First-time feature filmmakers Heretu Tetahiotupa, Christophe Cordier delve into the ritual art of Marquesan tattoo, sharing its cultural and historical significance by reenacting the past and challenging the present.

The second part of the Gamblers series.

Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated flying-angel pattern and in this way brings much pleasure to her patron. A young hoodlum named Shinnosuke also covets the tattooed maiden. He, decorated with the design of a famous thief, finally gets to her and she responds as she rarely does with her older lover. Also in love with her is a young girl named Okimi who has herself tattooed with a courtesan design just to please the older woman. Having done so, however, she becomes fair prey to the tattoo-loving Tonomura who loses no time in seducing her.

This is a film about women's feelings and destiny, and a woman's conscious choice between heterosexuality and homosexuality. The film has always been shrouded in a rather strange atmosphere, and it still bluntly expresses the irresistible impulse and determination of women after their true desires are awakened. When Yimin was very young, she often liked to hide in corners and watch her mother change clothes. She thought that a woman's body was the most beautiful thing in the world. When she grew up, her body changed, but she tried her best to take it. Hidden away, because she never thought that she should be a woman. God gave her the body of a woman and made her destined to like women... In the process of searching for love, she went through countless twists and turns until she met this girl. (Peffin)... But what is their love in the end... A woman falling in love with a woman is destined to be not a complete love, but she is still willing to give her true love without regrets...

Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimyo and wealthy townspeople. Under the name of Nezumi Kozo, there is a small wholesaler Jiro. And once Toyama and Jiro, when they were young, were comrades who spent all their time gambling and having fun with women in the Yushima Tenjin area...

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Tattoo Nightmares is an American docu-reality series taking a closer look at “tattastrophies” and the genius work of cover-up artists who fix them. Tommy Helm, Big Gus and Jasmine Rodriguez are among the most revered cover-up artists in the business, and they employ their years of experience to undo their client’s ill-conceived tats. Watch as they work their magic and turn “disasterpieces” into new works of art.

Drama set at the end of World War Two in China. A young woman, fighting for the independence of her homeland is tortured for the whereabouts of the treasure left by her war profiteer father.

Ufa tattoo artist covers traces of violence with flowers.

With great expressive freedom, Diana Toucedo transports us to a seaside village in Galicia. We are invited to observe the work of the women who collect shellfish, and hear from their own voices their relationship with their trade, the heritage of matriarchy and their sense of belonging. Sailors at sea complement this genuine and devoted community of workers.

Ang Babae sa Likod ng Mambabatok unravels the multiple layers of the almost mythological figure-living legend, Fang Od, a 92 year old woman who has been called the ‘Last [Traditional] Tattoo Artist of Kalinga.’ The first layer of the story is the one she is most famous for-being a tattoo artist. At her eyes, she continues to exhibit sharpness and precision in the very demanding art and skill of tattooing. The second layer shows her many stories as woman who has reached the age of looking back. She regales us with stories of her many suitors, of her youth, the dancing and the feasts. She also looks back with not just a tinge of regret that she never married nor had children of her own. Her body covered in tattoos is a landscape on its own mirroring the map of a woman who has chosen wittingly or unwittingly a road diverging from convention and in the process became a culture-bearer.

The protagonist receives a job offer from a prestigious company, but is in danger of losing it due to something her father posted on social media years ago.

AD 1898, due to Yuan informants, the Hundred Days Reform failed, Guangxu emperor was imprisoned in Yingtai Empress. Maintenance of the palace of Lu 2 generation mason origin, in order to take over the rest of Yuanmingyuan project, the plan will be plotting the Emperor Kuang Hsu tattoo in a bid to rob money shops to enter the grounds of the University of disabilities Tianlao rescue.

A documentary/roadmovie about the trip that Jón Páll and Fjölnir, two of the best tattoo-artists in Iceland, took on motorcycles to the Faroe Islands in the summer of 2009. They opened a tattoo-shop in Klaksvik in the Faroes as a way to get to know the natives and their customs in a more personal and intimate way. They visited the local people, went to festivals and tried Faroen customs. A film about motorcycles, music, tattoos and the Faroes – where Rock’n Roll meets folk traditions!

This documentary dives into the expansive world of Japanese tattoo artists - the hori-shi - and offers a gritty take of the rich culture and masterful artistry behind the traditions in Japanese tattoo making.

Toei film directed by Misao Arai involving a young woman getting tattooed.

Mankind has made many efforts to understand what has been happening in nature, and for those phenomena that it wasn’t able to grasp, it created symbols in order to materialize them. Today, any drawing on the body is named a tattoo. This documentary is a pursuit of the secret meaning behind the tattoos of Şanlıurfa, known as “deq, daki vesm, döğün”.

"Tattoo is like a film noir situated on a different planet. The story is about a group of petty criminals, basically kids hanging around on street-corners, in a sleepy Chinese coastal town. Leizi is a member of the local militia, but bored stiff. With tough friends like Hei-di, his girlfriend Ah-hua who prostitutes herself, and Qingmao who has just returned from prison, Leizi spends his time drinking and keeping the neighbourhood awake. They extort money from Ah-hua's clients and sell things for the local gangster, Mr. Lian. When Leizi meets the righteous daughter of the Christian foreman, he starts having his doubts about his lifestyle. But the chain of violence, starting with extortion and kidnapping and ending in murder, has already started and no one can escape it." - IFFR