The Water Was So Clear
Romance, rape, tension, repression and death: these are the quintessential themes explored in this dialogue-free Japanese black-and-white movie. A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she is raped by a young man who then becomes her lover. The priest happens on them one night as they make love before the temple shrine, and he becomes erotically obsessed.
Yoichi Takabayashi
Director
Matsui Tomohiko
Writer
Casts & Crew
Also Directed by Yoichi Takabayashi
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
When a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective (Akira Nakao) to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the inner lives of the two.
Based on the novel.
An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.
Docudrama starring dollmaker Keisuke Okuyama.
Roman Porno from 1982. A young university associate professor sells her body as a high-class prostitute while her husband is away, despite being in a calm relationship. The husband, while turning a blind eye to the behavior of such a wife, begins to feel a masochistic pleasure, and two people connect with a mysterious marital love.
A steam locomotive that runs on a trip and the beautiful four seasons of Japan.
Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.
1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.
