Hiroyuki Oki

Toshi Shi (2020)

This work by Hiroyuki Oki was originally conceived as an installation with four beamers projecting different video fragments in a particular order. Here, rhythmical multiscreen editing and poetic voiceover create a multidimensional elegiac space riddled wi ...

Creation of a Single Powder Painting (2013)

8mm short shot in Kochi Prefecture by Hiroyuki Oki. ...

Fujica Single Green (2013)

A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews. ...

Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change (2012)

Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as "Seeing" in 2009, six co-writers participated to directing the omnibus film, "Seeing". Initially, there were no plans to expand it into trilogy, and Matsumoto was also l ...

Angel's Body Temperature (2001)

Aketo is 20 year old college student living in Tokyo. He has an older lover named Hiroshi who lives in Kyoto. One day, Aketo meets a young woman Harumi who is wandering around in Tokyo. Harumi rolls into Akato's house. ...

Looking for an Angel (1999)

Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's town, Kochi, which Takachi himself ...

Inside the Mind (1999)

Oki fuses documentary elements with narrative filmmaking to such a point that it's difficult to distinguish one from the other. The film is both the story of two men falling in love with each other on a beach, and a faithful document to the filmmaking proc ...

Yusho-Renaissance (1999)

The work of Japanese experimental filmmaker Hiroyuki Oki as been described as "queer ambient film," and this work brings his fascination with dream-like images and manipulation of time through editing to a new level. Yusho-Renaissance follows an artist and ...

3+1 (1997)

Tama asobi (1996)

A man named Shiki has been sent to a company in Matsuyama. Since Shiki was famous as a baseball club member at a previous company, there is a story about baseball clubs in the company. Ken, who was a player in high school, participated without being reluct ...

Heaven-6-Box (1996)

Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan's foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute chapters (or 'boxes') which, says Oki, a ...

I Like You, I Like You Very Much (1994)

A tense love triangle unfolds as You struggles with his affair, questioning his identity and desires while caught between two men who change his life forever. ...

Tarch Trip (1994)

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like 'urban view from the artist's studio'. The film is largely set in the film-maker's home and the street in the provincial town of Aichi where he lives. Minor everyday incidents ...

Melody for Buddy Matsumae (1993)

Chronicles ten days spent at a seaside town; five of them with a visiting boyfriend, and five more after the boyfriend's departure. ...

Color Eyes (1992)

This film consists of several portraits of boys, sometimes alone - in an interior, in front of a window, other times in a group, three dancers on a roof - or even as a couple, kissing, hugging. These scenes are intertwined with each other, supporting a wak ...

Landscape Catching (1992)

Hiroyuki Oki continues to develop his technical sophistication and his openness to new forms and themes, culminating in a sensuality that is apparent in this, one of his latest two films. ...

Shujinkou (1991)

Short film by Hiroyuki Oki. ...

Swimming Prohibited (1989)

The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary job and continues in the outer suburbs of Osaka. A short silent film that Oki made in 1988 is included as a ...

A Film of Buddy Matsumae (1989)

The establishment of Hiroyuki Ohki's Matsumae-Kun's film is an inversion of the relationship between reality and image, as opposed to a documentary, in which something is happening in reality and the filmmaker goes there to make images of it, or story film ...

The Traveling Schoolroom (1986)

Oki Hiroyuki's First Film shot at a mountain lodge. "The film was simply a series of landscape shots, without a story." (Oki Hiroyuki). ...

The Family Complete (2010)

A highly contagious incest virus induces several generations of a Japanese family to have sex in all possible constellations and across gender boundaries – and with that man in a bear costume who suddenly appears? Only in Japan! ...

The Whispered City (2000)

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses. ...

Looking for an Angel (1999)

Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's town, Kochi, which Takachi himself ...

Nonke (1997)

The main character is a business man who is about to turn 30, is in the public eye, and is thinking of marrying a woman as an option. A straight art student appears in front of him, and he falls in love with him even though he knows it will end badly... ...

I Like You, I Like You Very Much (1994)

A tense love triangle unfolds as You struggles with his affair, questioning his identity and desires while caught between two men who change his life forever. ...

Tarch Trip (1994)

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like 'urban view from the artist's studio'. The film is largely set in the film-maker's home and the street in the provincial town of Aichi where he lives. Minor everyday incidents ...

The Letter (1991)

"I sobbed today..." This bizarre monologue is followed by a dialogue with a unique tempo. Then, fragments of daily life are written on the screen in an unhurried manner. When the dialogue and the screen are fused together, there is an exquisite sense of mi ...

Swimming Prohibited (1989)

The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary job and continues in the outer suburbs of Osaka. A short silent film that Oki made in 1988 is included as a ...