

A housewife is brutally assaulted in an unfinished construction zone of her apartment complex by a masked man. She somehow survives but other women are soon discovered, murdered then set on fire. Meanwhile she reignites an affair with a former lover ...

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war....

Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do....

In historical times, the Shogun family employs a group of Iga ninjas to take over the Akizuki clan's lands. The Akizuki hire the Fumi ninjas, a group of female warriors who enhance their fighting ability with sexual magic such as the "white snake spe...

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs....

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling her Hokkaido property, is apparently flush with cash but newly homeless. Her grown children take turns...

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' is adapted to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventuall...

Documentary on Nikkatsu's Roman Porno film series, with a heavy focus on prolific director Masaru Konuma....

"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their harsh father, including a daughter who plays the three-corded shamisen for pilgrims visiting the sacred chapel of Ise....

Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live t...

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Third and Shinbunbu embark on a plan to make money by Third becoming a pimp and Shinbunbu a prostitute....

A mix of satire, slapstick and straight ahead Roman Porno. We have two stories of Office Ladies in trouble, a pervert running amok in a park, references to Westside Story, Keystone Cops and other Roman Porno films. Naomi Tani and Yuko Katagiri appear...

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A young wife dabbles in casual prostitution to secretly help her older husband improve his business. But when she falls for one of her clients complications ensue....