Kōichi Imaizumi

Berlin Drifters (2017)

Kôichi is a Japanese man living alone in Berlin. He has no job and hardly any friends. One night Kôichi meets Ryota at a bar which is also a sex club. Ryota came to Berlin to visit a German guy whom he had "met" on a dating app. His high hopes for romanc ...

Boys Hitting the Road (2017)

A bar in Shinjuku 2-chome. Toru is the manager of this bar, but one day, the owner, Ishii, suddenly passes away. The bar is to close, and Toru receives a list of regulars from Takano, the accountant, and decides to start a journey to collect retirement ben ...

The Secret to My Silky Skin (2014)

A boy who lives with his parents in Kyoto comes to Tokyo for a business trip and stays with his fuck buddy. They have no special plans for the five days together. They will go to work in the morning, come home, spend the evening together, and sleep. The fi ...

Hana-Dama (2014)

Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also bullied, becomes interested in Mizuki and longs for her. The two become close. ...

Where Love Blooms in the Sky (2011)

The man feels nostalgic when he sees the coastal townscape he hasn't seen in a long time, and when he heads to the beach, his ex is waiting for him. Although he is a model now, he was still in his infancy at the time, and it was thanks to his lover, a gove ...

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! ...

First Love (2007)

This is a story about coming of age, coming out and a gay marriage that is sprinkled with both love and comedy, at the centre of which is a teenager who doesn't yet know what he wants. ...

Naughty Boys (2002)

Gacchan is marking his birthday and his partner Takayuki is waiting for him at home so they can celebrate. However, not only does Gacchan forget about his partner but he is also flirting with others in the hood. Takayuki leaves their apartment and embarks ...

When an Angel Fell in Love (2002)

Gosuke was a school teacher, but in the past, he made a male student commit suicide after an illicit love affair. After changing jobs to work as a hotel escort for men, Gosuke felt a sense of emptiness as he was forced to have persistent sex every day. The ...

Naughty Boys (2001)

On Gacchan's birthday, a wild night in Shinjuku turns into a whirlwind for him and Takayuki, testing their love after a careless mistake and a heated confrontation. ...

Hard Duty (2001)

Natsuo, a rookie detective and closeted gay man, secretly admires his calm and stoic senior, Kirino. During a late-night pursuit of a convenience-store thief, the two are overpowered and assaulted, leaving Natsuo shattered and disillusioned. While he begin ...

Mofukuzuma: Shitchi no Kaori (2000)

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 ...

Shufu no Sei: Midara na Yagai Etchi (1999)

The Color of My Heart (1999)

High school student Tadashi harbors feelings for his best friend Kota, only to face ridicule from classmates—and growing distance from Kota himself. One day, he encounters Hiroki and Shinji, a same-sex couple on the train, and is drawn to their quiet con ...

Angel in the Toilet (1999)

The story of an angel who encounters a series of men in a public toilet. A fable about identity. ...

End of the Journey (1998)

Hiro travels around the country playing the ukulele on the streets. A road movie depicting his interactions with various gay people he meets on his travels. ...

The Fetist (1998)

In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse. ...

Juvenile Crime (1997)

In November of 1988 four young men abducted and held Junko Furuta for several weeks in the house of one of her captors. This is her story. ...

Gift (1997)

A man named Suneo appears in front of Yoshiro, claiming to expose the past of his lover Nishimura. Yoshiro is curious about Suneo, and approaches him... A drama with a touch of suspense, where friendship and love swirl around. ...

Night of Body's Model (1996)

Takahashi moves into a new apartment after a divorce and as she tries to settle in, finds that she is having strange and violent dreams and weird things keep happening in her apartment. Her neighbour likes to listen to her through the wall, and becomes inc ...

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 ...

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland (1996)

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the ...

Female Teacher in Black Lingerie (1996)

From the sensual novel series of "France Shoin Bunko", the same masterpiece based on Kaoru Kosuga is visualized. Mariko had a physical relationship with her student, Ikuo, who died in an accident and was wearing black lingerie in her mourning, but she met ...

Suddenly Arriving (1995)

The tale follows the intentional non-adventures of quiet Tachibana (Takeshi Ito), a Tokyo drifter who has worked in a suburban sausage shop for several years without forging any real friendships. ...

Reiko Married Woman (1995)

The first in the "Reiko Married Woman" series, which is a visualization of the sensual novel by Kaoru Kosuga, who was well received at "France Shoin". The daily life of Reiko, who lives in peace with her gentle husband, collapses with a single letter. Reik ...

Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration! (1995)

Shuji, an unemployed young man, has been living a haphazard and lethargic life, cheating on his wife with his girlfriends and constantly asking his best friend for loans. Then one day, Shuji takes a train and arrives at a country town. There, he meets Sach ...

Rafureshia (1995)

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 ...

Love − Zero = Infinity (1994)

Takeshi, an alienated young man spends his lonely days obsessively following total strangers. He is employed to observe the movements of a beautiful but disturbed doctor, whose behavior is causing concern. As Takeshi continues to track her, a bond begins t ...

Mad Affair: Promiscuous Wife (1994)

A harsh youth film reminiscent of "The Last Picture Show." The last scene is the best. masterpiece. ...

Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki (1994)

Cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's second comedy of the year, this silly softcore effort stars pretty Nao Kikuchi as a young married woman who takes a job at a call-girl agency with the mistaken belief that it is a maid service. After she is raped on her first ...

Chikan to nozoki: fujin-ka byôtô (1994)

A complete change of pace for cult pinku-eiga filmmaker Hisayasu Sato, this softcore farce set in a women's clinic looks more like one of Siggi Gotz's German romps than a film from the director of OL Renzoku Rape: Kyonyu Musaboru or Kamen No Yuwaku. The za ...

Hitozuma hentai biyoshitsu (1994)

This routine effort from cult pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato centers around a divorcée who opens a beauty parlor and begins selling sexual services to boost her business. ...

Chikan densha: Iyarashii kôi (1993)

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 lone ...

Angel in the Dark (1993)

Sato regular Koichi Imaizumi stars as a man obsessed with high school girls and their uniforms, viewing them as innocent and untainted. He begins an affair with one such girl (Yuri Ishihara), who is unmercifully bullied by her classmates and thus vulnerabl ...

Kaikan onanie: Niizuma-hen (1993)

Reiko is a newlywed who has been married for half a year through an arranged marriage. Married life should be fun, but for Reiko, it has been a series of empty days. She and her husband, Takahiro, are not in tune with each other. And it's not just their he ...

Don't let it bring you down (1993)

A member of the Air Self-Defense Force learns of a crucial national secret: that conscription will be introduced to Japan. Pursued by the state, the man and his wife attempt to flee to her parents' home, but along the way they meet a carefree young man who ...

Kyrie Eleison (1993)

A female detective tries to live a life of surveillance and of spying on couples having affairs while her husband is in a strange coma. ...

Negation (1993)

A mentally disturbed prostitute claims to have lost her baby in a heavy S&M session. As she begins a similar relationship with a man whose wife left him because of his kinky urges, their mutual mental deterioration leads them down a spiral toward a double ...

Dirty Blue (1992)

A standard pinku-eiga entry from prolific cult director Hisayasu Sato, this softcore melodrama centers on a successful female magazine editor with a handsome fiancé. The good-looking, successful couple seems to be the picture of happiness, until the young ...

Seifuku onanie: Shojo no shitagi (1992)

The plot deals with an alienated high-school girl who is rescued from a suicide attempt by a male student who can only achieve orgasm by pleasuring himself with women's underwear. Intrigued, the depressed young woman taunts him into raping her various fema ...

An Aria on Gazes (1992)

Housewife Kyoko begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito. The Bedroom isn't like any normal club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through ...

Hitozuma gômon: Sandan-zeme (1992)

Although its title indicates three personalities, the heroine of cult filmmaker Hisayasu Sato's downbeat multiple-personality tale actually exhibits four, going from loving wife to crazed slut to insane child to depressed adolescent. As usual, Sato fills t ...

Chikan onanie nozoki (1992)

The wife's older sister, a former high school teacher, moves in with a couple who are living an ordinary life. Eventually, the sister's lover, who was supposed to be dead, appears... Loosely based on "A Streetcar Named Desire. ...

Honban: Vibe sekkan (1992)

Kasumi Yuka heads the cast of this silly softcore film from Hisayasu Sato, the usually far more sober cult filmmaker known for grim depictions of alienation and sadism. Yuka plays a cranky harridan who uses her vibrator to administer questionably effective ...

Umagoya no reijô (1991)

Yuu is living with her horse Ryusei on the edge of the sea. One day a young researcher and three artists arrive and they disturb Yuu's quasi-telepathic relation with a horse. ...

Group Molesters: Peeping on the Housewife (1991)

In a gritty coastal town, scandal and perverse desire ignite a relentless spiral of illicit encounters. The tale centers on Tamayo Mochizuki, a married woman whose secret trysts with her lover Yoshiyuki unfold in a secluded, rocky cove—while a group of l ...

Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami (1991)

A deranged doctor lives in an abandoned hospital together with his wheelchair-bound daughter. Frustrated by normal women's perceived imperfections, the doctor kidnaps them and subjects them to sadistic tortures to turn them into subservient women for his c ...

Turtle Vision (1991)

A professional voyeuristic filmmaker is hired to acquire footage of prostitutes; during the process, his camera lands on a woman with a troubled past. ...

Look Into Me (1991)

A married couple enjoy engaging in S&M sexual behavior, and the wife, Yuri, asserts, "The ultimate SM play is death." After her husband dies, supposedly accidentally, Yuri is left alone, grieving and self-destructive. Her mental state deteriorates as she w ...

Just an Illusion (1991)

A high-school girl with paranormal abilities becomes the center of a bizarre cult which believes her to be a divine idol. In fact, she's a maniac, prowling the streets with a male slave to rape and murder innocent victims. ...

Silencer Made of Glass (1991)

An unstable lab technician develops a crush on her new assistant and uses an unscrupulous man with an unusual device to get closer to her. ...

Seifuku nusumi-dori-ma: Gekisha naburu (1990)

A high-school girl with a hobby of documenting stuff with her video camera films a woman getting raped in a dirty alley. She get in contact with the rapist and start blackmailing him to let her film when he assaults his victims, whom he chooses because the ...

Solid (2021)

Two guys are trying to have sex, but the earthquakes keep coming back, interfering with their intimate moment. Too scared to fall asleep, they stay up all night to share their earthquake memories. ...

Berlin Drifters (2017)

Kôichi is a Japanese man living alone in Berlin. He has no job and hardly any friends. One night Kôichi meets Ryota at a bar which is also a sex club. Ryota came to Berlin to visit a German guy whom he had "met" on a dating app. His high hopes for romanc ...

The Secret to My Silky Skin (2014)

A boy who lives with his parents in Kyoto comes to Tokyo for a business trip and stays with his fuck buddy. They have no special plans for the five days together. They will go to work in the morning, come home, spend the evening together, and sleep. The fi ...

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! ...

First Love (2007)

This is a story about coming of age, coming out and a gay marriage that is sprinkled with both love and comedy, at the centre of which is a teenager who doesn't yet know what he wants. ...

Queer Boys and Girls on the Bullet Train (2004)

Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen brings together ten filmmakers and artists who consistently affirm what it means to be gay or lesbian in their work. Habakari chose ten filmmakers to make a five-minute work each, developed around a gay or lesbian the ...

Naughty Boys (2002)

Gacchan is marking his birthday and his partner Takayuki is waiting for him at home so they can celebrate. However, not only does Gacchan forget about his partner but he is also flirting with others in the hood. Takayuki leaves their apartment and embarks ...

Naughty Boys (2001)

On Gacchan's birthday, a wild night in Shinjuku turns into a whirlwind for him and Takayuki, testing their love after a careless mistake and a heated confrontation. ...

The Color of My Heart (1999)

High school student Tadashi harbors feelings for his best friend Kota, only to face ridicule from classmates—and growing distance from Kota himself. One day, he encounters Hiroki and Shinji, a same-sex couple on the train, and is drawn to their quiet con ...

Angel in the Toilet (1999)

The story of an angel who encounters a series of men in a public toilet. A fable about identity. ...

The Real Faces of Young Men (1998)

Hiroki and Shinji have been living together for three months. When it comes to light that Shinji met with his ex-boyfriend Takayuki, the three of them have their first fight. Misunderstanding the situation, Hiroki accuses, "You're still seeing your ex!" an ...

Adultery, Mother & Daughter (1993)

A mother, daughter, and their fiancé are enjoying a vacation at a villa near the ocean when suddenly a trio of people - a middle-aged man, a woman, and a young man - break in. Three outsiders and three ordinary people feel what it means to "live" through ...