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Akio Jissoji Ranked

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  • Ryô Tamura and Michiko Tsukasa in This Transient Life (1970)

    1. This Transient Life

    19702h 23mNot Rated
    7.6 (1.5K)
    Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsMichiko TsukasaRyô TamuraEiji Okada
  • Mandara (1971)

    2. Mandara

    19712h 12mNot Rated
    6.5 (577)
    Two student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsKôji ShimizuAkiko MoriRyô Tamura
  • Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988)

    3. Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    19882h 15m
    6.0 (519)
    A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming city.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsShintarô KatsuKyûsaku ShimadaMieko Harada
  • Poem (1972)

    4. Poem

    19721h 59mNot Rated
    7.0 (438)
    As a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsSaburô ShinodaEiko YanamiRyô Tamura
  • It Was a Faint Dream (1974)

    5. It Was a Faint Dream

    19742h
    6.6 (163)
    After a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsJanet HattaShin KishidaMinori Terada
  • Akutoku no sakae (1988)

    6. Akutoku no sakae

    19881h 36m
    6.1 (158)
    A decadent Count in 1920's Japan becomes obsessed with the works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from his novels, and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsRenji IshibashiSeiran LiKôji Shimizu
  • D-Zaka no satsujin jiken (1998)

    7. D-Zaka no satsujin jiken

    19981h 35m
    6.9 (213)
    Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsHiroyuki SanadaKyûsaku ShimadaYumi Yoshiyuki
  • Arietta (1989)

    8. Arietta

    198951m
    5.7 (61)
    A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsKeiko KagaKiriko Shimizu
  • Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba (1977)

    9. Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba

    19772h 20m
    6.7 (117)
    Follows the life of the famous classical printmaker, Utamaro Kitagawa, set during the time when Utamaro is commissioned to produce pornographic woodblocks.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsShin KishidaEiji OkadaMikio Narita
  • A Watcher in the Attic (1993)

    10. A Watcher in the Attic

    19931h 14m
    6.5 (117)
    The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsHiroshi MikamiKan'ichi HiragaMasami Horiuchi
  • La Valse (1990)

    11. La Valse

    19901h 35m
    5.5 (51)
    In a piece of erotic realism it is a work that both entertains the curious eye and then turns around to provide philosophy in order to criticize it. Being a prostitute is not easy. There is rape, abuse and pity as well as money and pleasure. There is a rape case. There is a a lawyer. Then there is a the perpetrator and there is the service provider. Amidts all this there is a woman with a dream.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsMari AyukawaMariko ItsukiKeiko Kaga
  • Yoiyami semareba (1969)

    12. Yoiyami semareba

    196943mShort
    6.9 (109)
    When faced with an accidental gas leak, four bored students turn the situation into a game. The last one to leave the apartment gets a small sum of money.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsBen HiuraYumiko MitomeRen Saitô
  • Aoi numa no onna (1986)

    13. Aoi numa no onna

    19861h 30mTV Movie
    5.5 (36)
    A painter makes a lover's suicide pact with the wife of his friend, but does not kill himself; letting her die alone. Five years later, his friend remarries a woman who looks exactly like his dead spouse; who haunts the painter's dreams.
    DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsKotobuki HananomotoChisako HaraYasumi Hara

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