Yasuji no Pornorama: Yacchimae!!

Scrawny, awkward, and absolutely convinced that Japanese society has figured out food but completely failed the human libido, Pusu-o has a thesis, and he's sticking to it — mostly because his own romantic life is a nonstop disaster of clumsy come-ons and spectacular rejections, each more exaggerated than the last. This 1971 animated film from Tokyo TV Douga is based on Tanioka Yasuji's manga, and it carries that source material's grotesque, rubbery art style front and center. Characters are distorted, expressions are unhinged, and the whole thing has this chaotic energy that feels less like polished animation and more like someone's fever dream scribbled into motion. It's crude, deliberately so, but underneath the absurdity there's a satirical edge poking at social norms around desire, repression, and what people won't say out loud in polite company. If you've watched Belladonna of Sadness or Cleopatra from the same era and appreciated how early Japanese animation used adult content to say something stranger and more interesting than the surface material implied, this sits in that same weird neighborhood. It's rougher and far less serious than either of those, but that's kind of the point. Historically, it's a genuinely early example of adult-oriented animation in Japan, which makes it interesting beyond just the content itself. Go in expecting something abrasive, odd, and deliberately uncomfortable rather than polished or romantic.