Mamoru Watanabe

Directing

Mamoru Watanabe

Born 1931-03-19 · Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Film director, screenwriter, and producer. Especially prolific as a director of pinku-eiga with well over 200 credits to his name.

Acting credits

Wet Hot Sake poster
4.4

The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...

Wet Hot Sake

1996

Harmful Insect poster
6.9

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.

Harmful Insect

2002

A Pale Woman poster
NR

In order to be with the man she loves, Kim goes back to Japan from Korea. The man saved Kim from darkness, when she was little. But he was raised by Kim's mother under the dark world. Now, he is involved in the criminal world. To protect her love, Kim makes a dangerous plan to get the man from her mother.

A Pale Woman

2012

Pink Ribbon poster
6.4

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.

Pink Ribbon

2004

Shinjuku Messy District : I’ll Be There poster
4.3

A young couple with artistic tendencies spends their time around a bar in central Shinjuku, trying to figure out their relationship and life aspirations.

Shinjuku Messy District : I’ll Be There

1977

No artwork available
2.0

A salesman who is double-married ends up having to marry another woman through an unexpected turn of events...

Profound Experience: Sucking the Pussycat

1978

When a Woman is in Agony poster
NR

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

When a Woman is in Agony

1970

Hussy poster
3.7

16-year-old Tachiko (Kimiko Asuka) discovers the true nature of her father's wife, Fumie (Michiko Sakyo), who is after the fortune of the company president, Gozo (Keisuke Senda), and recommends divorce to him, but she is kidnapped and her virginity is stolen by Hayata (Ryoichi Amano) who is colluding with Fumie. After the funeral for her father, who committed suicide out of pity for his daughter, Tachiko disappears.

Hussy

1966

My Blood Bone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Blood Bone

2001

Behind the camera

No artwork available
3.0

Two men get to know each other through their shared love of groping on the train, and fall into a bromance. They build a set that looks exactly like the train, and when they open a shop where people can come and play groper with their models inside of this set, it becomes very successful.

Molester's Train: Mischievous Fingers

1982

Uniform Virgin Pain poster
4.0

After school two virginal high school girls, Mari and Emi, decide to visit a disco club in the red light district. While Mari is dancing to the beat Emi is picked up by two men and sexually assaulted. The next day the two men try to force Emi into prostitution. When Mari finds out what happened to her best friend she burns with revenge… and conceals a razor.

Uniform Virgin Pain

1981

Kyoko Aizome's Widow Boarding House poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kyoko Aizome's Widow Boarding House

1984

Bishôjo onanie poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bishôjo onanie

1983

Bondage Show poster
3.0

A man plays the bondage show with his wife, has lung disease, in the end of the 19th century. After his wife dies, an ex-military police guy helps him to get stable life without bondage shows. One day, he meets a woman who closely resembles his ex-wife and she wants to be tied by rope for her husband, who is an artist and near to death, to paint. The woman desperately asks the man to tied her up by rope...

Bondage Show

1979

Holy Virgin Bondage poster
3.0

16 year-old girl named Aya is infatuated with the proletarian politics of working-class rebel, Miyata. Her sister Sono believes the boy is not a good influence and she allows her ‘Master’ (a powerful Judge with whom she is a mistress) to arranged for the authorities to kill Miyata. After the boy’s death, Aya tries to take revenge against the Master but gets arrested for attempted murder. Due to the Master’s influence, Aya is sentenced to house arrest… at the Master’s home (!). She is soon raped and introduced to bondage and extreme sexual abuse.

Holy Virgin Bondage

1979

Black Hair Velvet Soul poster
4.1

A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.

Black Hair Velvet Soul

1982

Women Hell Song poster
4.8

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 Kisshoten, the Goddess of Prosperity.

Women Hell Song

1970

No artwork available
NR

Pinku from 1965.

Jôfu to mesu

1965

No artwork available
NR

Pinku from 1971.

Nedoko-tsuma

1971

Yasuko Yagami ONANIE poster
2.0

Mio lives alone in a villa in the woods near a lake. Her ex-husband Muraoka comes to visit her and demands that they get back together. However, Mio enters her room and locks the door. After a while, she hears moaning from inside the room. She goes around to the balcony and peeks in, and finds Mio leaning her body out and engrossed in masturbating...The next day, students Mako and Toru come by car. Toru has been told that he has a part-time job, but he is not told what it entails. That night, Muraoka, who is still there, is shocked to see Mio and Mako entangled. He then tries to get Toru, a virgin, to embrace Mako and break up with Mio, but..

Yasuko Yagami ONANIE

1985

No artwork available
1.0

Pinku from 1970.

Jûroku-sai no keiken

1970

No artwork available
2.0

Pinku from 1969.

Zeppin no tsubo

1969

Tie Up the Girl! poster
4.5

A girl is sold to a brothel. She is destined to become a prostitute, but because she is still a child, she is made to work as a maid there. Because she grew up in the countryside, she is careless in everything she does, and is constantly mocked by the landlady and the prostitutes who work there. One day, the girl takes the undergarment she was ordered to wear and heads to the room of a prostitute's older sister. As soon as she opens the sliding door, she is shocked. There she finds her older sister tied up with rope and being tortured by a male customer. The girl instinctively shouts "Stop it!", but is shocked to see that the older sister does not seem to mind, but rather seems to enjoy it. Before long, the girl is unable to get the scene out of her head, and begins to secretly tie ropes around herself in her room...

Tie Up the Girl!

1978

Hard rape: Susuri naku hitozuma poster
NR

Junnosuke, a bureaucrat, and his wife, Masae—a couple whose relationship had long since gone cold. One night, while Junnosuke was away on a business trip, Masae was preparing to sleep alone in their quiet residential home when she discovered a stranger standing by her bedside. The man restrained her, ransacked the room, and then violated her with frenzied brutality. From the very next day, the man began to appear, relentlessly pursuing her...

Hard rape: Susuri naku hitozuma

2003

Shinkon shoya no tehodoki poster
7.0

Pinku from 1972.

Shinkon shoya no tehodoki

1972

Taguchi Yukari: Za keiren poster
2.7

A tale of photo shoots, hypnosis, and pseudo-documentary sex on a stage.

Taguchi Yukari: Za keiren

1986

Rope Violation poster
2.0

Satoko, a mentally frail girl, is taken in by Anzai, the owner of a hot springs inn, after her parents commit suicide. One day, the clerk Matsuo forcibly takes Satoko's virginity. The following night, the clerk appears in Satoko's room again. The servant Shozo feels sorry for Satoko and invites her to run away to Tokyo with him. Meanwhile, Shozo steals money from the inn and accidentally kills Matsuo. He buries the body and runs away to Tokyo. Satoko is left alone and is subjected to Anzai's bizarre torture...

Rope Violation

1980

A widow in mourning clothes, I want... poster
2.0

Izumi had just lost her husband Nishimura. Nishimura had fallen down the stairs while drunk. One day, she found a tape with a woman's voice among his belongings. Izumi suspected it was evidence of an affair. A few days later, Izumi met Nishimura's friend Fujii and played the tape for him, asking if he knew who Nishimura was having an affair with. Fujii said he had no idea who the voice was, so it wasn't necessarily an affair. However, Izumi suspected that Nishimura had whistled the same tune as the woman on the tape, and that he thought she was a boring woman compared to that woman. Fujii took the tape and said he would dispose of it. One day, when Izumi returned home from shopping, Ayaka, who she had passed in the hallway of the apartment building, was whistling the tune. That night, Izumi had a nightmare in which Nishimura and Ayaka were making love. The next day, Izumi approaches Fujii, wanting to get revenge on Nishimura for betraying her.

A widow in mourning clothes, I want...

2008

Porno report: Hitozuma baishun poster
9.5

A housewife covertly works in a high-class brothel in Tokyo with other married women. She never wants her husband to know that she is a prostitute. The brothel and its employees were making good money, but after the accidental death of one housewife, things begin to go wrong.

Porno report: Hitozuma baishun

1976

A Fancy Man and a Fancy Woman poster
NR

A woman joins with an insurance clerk in trying to kill her husband and thus secure a big insurance pay-out.

A Fancy Man and a Fancy Woman

1967

Secret Chronicle: Prostitute Sacrifice poster
3.0

Sold into prostitution by her so-called 'uncle', an innocent and naïve young girl is left not knowing what to do.

Secret Chronicle: Prostitute Sacrifice

1977

No artwork available
2.0

Kazuo met Kayo—a hostess with an unglamorous appearance and a lack of overt sex appeal—at a bar; he began frequenting the establishment and eventually secured a date with her. On the day of the date, Kayo was dressed just as plainly as before; when Kazuo asked why, she explained that she was hiding burn marks. That night, the two became intimate in a hotel room, though Kayo refused to let him remove her *yukata*. Unable to suppress his curiosity, Kazuo undressed her while she slept, revealing burn scars on her thighs and linear scars across her abdomen...

Mazo reido: Torawarete

2004

Slave Widow poster
5.8

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 Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.

Slave Widow

1967