
Birthday:
06-16-1965
(59 years)
Birthplace:
Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
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Sixteen
event2007
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A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress.
Angel in the Toilet
Act like Shadow
event1999 star_border 4.5
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The story of an angel who encounters a series of men in a public toilet. A fable about identity.
Police
event2001 star_border 2
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Natsuo, a new gay detective, has his first experience with Koide, but he secretly has feelings for Kirino, a senior detective. One late night, Natsuo and Kirino, who were on duty, hunt down a convenience store robbery, but are instead caught and tortured. Disillusioned with Kirino, Natsuo gradually rejects Koide. Frustrated, Koide starts going to the bar, meets Kirino by chance, and buys him with money...
Groper Train: The Touch of a Married Woman
Act like Office worker
event1995
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"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.
社内恋愛 ゆれる女ごころ
Director
event2016
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Ami Hirabayashi, an office lady who works for a trading company, was spending a little nervous days ahead of her 30th birthday. She has a lover, Keiichi Haraguchi, who is three years younger than her, but her relationship is kept secret around her. She's about to get married, but she doesn't seem to propose to Keiichi. Ami, who has a sober personality, doesn't mind that Keiichi, who is good-looking and good at spoiling, is being targeted by the women around her. She always thinks negative things, "She will be thrown away someday." One day, the two of them played a big game ...
Females
Director
event2008
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A problematic work depicting the bold sexual life of young people! After getting drunk and returning home, Minako collides with a man named Kurushima and falls, and is carried to the room by him, and is embraced without resistance.
Dirty Scoundrels
Director
event2001 star_border 3.7
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Yuji is an engaged businessman, who decides to grope Asuka, a pretty young girl, on a busy Tokyo commuter train. The cheap thrill turns expensive as Yuji discovers she took this opportunity to steal his wallet. Later on, Asuka finds Yuji and approaches him with an indecent partnership proposal. This film is another quality installment from the Chikan Densha Groper Train series – the longest running film series in the world. (Over 500 Groper Train films have been made!)
Sticky Wife, Begging Wife
Assistant Director
event1997 star_border 2
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The story is about a swap between two couples...
A Testimony as an Image
Director
event2002
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In this documentary, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, who first worked with Akira Kurosawa on RASHOMON, catches up with many members of the crew, including cowriter Shinobu Hashimoto and assistant director Tokuzo Tanaka. They talk about the screenplay’s evolution, difficulties during the shooting of the film, and Kurosawa’s working methods.
Eyes on Me
Director
event1999 star_border 5.2
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After the death of his wife, Yukio has become more and more paranoid, believing that he is being followed and watched at all times. Yukio's late wife, before her death, was seeing and sleeping with another man. Not only did Yukio know about the affair, he would watch them have sex. Unbeknownst to his wife, his peeping on her became like a fetish. As the film progresses, Yukio goes to see a counselor to try and figure out his phobia and discover his deep repressed thoughts about his wife. In comes Akemi, Yukio's ex-girlfriend from almost a decade prior. Akemi is unhappy with her marriage and seeks the warm embrace of Yukio, which only furthers his descent into madness.
Reunion
Director
event2011
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Yoichi quits his research position at university after quarreling with his professor and works as a temporary lecturer at a cram school. He is over thirty and thinks about his next steps in life, but can't bring himself to marry his long-time girlfriend. At which point he encounters Tsukiyo, a love interest from his high school days.
I love him, I want to be hugged by him
Director
event2013
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An eros drama that tells the love story between an older married woman he meets on a trip and a young man who is attracted to her. Yuichi is slammed on a trip with his lover, Eri, and visits a tourist spot alone, where he meets an older woman, Misa. Yuichi, who has no inn, will stay at Misa's house for a while ...
The Breed
Assistant Director
event2000
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Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
The Farmers Bride: I Want to See You
Director
event2014 star_border 5
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Mizutani Kei, who starred in the V Cinema production A Weather Woman that also gained popularity overseas, gives a delightfully humorous performance as the battling protagonist who gives up a glamorous nightclub career to take up farming. Thirty-five-year-old bar worker Yukie (Mizutani) marries customer Jotaro (Hamada Manabu), the eldest son of a farming family. She revels in the humble joy of being a farmer's wife. Then one day, a man named Mishima (Yoshioka Mutsuo) who once deceived Yukie reappears, and seeks a physical relationship with her.
Obscene Songs of Lost People
Director
event2001 star_border 2
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Ryohei, a gay gangster, dreams of becoming a full-fledged gangster, even though he is bossed around by his elder brother Yamabe. One day, Yamabe accidentally kills Morishima, a member of the gang's leadership. Thinking that he will be killed by the gang if he continues like this, Yamabe takes Ryohei with him to an abandoned house deep in the mountains to dispose of Morishima's body...
Meshû: Torokeru Kashin
Assistant Director
event1996 star_border 2
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Based on the world of Taiyo Matsumoto's manga "Tekkonkinkreet" this film sublimates the story of a young girl crow and a seagull living a free and unrestrained life into a mythological tale. In the mysterious futuristic landscape of the waterfront subcenter when there were few leisure facilities, the film powerfully depicts the struggles and battles of the vital life force that pervades the city.
Love Me for Hundreds of Years
Director
event2012
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One of the 2nd season of "Love & Eros CINEMA COLLECTION" where various directors draw their love stories on the theme of sexuality and love. Starring Kurumi Morishita, a former popular AV actress, she depicts the mysterious experience of an old woman. Yuka, who lost her husband Kozo in a car accident shortly after getting married, loses her age due to the shock. Her daughter, Ayaka, has grown up to be nearly 30 years old, but Yuka's appearance remains almost the same as Ayaka's. One day, Yuka takes care of a woman named Emi who was drunk on the roadside, and Emi gives her a spell to thank her. The next day, Yuka finds an unfamiliar door in the basement of the library where she works, and meets Kozo, who died 30 years ago, at the door.
Fall Into The Blue
Director
event2006 star_border 2
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Yasuko and Shizuka, friends and coworkers, come to be so much more after a terrible incident involving Shizuka’s boyfriend. After an intense fight that left Shizuka with a black eye, she takes her revenge by bludgeoning her boyfriend in the head, leaving his lifeless body on the bathroom floor. Yasuko pledges her support to Shizuka and tells her its all going to be ok, and that she will help take care of the body. The two women share a bed while staying with Yasuko’s sister, and things start to get hot and heavy.
Dating site for married women
Screenplay
event2002 star_border 4
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Satoko, a married woman who repeats flings using a dating site using her mobile phone. One day, she meets Atsushi, a designer blinded by an accident, and suddenly begins to take care of him and love grows between them.
End of the World
First Assistant Director
event1995
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A fugitive man and woman (Kawase, Kawana) come to an island to retrieve their son (Iwasaki), who the woman has given to a foster family, but the son's foster parents are policemen (Ito)... The suspense surrounding the retrieval of the son is made unusual by the location shooting on the vast and desolate Miyakejima Island and leads to an allegorical drama about the essential desires of human beings. This was Kawase Yota's first appearance in a Zeze film, and he has since become a regular actor. The title of the film at the time of its first release was Sukebe Tenkomori.
Rafureshia
Assistant Director
event1995 star_border 6
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Fearing dead-end futures, abused schoolgirl Alisa and neglected housewife Harumi plan a new life together, bankrolled by a bag of stolen cash. But with an incestuous father and a jealous mother-in-law in hot pursuit, their journey to the other side of the night becomes longer — and stranger — than they could’ve expected.
Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi
Assistant Director
event1993 star_border 5.6
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A boy, abandoned by the whole family - torn apart by obsessions, perversions and problems of every kind-start looking at everything around him through the eye of the camera, so that nothing can seem flat and keep up hope. The meeting between these two lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.
The Fetist
Production Manager
event1998 star_border 7.1
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In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse.
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