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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Original name: 新宿泥棒日記
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Style: experimental, avant garde, weird
Plot: sex, thief, bookstore, pink film, rape, dark humor, female nudity, sex scene, theft, bare breasts, boss, male female relationship, makeover, riot, surrealism, street musician, employee, breaking the fourth wall, sexual revolution, nudity, nude, city, japanese new wave, song, dildo ...
Time: year 1969
Place: tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out erotic, weird, avant garde and humorous films with plots about female nudity, sex, nudity, sex scene, japanese new wave, bare breasts and erotica mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like Diary of a Shinjuku Thief: The Ceremony (1971), Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971), Sing a Song of Sex (1967), Mandara (1971), Dear Summer Sister (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Ceremony (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Style: spiritual, avant garde
Plot: funeral, spirit, sex, incest, post war japan, car crash, flashback, marriage, tradition, patriarch, colonialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 1950s, 60s
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The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
Style: touching, psychological, weird
Plot: suicide, surrealism, revolt, exploitation, communist, sex scene, rape, female nudity, police, student, university, breaking the fourth wall ...
Place: tokyo
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Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In a Japanese colony, children overthrow their parental guardians and attempt to form a new society. Their plan spirals out of control and they are soon lost in a web of sexual deviation and violence.
Style: experimental, controversial, disturbing, avant garde
Plot: extreme, sex with a minor, rebellion, rape, female nudity, controversy, male nudity, girl, surrealism, boy, bare breasts, crucifix ...
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Sing a Song of Sex (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.
Style: absurd, erotic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: university, rape, vietnam war, sex, youth, sexuality, politics, innocence lost, love and romance, society, high school life, college ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: japan, tokyo
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70%
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Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Conditions have been better for the nameless protagonist: his grandmother is a shoplifter and his war criminal father and sister have an unhealthy, intimate relationship with the family rabbit.
Style: avant garde, experimental, erotic drama, offbeat, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, female nudity, sex, youth, alienation, poetry, success, anarchy, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, nudity ...
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Mandara (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: About two student couples who become members of an obscure sect. The cult seeks a prehistoric utopia with free sex and without society's norms and values. The students are torn between ambient pressure and the sect leader's authority to ...
Style: independent film, weird
Plot: rape, utopia, philosophy, forced abortion, sex scene, wife swapping, bare breasts, erotica, ocean, buddhist temple, city, buddhism ...
Place: japan
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Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
Plot: drinking, singer, beer, war crime, brother sister relationship, sea, beach, prostitute, rape, extramarital affair, judge, singing ...
Place: okinawa japan
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Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ecstasy of the Angels (Tenshi No Kokotsu), a jarring exercise in experimental cinema, was also shown as Angelic Orgasm, which should tell you something. While Go, Go features a somewhat linear narrative to couch its more bizarre flights of fancy, ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, underground film, avant garde
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses ...
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, erotica, dog attack, butcher, religion, theft, capitalism, allergy, thief, tax evasion, symbolism ...
Place: italy, rome italy
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Naked Pursuit (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Caught up in the swirling tide of student protests and riots, a young man becomes the unintentional murderer of a policeman. Handcuffed and enroute to jail, he escapes from the authorities and comes across a young woman on the beach, who is intent ...
Plot: rape, male female relationship, sexual abuse, sex, exploitation, beach, student, nudity, japanese new wave, handcuffs
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Death by Hanging (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
Style: dark comedy, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, death penalty, prison, immigrant, racism, refugee, social outcast, death row, japanese culture, trippy, murder ...
Time: year 1968, 50s
Place: japan, korea
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Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
Style: realistic, semi serious, biting, surreal, witty ...
Plot: alternate reality, death, boat, train, vietnam war, ocean, satire, nudity, immigrant, politics, prank, misfit ...
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Kandagawa Wars (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the ...
Style: erotic
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Gushing Prayer: A 15-Year-Old Prostitute (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young girl, already a jaded sexual veteran, embarks on an odyssey of self-discovery to find out the true reasons for her dissatisfaction and total desensitization.
Style: erotic, controversial, avant garde, weird
Plot: underage sex, erotica, underground, sex with teenager, pink film, exploitation, japanese teenager, japanese girl, hotel room, teenager, teacher, pregnant teenager ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is ...
Style: controversial, spoof, sexy, weird, hot
Plot: surrealism, lgbt, female psychopath, crucifix, breaking the fourth wall, erection, dominatrix, female nudity, rape, love, lesbian sex, extramarital affair ...
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The Pornographers (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: surreal, erotic, sexy, talky, clever ...
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Audience: adult
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
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Place: tokyo, asia
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The Girls (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
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Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, humorous
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The Stewardesses (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A single eventful night in the lives of a crew of Los Angeles-based, trans-Pacific stewardesses, as they experiment with drugs and engage in various sexual encounters. The Stewardesses is a 1969 Softcore 3-D film. Produced on a budget of just over ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: controversial, disturbing, experimental, erotic, dark fantasy ...
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David Holzman's Diary (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something important about himself and his reality. This film is not a real documentary or is it?
Style: mockumentary, independent film, aesthetic, cult classic, experimental ...
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Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
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Time: year 1972, 70s
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The Dress (1996)
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Duration: 103 min.
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Style: dark comedy, slasher, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A glimpse into the lives of three prostitutes in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo and the clients who solicit them.
Style: sincere, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Soloman Crow pays a visit to his god fearing, bible quoting, closeted homosexual brother and his sexually repressed wife. He enters their home with a proclamation to kick a drug habit that almost cost him his life. Broke, it doesn't take ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, contemplative, sex comedy ...
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Slave Widow (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story: After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that ...
Style: erotic
Plot: exploitation, pink film, erotica, cheating fiance, nudity, widow, suicide by drowning, bare breasts, suicide, female nudity, father son relationship, sex ...
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Central Bazaar (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: For this remarkable experimental film, the provocative avant-garde legend Stephen Dwoskin gathered together a group of strangers and filmed them as they explored their fantasies over a period of five days: a project that now sounds a little like ...
Style: avant garde, erotic, independent film, experimental, weird
Plot: erotica, female nudity, orgy, underground, makeover, male nudity, gay interest, dildo
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