Ryūichi Hiroki (廣木 隆一 Hiroki Ryūichi, born January 1, 1954) is a Japanese film director. He won critical acclaim for 800 Two Lap Runners. Film critic and researcher Alexander Jacoby has described Hiroki as "one of the modern Japanese cinema's most intelligent students of character".
In many parts of Tokyo redevelopment is afoot, and the cityscape continues to change at a rapid pace. While on the surface Japan is easy to live in, many Japanese still feel a sense of emptiness in the aftermath of the shattered economic bubble, a condition that prevents them from making a change. Autumn 2006. Eight "normal" young women living in Tokyo--eight women now in the middle of change.
Release Date2008-01-12
Charactersd Self
Hikari's boyfriend is one of those killed in the Akihabara massacre incident. Suffering from the shock of her loss and unable to accept this reality, she cuts herself off from the outside world. She eventually manages to muster enough courage to visit Akihabara, the scene of the incident. There, she encounters many people who are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the incident and are still suffering from the aftereffects.
Release Date2011-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Professor Shirô Sakaki, a butterfly researcher, confesses to turning six young boys, including his own son Itaru, into "human specimens."
Release Date2025-12-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya and asks if he can become his apprentice. Kamiya is a genius type of comedian who is full of human kindness. He accepts Tokunaga’s proposition on the condition that he will write his biography.
Release Date2016-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count28
While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcoming her initial reluctance to open up to the writer, Emi talks about her busted leg and her childhood friendship with the chronically ill Yuka.
Release Date2008-07-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
Release Date2004-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Shuichi had a motorcycle accident 4 years ago. Because of the accident, he lost the last year of his memory. One day, at a friend's wedding, Shuichi has a fateful meeting with Yoshimi. They enjoy happy times together and Shuichi thinks about marrying Yoshimi. Then Yoshimi becomes sick. A sad truth is hidden in the lost memory of Shuichi.
Release Date2013-07-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without arms and legs, and the 28 students in his 5th grade class, told from the vantage point of school board member Yusaku Shiraishi
Release Date2013-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This erotically charged drama traces the intersecting stories of a group of employees and visitors at a notorious "love hotel" in Tokyo's red-light district.
Release Date2014-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count41
Erika Shinohara is a first year of high school student. While talking to friends, she makes up a story about her "boyfriend." In reality, Erika Shinohara doesn't have a boyfriend. Erika's friends soon begin to doubt her story and Erika is also running out of lies. Erika then sees a pretty boy on the street and takes his picture discreetly. She later shows his picture to her friends as her boyfriend. The boy in the picture is Kyouya Sata and happens to attend the same school as Erika. She tells Kyouya about her situation and asks him to be her pretend boyfriend. Even though Kyouya has a pretty appearance, he has a dark side.
Release Date2016-05-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count65
Naoto, the son of a wealthy family, suffers from Werner syndrome, a premature aging condition; Dai is an overweight child troubled by his penniless father's drunken violence; Jun, a gifted student, is the foursome's natural leader; and Tetsuro is average...
Release Date2003-07-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late into the night, Atsuya sees a letter in the mailbox. The letter is addressed to the Namiya General Store and the letter was written by someone to consult about worries. Incredibly, the letter was written 32 years ago. The mailbox is somehow connected to the year 1980. Atsuya and his friends decide to write a reply and place their letter in the mailbox.
Release Date2017-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count47
Ninako Kinoshita has never been in love until an encounter with the school's most popular boy, Ren Ichinose, leads the two to befriending each other. Ren's patient and kind personality is a far cry from his unapproachable idol status at school, and soon Ninako falls in love with him. However, she must cope with the fact that he already has a long-time girlfriend.
Release Date2015-03-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count45
Based on the novel "Kanojo no Jinsei wa Machigai ja Nai" (literal translation: Her life is not at fault) by Director Hiroki, it is a powerful story of survivors, who are all trying to find their own silver linings in life.
Release Date2017-07-15
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count15
'Female' is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, Ryuichi Hiroki, Miwa Nishikawa, and Suzuki Matsuo.
Release Date2005-05-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at her grandmother’s house in the countryside. When her grandmother dies, Tsugumi Dozono decides to live in the house full-time, and to work from there as well. However, one day she encounters a middle-aged man in the house, who tells Tsugumi that her grandmother gave him a key to the annex house when he was her student. The two share the property, although Tsugumi still does not know the exact relationship that her grandmother had with this man.
Release Date2015-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this letter, the couple become estranged...
Release Date2013-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Release Date2011-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Two sets of parents divorce and marry each other, while their children Miki and Yuu are caught in the middle and start falling for each other.
Release Date2018-04-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count28
Set during the Edo Period, a young man from a noble family meets a young woman under a special tree called "Raiou" (the tree was struck by lightning at one time with the broken part eventually sprouting out cherry blossoms). The young woman lived freely in the mountains after she was abducted as a young child. The couple soon fall in love under the Raiou tree, but become acutely aware of their different social positions & the ramifications it has on their relationship.
Release Date2010-10-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Natsumi wants to become a photographer. She takes a bike which her late father left behind and goes to a forest to find a firefly she saw with her father. In the forest, Natsumi meets old mother Yasu and old son Jizo. They run a general store. Natsumi learns how to live in nature from them. She has happy summer days there. One day, Jizo tells her that he became estranged from his son in the past.
Release Date2016-06-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Osanai Kei enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Osanai Kozue and daughter Osanai Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Osanai Kei's life suddenly changes. One day, a man named Misumi Akihiko visits Osanai Kei. Misumi Akihiko tells him that on the day Osanai Kozue and Osanai Ruri died, Osanai Ruri, who was a complete stranger to him, was coming to see him. Misumi Akihiko tells him about a woman named Masaki Ruri, who he once loved. These people, who don't seem related, connect under the name of love.
Release Date2022-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Yoshio is a man who works for the city's water department and live with his mother. He regularly visits to the SM Queen Miho, but he still cannot forget the legendary SM Queen Yukiko.
Release Date2022-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
Sayaka, a high school student, kills herself but the reason behind her suicide is unknown. She appeared to have led a normal life with her family. Her mother Rumiko seemed to have raised Sayaka with love and care. In reality, that does not seem to be the case. When the mother and daughter recall the same incidents that took place in the past, they tell very different stories.
Release Date2022-11-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count12
Rei is a freelance writer embattled by personal demons. She hears voices in her head, and has sleeping problems, eating disorders and drinks excessively. On Valentine's Day, she meets truck driver Takatoshi. She joins him on a journey in his bumpy and shaky truck - which vibrates in tune with her uneasy soul.
Release Date2003-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
Modeled on Setouchi Jakucho, Inoue Mitsuharu, and his wife, 2 women depicts the special relationship between a man and two women, based on the novel by Inoue Areno, the eldest daughter of Inoue.
Release Date2022-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"
Release Date2003-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A S&M comedy about a masochist barber.
Release Date2002-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Sawako, working in a bank, tired of the usual everyday life, once she met the chef of French cuisine Yukio Goto and spent the night with him. Sawako pretends to be the daughter of an upscale hotel owner and has an affair with Yukio.
Release Date1990-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. Based on the true story of Chie Nagashima, a women afflicted with breast cancer and her husband Taro Akasu.
Release Date2009-05-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Nagisa, a high school girl who has been given three months to live. Without telling her widowed father where she is going, she sets out from the city to the small town where she was born. She recalls her childhood memories, and her love for Satoshi begins to grow stronger. However, she is shocked to discover that Satoshi is having an affair with Eriko, a married woman.
Release Date2007-06-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The first-person protagonist is a 27-year-old freelance writer who returns to her hometown from Tokyo, and she gets together with high school friend Satsuki and cameraman Suga to see Shiina, who they all admired in high school. Along the way, vivid memories from high school replay in the protagonist's mind.
Release Date2018-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Kurosaki is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his living room to use for inspiration in his writing. His wife Shizuko calls him a pervert but on the inside, she feels physically neglected. She tries to make him jealous, while also going after what she desires with someone else.
Release Date2000-09-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Miyuki doesn't need to stalk the man she's crazy about, because he lives one floor down. Rather than approach him, she digs through his trash.
Release Date2000-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
A young woman named Miyuki returns to her hometown, camera in hand, after a difficult breakup. As she walks and takes photographs, she meets a variety of people and begins to realize she doesn’t have to go through this painful time in her life all alone.
Release Date2009-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Midori is a coming-of-age drama set amongst the heady high school world of peer rivalry and sexual awakening, featuring an emotionally-detached high-school girl who, her parents dead, lives with her brother and his overprotective wife. After being sent out of class due to a dizzy spell, she becomes acquainted with Shun, a boy in the class below, in the school sanatorium. As the two begin feigning illness together on a regular basis, their uncomfortable flirtations soon blossom into a full sexual relationship.
Release Date1996-06-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Release Date1984-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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.
Release Date1993-08-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Based on an award winning novel, It's Only Talk is about the life of Yuko, a 35-year old woman. She is single and unemployed, and suffers from manic depression. The movie begins with Yuko moving to Kamata Town.
Release Date2006-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
Another psychodrama, this time revolving around an SM club.
Release Date2001-08-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Saeko works at a bar, and she is waitng for her lover Huyuhiko who was jailed. One day, Huyuhiko comes back. He starts working, but soon he quit the job and grow desperate. Saeko supports Huyuhiko, but because of the debt, she was raped...
Release Date1982-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The mother is unfulfilled, the father has affairs, the son fantasizes and the budding daughter is growing curious. Just your normal family until a right-wing bi-sexual teacher shows up and causes chaos.
Release Date1981-02-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director Trainee
Vote Count3
A coming-of-age story about two runners, Kenji and Ryuji, tangled in love, loss, and rivalry, as they navigate complex emotions and relationships.
Release Date1994-07-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Release Date2016-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1999-07-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost after the accident and eventually decides to teach again on a small island where his mother was born. The children there on the island quickly name him "Kikansha Sensei" (Teacher Locomotive) after learning he is mute. The parents on the island are mostly hostile to Seigo Yoshioka, believing he is incapable of teaching their children. But with Seigo Yoshioka's determination and kindness, a strong bond develops between the students and the mute teacher, which then changes the parents' opinions of Seigo Yoshioka. Suddenly, tragedy then strikes ...
Release Date2004-07-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Documentary about the art of Japanese bondage.
Release Date2007-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
A young wife who is bored with her ordinary life is reunited with her former lover and embarks on a journey of robbery.
Release Date1984-06-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
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.
Release Date1994-04-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A film about love and winter sports.
Release Date1995-12-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1984-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Two high school girls, an older sister and a married woman all vie for the attention of a tutor. Needless to say not much studying gets done.
Release Date1984-10-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
This seven-episode anthology features a cast of leading actors and depicts various forms of "love," such as love almost forgotten, love between sons and mothers, and love that transcends borders.
Release Date2022-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count18
Yuri, who works at the ticket window at a ferry terminal, is one-eyed. One day, she is held at knifepoint and locked away in captivity by an enigmatic man named Kwon, who has missed a ferry. At the very moment Yuri learns that Kwon has supernatural powers. As Kwon and Yuri become closer to each other, Yuri's friend, Akiyama, accidentally finds the secret of Yuri's supernatural power. Yuri has the ability to go back in time. As the price for her supernatural ability, Yuri becomes blind in one eye. In the meantime, Kwon gets shot by mysterious men. Yuri, who has started feeling affection for Kwon, tries to save him using her special power again.
Release Date2008-11-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Eight female members of a high school drama club try various erotic ways to raise money to put on a play.
Release Date1986-12-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
I do not stand in the case of emergency! The beautiful married woman who knew the delicate trouble of virginity…. A case full of joys and sorrows that the virginity pervert man who I outrun an emergency brake of the reason, and dashes causes.
Release Date1981-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
A parody paying homage to Nobuhiko Obayashi's masterpiece Exchange Students , released a year prior to this film. Amidst the slapstick chaos of a man and woman whose minds and bodies are accidentally swapped, this gem explores the preciousness and poignancy of truly loving someone.
Release Date1984-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Akira had to transfer schools upon graduation because of her father's job. She was reluctant to move because of her secret love for Nao...
Release Date2006-07-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Mixed up by desire, love and hatred, a disturbed young man begins tailing and eventually tries to save his neighbor, a housewife who has turned to prostitution despite her comfortable lifestyle.
Release Date2006-10-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
In a room with only a bed, Shizumi's left hand was somehow fixed to the bed by handcuffs and chains. "Who is this man?", "Why am I sleeping like this?" Shizumi who woke up with a terrible headache started to recall the memory from last light...
Release Date1995-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.
Release Date2021-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count177
This work is an ensemble drama in which three cleaners who specialize in erasing the dirt of the past, and a reporter who exposes the mistakes of the past. In Kinshicho, Sumida Ward, Tokyo, at the house cleaning shop “Seiriseiton,” three childhood friends work together: Kaku Kento portrays the president Kinomoto, Emoto Tokio as the wheelchair bound Yu-chan, and their junior colleague. They clean places with complicated backgrounds, such as the company ruined by a young enterpeuner who was seen as “The Emperor’s New Clothes;” the home of a couple who lost their daughter to bullying ten years ago, and the Filipino pub where a childhood friend worked. Meanwhile, an investigative reporter was posting QR codes around town that, when scanned, would reveal the truth about unsolved cases and scandals.
Release Date2024-07-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count1
Release Date1986-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A gay couple is on good terms with each other. They run a shot bar together and are enjoying their love. Their father was also once a lover, and they vowed to be together in the future, but they split up due to the barriers of the world. They are determined not to follow in the footsteps of their father. One day, at their restaurant, the two fathers meet again for the first time in decades. At first they are at odds with each other, but then the love they once had for each other comes back to life...
Release Date1983-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A timid man with a domineering wife takes S&M lessons to get revenge.
Release Date1986-03-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Six high school sweethearts soon became entangled in three charged couples. Still reeling from their fracturing bond, a dejected Shigeki encountered the alluring office lady Hitomi aboard the ski bus – a woman whose recent quarrel had only heightened her irresistible mystique. In a twist of fate, the other couples experienced their own shifts in passion. Even after returning to Tokyo, the simmering tension refused to cool down. One day, as Shigeki flirted with fate on a date with Hitomi, a part of him still longed for Yuri’s tender allure. While Shinya and Noriyuki plotted another daring ski adventure, all that mattered to Yuri and Shigeki was the desperate need to reclaim their connection. Fate intervened when Yuri was unexpectedly slammed with overtime at her job. In a dramatic twist, Shigeki burst onto the scene to get her to the ski bus. Seated together on the roadside, they bared their hearts in an intimate talk that slowly mended their frayed bond.
Release Date1989-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A pseudo-documentary that follows a director and an actress.
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A famous beauty salon in Harajuku. Junpei and Toshiya, who work there, are a loving couple who live together, although they don't tell the office. One day, like a sudden breeze, a boy named Saburo comes and stays there. Anyway, Saburo, who is as free as the wind, has relationships with the men at the store one after another, and finally ends up with Toshiya. Junpei finds out about this... The start of director Ryūichi Hiroki's trilogy of gay pinku films for ENK Promotion.
Release Date1983-08-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A man with a wound from the past pops up into a gay bar in the South of Osaka. While sheltering him, the bar's owner falls in love with him.
Release Date1985-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
An erotic drama depicting the friendship and love affair between two women living together.
Release Date1988-04-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Release Date1992-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This film is a love story centered around the clumsy yet earnest first love of shy high school boy Nozumu and Kei, a popular girl in his class. It is intertwined with the suspicious death of a classmate, a suicide attempt, and frightening suspicions about a lover.
Release Date2025-10-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Kako, a 16-year-old high school girl, goes to a mixer pretending to be 22. While there, she meets Kouta who at first has a very intimidating aura. But once he saves her from an awkward situation, she wants to know more about him as does he. That is until he finds out she isn't 22. The next day Kako runs into him again, but this time he's working as a police officer. Kako still wants to get closer to Kouta, but he isn't interested or is he?
Release Date2017-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count44
Megu comes from a planet in space. There is a legend from her home world if anyone mates with a virgin Earthling, they will gain eternal life. However, this is limited to sex with a man you love.
Release Date1986-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice.
Release Date2017-08-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count12
Release Date1985-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
At the beginning of the Meiji era, Sayoko, the daughter of a large banker in Tokyo, comes to Sotobo's villa for the first time in eight years, guided by her student, Yasu. In fact, Yasu is the son of Keizo Naya, the keeper of this villa. His father and older sister, Kyoko, live quietly in this place, where people rarely visit, like recluses. Sayoko, who grew up sickly and full of selfishness, treats Yasu, who has feelings for her, like a slave, blindfolds him, makes him help her change clothes, and makes him imitate Sansuke in the bathroom.
Release Date1985-09-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Youth drama about a band.
Release Date1999-02-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A gay couple who started a mini-FM broadcasting station that was all the rage at the time. A middle-aged man who is actually gay, but has given up on his gay sexuality due to public opinion and other factors, appears in front of them in an attempt to regain his true self once again...
Release Date1985-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
A high school student’s mother passes away leaving her alone with her grief. The girl, Marimo, discovers the name of a father she never knew. Marimo sets off to meet him, but is completely shocked when she finds someone very different from the father she envisioned. Her father, Shinpei, a 38-year-old would-be private detective, is shocked too, and doesn’t believe her until he sees the paperwork. With Marimo muttering “The worst father in the world” and Shinpei lamenting the loss of his freedom, these two are about to learn how difficult and rewarding a father/daughter relationship can be.
Release Date2003-07-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Night. Mayumi Kurioka is a nurse. Today is the night shift. As she is patrolling the hallway after the lights are turned off, a man in black stockings suddenly appears, abducts Mayumi, and takes her away in a car...! When she comes to, she is tackled by two men...
Release Date1986-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Eight fictional holidays are taken by actor Ryoma Takeuchi. While taking a break from filming, he visits a spice shop.
Release Date2020-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
After her ex-boyfriend dies, an editor becomes obsessed with his fiancée, a woman accused of swindling multiple men out of money before killing them.
Release Date2013-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
AV video by Ryuichi Hiroki.
Release Date1990-06-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1986-06-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Release Date1986-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Maiko is 24 years old and she has never had a boyfriend. One day, with her father's recommendation, she has a meeting with Harumi about marriage. He is 44-years-old and divorced. At first, Maiko did not want meet Harumi. Yet, as soon as she sees him, she falls in love with him. He is good looking and has a mature personality. Meanwhile, Harumi does not really want to meet Maiko about marriage, but he is unable to say no to her father, who is an important client. He thinks that he will just say no to her during their first meeting, but he becomes attracted to her. On their third date, she gives him paperwork to register for marriage. Harumi and Maiko marry and their marriage life, with a 20 year age gap, begins.
Release Date2020-12-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
TV Tokyo's 60th anniversary special drama. This is a human drama about a doctor struggling with his life and a patient who has been told he has little time left to live, as they travel around the world in search of answers to the eternal questions of what people live for and what they leave behind.
Release Date2024-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Release Date1988-08-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Hana is a woman who works at a CD pressing factory. As usual, she went to work at the factory, where she quietly packed the CDs, and in between, observed the various human patterns that were unfolding in the corner of the factory. On this day, I happened to see a scene where a loan shark-like collection rushed in and questioned the president and his wife. "Hanada is a tutor." On this day, on her way to her home tutor as usual, she met a high school student, put her on the back of her bicycle, and headed home with her. At her house, she begins to put her love motion on Hanada more than usual. Hanataro is a struggling manga artist. A man lives next door who doesn't know what he's doing, but he's interested in a beautiful woman who visits there. On this day as well, he held the cup up against the wall to eavesdrop on the conversation. The three of them were living their usual, unchanging lives, but on this day, they began to feel that something was about to change. (autotranslated)
Release Date2006-06-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Seijiro Ito possesses good looks, but also has an overinflated ego. He gets involved with five different women. Rio Yazaki is one of the women involved with Seijiro Ito. She wants to revive her career as a screenwriter, by using other people's unhappiness.
Release Date2018-01-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Keitai Deka Zenigata Rai follows the adventures of Zenigata Rai (played by Saori Koide), a high school student with a genius IQ of 180, who is also the granddaughter of a legendary police chief. Using her mobile phone as a crucial investigative tool, she helps solve various murder mysteries.
Release Date2006-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count26
Vote Count1
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsuya Fujiwara) begins to produce black fig on Shishikari Island. Because of his well received product, the island is close to receiving a 5 billion yen grant from the government, which is part of the goverment's policy to reinvigorate rural economy. The residents of the island are excited, but their peaceful days changes by the appearance of Mutsuo Komisaka. Keita Izumi and his friends Jun Tanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) and Rookie Police Officer Shinichiro Moriya are suspicious about him. One night, Keita Izumi's daughter goes missing. Due to that, Keita Izumi, Jun Tanabe and Shinichiro Moriya happen to kill Mutsuo Komisaka. They decide to hide Mutsuo Komisaka’s murder to protect the future of the island and their families. It turns out Mutsuo Komisaka was a psycho killer. Police officers come to Shishikari Island to catch Mutsuo Komisaka.
Release Date2022-01-27
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Gigolo antics, very spicy.
Release Date1991-01-01
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Release Date2013-07-18
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Despite the fact that Kyoko's a girl herself, approaching women on the streets and asking them to pose nude for her proves to be quite a chore. At first she accosts every pretty girl that walks by, until Miho catches her eye. Feeling that she has that certain something special, Kyoko insists that Miho pose for her. Her own life floating rudderless after the separation of her parents, Miho accepts, half entertaining the idea to get back at her father, who has gone on to form a new family and who hasn't been in touch with her in years. The two girls walk around town, Kyoko snapping pictures and listening to Miho's stories. Gradually the two young women begin to sense a mutual attraction. When the time comes to get down to the nitty gritty of the nude shots, the girls' defences come down along with their clothes.
Release Date2004-05-12
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Release Date2015-04-22
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Episode Count4
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Release Date2015-02-20
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Release Date1987-04-10
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Film in the third group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, which made a stir with the participation of numerous up-and-coming directors. Vibrator director Hiroki Ryuichi shoots on his home turf in Fukushima Prefecture, and portrays interwoven lives in a seaside town. Victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, volunteers helping out with reconstruction, reporters covering the damage, and a production crew shooting a porn movie. Unexpected encounters emerge in a seaside town in Fukushima Prefecture, still deeply marked by damage from the earthquake.
Release Date2013-03-13
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What is a boyfriend, what is marriage, and what is sex? A sensational sex story featuring three major directors and actresses. A serenade of women who search for the joy of being a woman while flickering among various men.
Release Date1988-08-15
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Hitomi's boyfriend Osamu comes to London. Questing her relationship, she turns to other men and women...
Release Date1987-08-27
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Hitomi left her boyfriend Osamu behind in Tokyo and came to London to study acting. She is working as a maid and staying with a host family. The spoiled son of the family, who she hangs out with every day, takes a liking to her and keeps making advances on her. Whenever Hitomi sees the piano given to her by Osamu, she masturbates, remembering the intense sex they had. Then one day, she is suddenly assaulted by the gardener. Hurt, she has comforting sex with the spoiled son.
Release Date1987-05-09
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Adult Video directed by Ryūichi Hiroki.
Release Date1987-01-01
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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.
Release Date2005-08-13
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Shino Umemiya readily dates guys interested in her, because she believes that's better than being alone. She breaks up with her violent boyfriend after he discovered that she cheated on him. She moves to a new area to get a fresh new start on her life. There, Shino Umemiya meets her neighbor Kyoshiro Sugahara. He is also her manager at her new job. Shino Umemiya becomes interested in him, but he lives with mysterious woman Akari.
Release Date2015-09-05
Vote Count14
A father gets angry at his daughter because, instead of going to school, she wants to become a stripper. He goes out and learns about the magic of striptease.
MARU runs around Tokyo.MARU hears from his fellow messenger HIDE that he might be leaving Tokyo.
Release Date2023-02-11
Vote Count2
