Best movies like A Tale of Happiness

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Yusuke Mikuni, a department manager at his company, buys a one-room apartment to have some space to himself. He signs an agreement with a young woman named Chako and has an affair with her once a week at the apartment.

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Wet Weekend

Miyashita plays an office clerk who is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, Miyashita and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.

Woman Who Exposes Herself

Toriko is a sexually frustrated wife who gets involved in swapping games with her neighbors.

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession

Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks to Runa's sexual initiation at the convent. Has this taught meekness to Runa?

Lusty Discipline in Uniform

University lecturer Yoshimatsu lusts after Mikiko. He attempts to get closer to her by seducing Mikiko's mother.

The Bikini Carwash Company II

The girls are back. Their business has been a success, and a purchase contract has been signed with an international megabusiness. But the company CEO is not playing straight - he wants only the land the carwash locations are sited on - to tear them down and build condos. The girls have only a week to raise $4 million to buy their company back. Lingerie sales over a TV channel is the method of choice, and since the product is demonstrated by the carwash principals, the flesh quotient remains as high as expected.

Tattoo

The singer Asami is mistakenly kidnapped by a maniac looking for her manager's daughter. A contemporary reimagining of Junichiro Tanizaki's short story Shisei a.k.a. The Tattooer (1910).

Carousel Maki: Wet Affairs of the Night

Follows Ryoko, an older nightclub host, who has to choose between a relationship with her loser boyfriend that owes the yakuza money and her music producer.

Flight Attendant: Scandal

Four female flight attendants embark on some salacious misadventures: A few go to a company singles party to cavort with some pilots, while the lovely Misako embarks on an adventure all her own after meeting a street fortune teller...

A Kiss in the Dark

Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye.

Brass Knuckle Boys

A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.

Pleasure at the Hot Spring

As rumors spread about a hidden treasure worth 300 billion yen buried somewhere underneath a mountain hot spring resort large numbers of people flock to the local inn hotel managed by a madam with 2 things on their mind.....treasure hunting in the daytime and sex hunting in the night time. The geishas at the inn have their hands full as the inn is fully booked. The rumors even attract a shrewd rich tycoon named Yagisawa to the inn. Yagisawa immediately makes an offer to buy the inn at 80 million yen which is considered too low by the madam. However when "news" that some gold pieces have been unearthed Yagisawa agrees to buy the inn at madams asking price of 100 million yen. Is this a con job or are the buried treasures real?

She Cat

Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!

Shishô no okami-san: Ijiri ijirare

After disbanding the trio, entertainer Kenichi was working part-time at a cleaning company. On the other hand, Nami, who was Kenichi's ex-girlfriend, formed a new combination with Yusuke and was working hard at training, but her material was boring and she relied on Kenichi. Meanwhile, Kenichi and Kazuyo naturally have a physical relationship, but she finds out that Kazuyo was actually the wife of the late Kantaro Namiki, whom Kenichi admired.

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture!

A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent intensity.

Sexually Insatiable

Three women make a pact to experience as much uncommitted sex as possible, but when one of them falls for the guy next door, the others stick to their agreement and seduce their friend's new love.

Woman with Pierced Nipples

A lovesick midinette ends up accepting a date with a stranger who buys her flowers every day. Charmed by his playboy physique, she moves in with him and submits to his fantasies.

Housewife's Afternoon Delight

Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness and boredom in the form of a door-to-door salesman in this erotic drama.

Double Bed

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon

A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband. When she seeks extramarital relationships, her affairs are discovered by a brothel-owner who then blackmails the woman into working as a prostitute for her.

Lady Chatterly in Tokyo

Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire's son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their gardener and chauffeur, Nitta. After her husband discovers Mio's infidelity, he forces her to leave.

Flesh Target: Rape!

A sexually frustrated office worker hit his boss in the night club. The next day he is told he's to be demoted to a different position in the company. He gets so disturbed and thus begins his rape rampage. He rapes a number of hard-to-get ladies in his company. Surprisingly, the ladies are stimulated by his assault and finally help him in getting promoted.

Aiyoku no hibi: Ecstasy

A man and a woman in mourning clothes meet on a train platform by chance...

The Now Girl

For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.

S&M Hunter: Wife to Be Molested

This one stars dexterous Shihori Na gasaka, from Masaru Konuma's Woman In A Box 2 (1986) and Erotic Seduction: Flesh Bondage (1987), in a contrived tale of corporate decadence and barbaric behavior. She plays the wife of an up and coming executive who must succumb to the animalistic cravings of the board of directors to protect her husband's position in the company.

Osoe!

Roman Porno from 1978. A woman wants revenge on a corporation for its role in the death of her parents, and she is willing to go to great lengths to achieve her goal.

Rouge

A photographer for a weekly magazine becomes obsessed with Nami, a woman he first saw getting brutally raped in an underground porn video. After tracking her down, he begins an affair with her, initially unaware that she is also in an abusive relationship with Muraki, the man responsible for the video that started it all.

Beautiful Sisters: Flesh Slave

A maniac breaks into the apartment of two sisters and abuses them sexually and physically until they turn the tables.

Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong

Akiko is a housewife who is bored with her relationship. She lives an adulterous passion with a colleague of her husband, decides to follow him to Hong Kong where he has just been transferred. Akiko's husband goes out looking for them, without success. Desperate, he lets himself be dragged into the underworld of the city by a mysterious Sino-Japanese mongrel who plunges him into drugs and pimping. Until the day he finally learns the terrible truth about his unfaithful wife.

The Blonde in Edo Castle

A concubine is exiled from the Shogun's harem after she is found guilty of having tried to smuggle a kabuki dancer into the palace for the purpose of an illicit affair. Another conubine believes she has been framed and keeps investigating.

Fascination: Portrait of a Lady

Hisako Ōuchi (Naomi Tani) is the sexually-frustrated wife of the older art academy Professor Ōuchi (Minoru Ōkochi). Ōuchi is a repressed conservative who disdains modern art, and expels Kazuo Kobayashi (Tachiki Bessho), a student who specializes in SM painting. Hisako becomes obsessed with the expelled student, and has an affair with him. Kazuo and Hisako retire to a cabin in the countryside where they indulge in SM activities.

Hellish Love

Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.

Koibito-tachi no iru machi

Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.

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