Known for Camera
Birthplace
Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan
Filmography
76 films, 1 show


Meisou Kazoku
2025 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Omnibus film that was created through an industry-academia collaboration project in which students from the Film Department of Osaka University of Arts teamed up with professionals in the film industry. It consists of three episodes, two directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and one by Satoshi Kaneda.


Gonin Saga
2015 · 2h 10m
country: Japan
Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato, Daisuke and Asami.


Sweet Whip
2013 · 2h 24m
country: Japan
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.


Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend
2013 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.


My Departure
2012 · 1h 49m
country: Japan
Drama depicting two men and a woman, each with their own issues, who head for Fukui, and their maturity and rejuvenation through travel. Recently retired Nishina Kosuke goes to meet his first love, who he got to know as a pen pal 42 years ago. For Kagawa Yuika, raised by a single mother, Fukui is a place seeped with memories of her father. And, violinist Kuga Hikari is trying to break through a slump.


Yamagata Scream
2009 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr. Kachi, plans a mandatory club trip to a small village called Oshakabe in Yamagata prefecture to study remnants of an ancient clan of warriors called the ochimusha who displayed legendary cowardice in battle. When they arrive, the local villagers hold a special ceremony and construct a "super shrine". As a result, an 800-year seal is broken, unleashing a curse that causes the ochimusha to rise from the grave.


The Triumphant Return of General Rouge
2009 · 2h 3m
country: Japan
A year after the celebrated cracking of “The Glorious Team Batista” case, the talented medical staff at Tojo University Hospital once again finds itself embroiled in a web of intrigue and scandal.The scandal occurs this time in the ER when a mysterious letter arrives for Dr. Kimiko Taguichi. The letter reads: “Chief Surgeon Hayami of the Emergency Center has a collusive relationship with a medical supplies maker. And the head nurse is in on it with him.” An unimaginable truth then awaits.


Kitaro
2007 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Kitaro is a half human, half creature who keeps an eye on the human society to save them from the evil attacks from another world. He finds that a magical ball that controls all powers had been brought into the human world, and stops it from falling into the wrong hands.


The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
2007 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.


Island of Light
2006 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
Hiromi, attends junior high school in Tokyo. The combination of getting bullied on campus and her fathers death causes her to stop attending school. One day she is invited by her online friend, Kenmun, to visit him on Ishigaki Island. Hiromi sets out to meet Kenmun, however, Hiromi has another reason to go to Ishigaki Island. She may be able to see her mother who left when she was a child. Will she be able to find her long lost mother? More importantly, will she be able to find happiness in life?


Princess in an Iron Helmet
2006 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Tamako is 20 years old, lives at home with her mother (Kishimoto Kayoko) and teenaged brother, and simply refuses to grow up. Ever since her father left the family, she's stopped trusting people, and now lounges around in her own small, claustrophobic world. Wearing an iron helmet whenever she steps outside, she ventures only to her mom's beauty salon, the mechanic shop, and the bakery - the source of her greatest joy in life, sweet buns. Her world is static, insular, and safe, and there's no need to change - that is until her cat runs away, the bakery closes, and her mom falls in love with another man.


Sayonara Color
2005 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Shohei works as a doctor in a seaside hospital. One day, a new patient is admitted to the hospital with ovarian cancer. Shohei is surprised to recognize Michiko, his first love from high school. Shohei has been leading a dissolute bachelor life, paying for the company of high school girls and dating an older woman who works in a local bar, but in reality, for the last twenty years, he has not forgotten Michiko. Unfortunately though, Michiko doesn't remember him at all. Shohei becomes more and more persistent in his attempts to get her to recall their past. At first she is annoyed by his overtures, but gradually warms to the doctor. Under Shohei's kind and patient care, Michiko's condition improves and her cancer becomes operable. The operation is a success, but now Shohei himself learns that he has terminal cancer.


g@me.
2003 · 1h 52m
country: Japan
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to play the victim of his bogus kidnapping. The movie is based on the novel Geimu No Na Wa Yuukai ('The name of the game is kidnapping') by popular mystery novelist Keigo Higashino.


Shooting Stars in the Twilight
2002 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
Hiromi works in a posh French restaurant. One day, he meets an ordinary-looking old man who has a discerning palate. He is no ordinary cook, and can pinpoint the exact problems with Hiromi's dishes. His name is Tatematsu Ippei, a legendary chef renowned for his work in France once upon a time. After a food poisoning mishap, his fiance Sophie had left him and he cut himself off from the culinary world. Hiromi is engrossed with Ippei's cuisine and asks for lessons. Meanwhile, Sophie, now the wife of the director of a top tableware manufacturer, comes to Japan. Ippei cooks a banquet for her using Hiromi's restaurant as a front. Sophie notices that the food is made by Ippei, her former lover. The two meet and enjoy a short-lived reunion, but go on to live their own separate lives.


Quartet for Two
2001 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who works for a construction company, loves her job and is progressing in her successful career, while her husband eagerly takes care of the house and the kids. He buys groceries, he cooks, he does the laundry – constantly. The couple’s arguing intensifies until Minaka files for divorce. Their older daughter Mari isn’t that upset by her parent’s problems as she’s more interested in the piano piece she’s got to play with her mother at a concert organised by her music school; admittedly, she’s also rather interested in her music teacher. But her younger brother Toru feels betrayed by his mother and can’t manage to reconcile himself to his father’s role as a housewife. A partial reconciliation occurs at Minako and Mari’s concert, where their entrance on stage is met with loud applause.
Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home
2000 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .


Freeze Me
2000 · 1h 41m
country: Japan
When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her attackers.


The Pig's Retribution
1999 · 1h 58m
country: Japan
A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed up and sun-bleached bones.


Zankyo
1999 · 1h 51m
country: Japan
The story of Iwaki, a young brawler who becomes a professional criminal when he joins a Yakuza clan.


The Perfect Education
1999 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.


Tokyo Fair Weather
1997 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.


The President's Christmas Tree
1996 · 1h 46m
country: Japan


Gonin 2
1996 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and caused the death of his wife. Before long, the yakuza and Toyama arrive at the women's hideout.


Secret Liaisons
1995 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
Movie adaptation of a novel by Rampo Edogawa.


Gonin
1995 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.


119
1994 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…


The Mystery of Rampo
1994 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.


Evil Dream
1994 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
The bus driver Nakatsuka Yukihiko saw in his dream the sexual fantasies involving one of his regular female passengers - Noriko Otomo. On the other hand, she sees the same dreams.


A Night in Nude
1993 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.


Maohgai
1993 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life. Through his old schoolfriend Daimon he meets the attractive Yoshie and spends a sensational night of love with her. Kishi doesn't want to leave it at one night. On their second meeting, Daimon is also present and this night turns into a sado-masochistic ritual. A suppressed memory emerges in Kishi: once he raped an elderly woman with Daimon. Kishi again crossed a frontier this night and the relationship with his colleague Yuko also breaks boundaries. He slowly realises that his emotional life is taking a direction that he had never dreamed possible; Kishi moves into a new and dark world.


Bad Boy Blue
1992 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Akio, who works at a gas station, earned his large motorcycle license and finally got his hands on the GSX1100S KATANA he’d always wanted. Devoting more affection to his bike than to his girlfriend Risa, he silently continues to test-run the engine. One day, Akio meets Mioko, a tough-talking junior at Risa’s high school. She had a crush on Akio’s friend Takashi, but at the same time, she had caught the eye of Kikuchida, a member of a delinquent gang.


Aijin: A Lover
1992 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
"Won't you be my lover? Unless there are some rules..."


Original Sin
1992 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.


Fifteen Girl Island Diary
1992 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
Fifteen girls who went on an expedition to an uninhabited island are left behind because their ship sank. The girls' survival begins.


A Legend of Turmoil
1992 · 1h 50m
country: Japan
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.


Nowhere Man
1991 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.


1750 Days of Turbulence
1990 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.


Shin Virgin Boys Story: Hong Kong Virgin Boy
1990 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
The Virgin Boy's Story enters a new era and back on the big screen as the Titular Boy Kenji just wants to be a Hong Kong Movie star but finds himself caught in a Triad conflict instead!


Violent Cop
1989 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and yakuza activities.


Virgin Boy's Story 2 Cherry Boys
1988 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
The Boys are trying to lose their virginity on the school trip to Tokyo.


Door
1988 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.


Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
1988 · 1h 14m
country: Japan
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.


Bomber Bikers of Shonan
1987 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Based on the popular comic, “Shonan Bakusozoku” illustrates the lives of high school bike fanatics.


Roman-ko Club: Ecchi ga Ippai
1986 · 59m
country: Japan
Eight female members of a high school drama club try various erotic ways to raise money to put on a play.


Kyûkyoku onanie: Yume jigoku
1986 · 1h 11m
country: Japan
Hitomi has ended her "affair" with a man and taken the first step towards a new life. She then starts a new relationship, but it turns into a love triangle. Furthermore, she knows it will be difficult to step in between a man and a woman who are passionately expressing their true feelings to each other, so she steps aside. Hitomi discovers a new form of love and grows up in a new way...


Saya: Perspective in Love
1986 · 1h 42m
country: Japan
Erotic thriller about a porn photographer who has to deal with a psychopath.


Tōsatsu mania: Furaidē no on'na
1986 · 1h 2m
country: Japan


South to the Horizon
1986 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Tetsu's girlfriend and Max an ex US soldier to extract revenge.


Subway Serial Rape: Office Lady Hunting
1986 · 1h
country: Japan
A woman, who now lives with a detective, gets a call from her former boyfriend. He is fresh out of prison and wants her back... now!


Apartment Wife: Ass Slave
1985 · 1h 7m
country: Japan
An animator with a butt fixation receives a surprise visit from a woman he had an affair with while in Brazil. But a switched suitcase at a traffic backup and a goofy gang of criminals tests their relationship.


Yarinko Chie: Ichijiku Shinsatsu-dai
1985 · 1h 2m
country: Japan


Waisetsuna onna: Kuroi hada ni naku
1985 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
A married couple, Fumio Asakura and Kumiko, enjoyed having pleasure in each other by taking pictures during sex. Kumiko met her old friend from school, Fuko because her husband went on a business trip for three days. They go to a disco in Tachikawa and are almost attacked by three young Japanese. Fuko calls on a black man named Bill, who lives close to Kumiko...


Cute Devil
1984 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
Shinichi Muraoka is a struggling salesman. His wife, Kanako, has grown cold towards him, and he still hasn't achieved his dream of becoming a novelist, leading a dull life. But even Shinichi has one thing he looks forward to. During the day, he skips sales to go to a Turkish bathhouse. It's meeting Miyuki, who works there. For Shinichi, the kind-hearted Miyuki is like an oasis. Miyuki soothes Shinichi's weary heart and body without charging a service fee... One night, Shinichi has an unbelievable experience. The woman in the car that nearly hit him was the spitting image of Miyuki... A sweet romantic porn film with the seductive whispers of the mischievous Hiromi Aoki.


Nyan Nyan Musume
1984 · 57m
country: Japan
A young wife who is bored with her ordinary life is reunited with her former lover and embarks on a journey of robbery.


Kuroi bokan: fukei o osou
1984 · 59m
country: Japan
Detective Inspector Tenma Ippei and his girlfriend, female detective Date Mari, were working together to track down a brother and sister, Kyoichi, Kyoji, and Kyoko, who were serial rapists and murderers. They broke into a hospital, raped and murdered a nurse, and continued their crimes one after another, including gang-raping Tenma's partner, Misaki, before brutally murdering him along with Tenma when he arrived. Mari was dismissed from her job, but vowed revenge for Tenma and began acting on her own...


The Serial Rape Murderer
1983 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who killed her sister has a red snake tattoo on his thigh. Suffering from the memory and deeply being traumatized, Fuyuko meets the tattooed man by accident and tries to hunt down...
密写 ホテトル25時
密写 ホテトル25時
1983 · 1h 4m
country: Japan
Pink film distributed by Toei.


Molester Train: Touch Me
1983 · 1h 1m
country: Japan
"Groper Train" pink film that parodies the live variety show "Morita Kazuyoshi Hour Waratte Iitomo!"
Crying Rope, Missing Black Hair
Crying Rope, Missing Black Hair
1983 · 1h 2m
country: Japan
Pink film distributed by Toei Central Film.


Molester's Train: Rumiko's Ass
1983 · 1h
country: Japan
A man dies, leaving only the clue that his killer is "E.T." How will a detective solve this mystery?


Groper Train: Good Office Lady, Bad Office Lady, Normal Office Lady
1983 · 1h
country: Japan
On his way to work, Shinji tried to grope Namiko on the train, but she remained unfazed, causing him to lose motivation. That night, while he and his younger brother Mamoru were looking for women in the entertainment district, Namiko approached them. The three went to a hotel, but Mamoru was rejected, so the next day he groped Yoshiko on the train. Yoshiko took Mamoru to her apartment and made a move on him. Both Namiko and Yoshiko were office ladies at the same company. And then there was one more. The unattractive Waruyama Daikei, who was never groped by anyone, targeted Shinji and Mamoru and forcibly lured them to a hotel, but...


Ijô seitaiken: Okasareru
1982 · 1h 3m
country: Japan
Kazuko and Akira had no children. Kazuko is examined by a hypertrophy doctor, but there is no abnormality in her uterus. One day, Kazuko is raped by her husband, but is saved by her older brother Tadao. Akira was diagnosed with azoospermia based on his medical records. However, Kazuko did not tell her husband about this. She carries out a plan to continue her relationship with Tadao because her husband wants a child...
Groper Train: Massaging on the Way to Work
Groper Train: Massaging on the Way to Work
1982 · 1h
country: Japan
"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.
Groper Train: Good Boy, Bad Boy, Ordinary Girl
Groper Train: Good Boy, Bad Boy, Ordinary Girl
1981 · 1h 2m
country: Japan
"Groper Train" distributed by Shintoho.


Groper Train: Crowded Interior
1981 · 1h
country: Japan
"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.