Director(s): Kan Mukai, Mamoru Watanabe, Shinji Imaoka
Cast: Katori Tamaki, Muto Shusaku, Sawa Masaki, Yoshida Jun
Producer(s): Keiko Sato, Stephan Holl
UNDERWATER LOVE
おんなの河童 directed by Shinji Imaoka (2011, 83 minutes)
Asuka works in a lakeside fish factory. She is just about to be married to her boss. One day, she encounters a Kappa, a water creature living in the lake and learns that it is the reincarnation of Aoki, her first love. What ensues is a zany spectacle of love, music & sex.
WOMEN HELL SONG
おんな地獄唄 尺八弁天 directed by Mamoru Watanabe (1970, 75 minutes)
Katori Tamaki, the star of the first ever pink film, Flesh Market (1962), stars as the roaming outlaw Okayo, also known as Benten due to the prominent tattoo of the Buddhist Goddess of Love emblazoned across her back. On the run from her persecutors, who seek to claim the tattoo and its skin canvas as a bounty, Okayo finds a safe haven in the arms of the mysterious shakuhachi (bamboo flute) playing Seigaku, himself tattooed with the image of Kisshôten, the Goddess of Prosperity.
Plus bonus film
FORBIDDEN TECHNIQUES
禁じられたテクニック directed by Kan Mukai (1966, 71 minutes)
After meeting a prostitute, a former box-champion recalls his past life.
*German dubbed with English subtitles
