Takahisa Zeze

The Boy and the Dog (2025)

6 months after the earthquake disaster in Sendai City, Nakagaki Kazumasa is a young man who has lost his job. He encounters a dog named Tamon on its dog tag, who lost its owner in the earthquake disaster. Kazumasa decides to take Tamon in, and the dog beco ...

One Last Bloom (2023)

Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin's help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the ...

Fragments of the Last Will (2022)

Based on a true story - a true love story of a man and his wife who are at the mercy of fate, but wish to be reunited for 11 years. With thoughts of his wife and his fellows, Yamamoto Hatao never gave up hoping that he'd return home despite hopeless circum ...

Tonbi (2022)

Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (later played by Takumi Kitamura). Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in accident. Since that time, Yasuo, w ...

In the Wake (2021)

Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down conclusive proof. ...

Tomorrow's Dining Table (2021)

3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head towards their sons Yu. ...

Threads - Our Tapestry of Love (2020)

Ren Takahashi and Aoi Sonoda were both born in 1989. They met for the first time at the age of 13 and became each other's first love, but they separated. At the age of 21, they met again. They were unable to undo their past. Now, they are 31 years old. ...

The Promised Land (2019)

A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding. ...

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection. ...

My Friend "A" (2018)

Masuda, an aspiring journalist, plans to write an article in order to expose his co-worker Suzuki, who is a psychopathic murderer according to Masuda. ...

The 8-Year Engagement (2017)

Hisashi and Mai are a happy couple in their 20s who are engaged to be married. But three months before their wedding, Mai becomes seriously ill. Her heart stops momentarily, and she falls into a deep coma. Hisashi visits Mai at the hospital every day befor ...

The Lowlife (2017)

Based on a 2016 novel by Mana Sakura, "The Lowlife" shows the stories of three women who work in Japan's adult video industry. ...

Random Lives (2017)

Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bus incident which affects those who survive it, fishing, cherry-blossom viewing and more ...

64: Part 2 (2016)

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs D ...

64: Part 1 (2016)

1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs D ...

3 Beautiful Lies (2016)

Strayer's Chronicle (2015)

In the early 1990s, experiments were carried out secretly in Japan. Two different methods were used in the experiments. One method involved forcing stress upon expecting parents and when the baby was born, provoke the baby into mutations and develop their ...

Maria's Breast (2014)

Mao, who can tell when someone will die when she touches them, offers her own body to dying men. One day, Tachibana, whose wife committed suicide after Mao said she would die, draws close to her. ...

Life Back Then (2011)

Kyohei Nagashima (Masaki Okada) has shut away the world. During his high school days he was the target of bullying and experienced horrifying moments. Now as a young adult Kyohei takes a new job. He works for a company that specializes in cleaning out the ...

When You Love And When You Are Loved (2010)

An entry in a series focused on "love" and "erotica," in which six creators from multiple fields -- from film and TV to direct-to-video and manga -- compete. Director Zeze Takahisa, known for his bold undertakings, including Heaven's Story, presents an una ...

Heaven's Story (2010)

A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands. ...

Documentary Zuno Keisatsu (2009)

In December 1969, the band Zuno Keisatsu (The Brain Police) was formed, with Panta and Toshi as its core members. The camera follows them for three years leading up to the band's reunion in 2008. ...

Flying Rabbits (2008)

Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced ...

Tear Jar (2008)

A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt. ...

Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider- (2007)

A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife the name is Ninomiya, a man who leaves the house apart from his wife and is inviting a self-development seminar to ...

Sanctuary (2006)

A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues. ...

A Gap in the Skin (2005)

A young couple go on the run after the murder of his mother. ...

Secret Journey (2004)

I (Ken MItsuishi), documentary video maker, saw a guy named YUDA (Kazuma Honda) in middle of Tokyo. I was curious about Yuda and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple months later, a lady name Michi Nakamura ...

Moon Child (2003)

Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight ...

Kaettekita! Deka Matsuri (2003)

Second installment of omnibus series Deka Matsuri. ...

SF Whipped Cream (2002)

In the year 2060, KEN, a 25-year-old young man raised by aliens living illegally on Earth, makes a living by selling dubious drugs, idolizing Carl Gotch as a god. One day, he is caught cheating on his drug sales and becomes the target of a gang. However, i ...

Dog Star (2002)

A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a short time so he can find the girl who trained him as a puppy. While attempting to get to know her (as he runs along behind her and sniffs for her around t ...

Rush! (2001)

A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenaline-pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time. ...

Tokyo X Erotica (2001)

What lasts longer, the time before birth or the time after death? In the 1990's, Kenjo dies in a terrorist gas attack. His girlfriend Haruka is killed by a man she meets as a street prostitute. In 2002, Kenji and Haruka who should already be dead, meet aga ...

Chogokudo (2001)

Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of ...

The Breed (2000)

Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...! ...

Thug Business Worker Sabu (2000)

The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld. ...

Hysteric (2000)

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living t ...

Forbidden Door: Sexual Urge in the Skirt (1999)

A message dial that exposes everything to a complete stranger. Not only the body, but also the mind... A melancholy and sensual erotic film by Takahisa Zeze, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Pink Films. ...

Sex Friend Nurezakari (1999)

Sex Friend Nurezakari is the story of an old friend, Tsutomu, who pays a visit to a couple then disappears after one night. He leaves behind a mobile phone, and the couple set out to find him and return it. Along the way they meet up with another couple ...

Anarchy in Japansuke (1999)

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift fro ...

No Man, No Cry (1998)

A sensual drama that depicts the fates of a man and a woman who are entangled in a negative chain of events that begins with a certain incident. This is an absurdist drama written by Takahisa Zeze, a leading director in the film industry, and shows the fat ...

The Cold-Blooded Trap (1998)

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya. ...

Dirty Maria (1998)

Murakami's partner Mayumi has gone missing. He fears that she could have run off with another guy or gotten into difficulty by involving by herself with a 'telephone relationship club', a solution which hooks up strangers trying to find easy, anonymous sex ...

Kokkuri (1997)

Schoolgirls on the verge of adulthood know that boys can be feckless and girls treacherous. Three friends gather around a Ouija board to call forth the spirit of Kokkuri. Masami has a boyfriend, Akira; Hiroko, who is nervous about the séance, wonders if s ...

Raigyo (1997)

A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club. ...

Umarekawaru to shitara (1996)

A mysterious world of images of an old, almost forgotten barbershop in the middle of the city, with its owner who is just "waiting" for something, and the people who visit him. A barbershop is a place where people want change. A place to find a new self. T ...

Meshû: Torokeru Kashin (1996)

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 subcente ...

Indecent Peeping: A Woman Who Wants to Be Seen (1996)

Nakamoto, who works at a real estate agency, enters a vacant apartment without permission and begins to peep into it. By chance, he finds an apartment building where a TV reporter lives, and eventually starts playing pranks on the phone. One day, the woman ...

Upcoming Scenery (1996)

Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a peep-shop, reunites with Kazuki and rekindles their love, but tragedy soon ensues. Hotaru Hatsuki, one of the most po ...

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. ...

No Good Men (1995)

No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress. ...

End of the World (1995)

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 b ...

Angel in September (1994)

One day, Hitomi observes her classmate Eriko stealing lipstick in a drugstore and follows her home. The two young women get to know and love each other. While the withdrawn Hitomi believes herself and Eriko to be reincarnations of angel warriors who once f ...

Lots of Peeping: Hot Underpanties of a Lover (1994)

There was a man, a novelist, who had unavoidably turned his hand to sensual novels for a living, but now made a living out of it. One morning while jogging, he picks up a lighter and cigarettes dropped by a bookstore owner, and decides to deliver them to t ...

The Dream of Garuda (1994)

A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets. After carrying out vicious attacks on a prostitute and a young girl he finally comes face ...

Keep on Masturbating: Non-Stop Pleasure (1994)

A man with a troubled past including incest with a younger sister and the murder of a woman travels to an isolated countryside town in Nagano. There a local who mistakes him for a famous television actor shows him the town's sites, including a strip bar in ...

Yumika Hayashi: Kabukicho Image Club Story (1994)

In this ambitious work, popular actress Hayashi Yumika plays a fictional version of herself, transformed into the queen of an image club. Under the direction of Fukamachi Akira, who knows the pink film world inside and out, Sese Takahisa has written an ela ...

Groper Train: Naughty Lower Body (1993)

Marumi Sakurada is a second year high school student. Marumi, who lost her virginity early on, indulges in lesbian play with her best friend Tama-chan. Still, Marumi is far from the love she longs for, and Marumi coldly hits her classmate Marugame, who has ...

Widow: Bliss in a Mourning Dress (1993)

The film depicts Nagatoshi, a monk, who is mistaken for the reincarnation of a hero in a small mountain village who looks exactly like him, and who rebels against the government together with the farmers. Unlike its predecessor, which was a period drama in ...

The Japanese Obscenity (1993)

The sexual experiences of self-proclaimed sexualist Tetsu Hashimoto (Shinji Kubo) from 6 years old to 87 years old. ...

Fūfu kōkan: Chōkairaku (1993)

The Monk Farted (1993)

The story is about Nagatoshi, a handsome and sexy monk played by Kazuhiro Sano, who is struggling for the widow he loves. Foreshadowing the prophecy of the Great Kanto Earthquake, the film is a highly entertaining theatrical spectacle that depicts the huma ...

Nure-nure: Sandan Zeme (1993)

Popular AV actress Yuri is so busy that she doesn't have time to find a boyfriend, so she masturbates to relieve her throbbing. Not satisfied with just her fingers, Yuri starts using props, and eventually has a serial in a sports newspaper called "Sex with ...

Molester Train: Mischievous Wives (1992)

A former Self-Defense Force officer who returns to his hometown with his comrades to fight for his life. A woman who comes to trace the trail of her husband, who has been missing for seven years. A woman who wants something stimulating in her boring villag ...

Amazon Garden: Uniform Lesbians (1992)

A lesbian teacher (Kanako Kishi) comes to Tokyo in search of her student (Ichiko Kamata), who has dropped out of high school and started living with a bomb-making terrorist (Takeshi Ito). ...

Saishin Pinsaro Jôhô: Gekisha!! Nama Honban (1992)

No Man's Land (1991)

Parisian Rita Kato follows a letter from her friend Masao Sato to Tokyo, but discovers that a new tenant is already living at the sender's address, the slacker Takeshi, called Golgo after the contract killer protagonist from Takao Saitō's long-lived manga ...

High Heels Gang (1991)

The son of a gang leader boss is kidnapped by someone and demands the disbandment of the gang. ...

Codename 348 Female Detective Sashiba (1990)

Special female detective Hanyu Asuka, codenamed 348 (Sashiba), receives a secret mission from the police commissioner to solve the blackmail case involving a genius Famicom designer. As Asuka continues her investigation, she discovers that Hayami, a gangst ...

Supesharu ressun: Hentai sei-kyôiku (1990)

Lesbian-themed tale of a schoolgirl who entices her gullible (not to mention slightly warped) female teacher by positing that they are predestined to dance together on the day the world ends. ...

Coconut Clash (1990)

Rie, who moved to Tokyo from a rural mining town and is penniless after being cheated by her boyfriend, enters the world of underground wrestling by chance. This is a ridiculous ensemble drama inspired by Shinji Somai's "Luminous Woman" and incorporating t ...

Indecent Tongue Technique (1990)

Tsuda, a former Self Defense Force officer who now works as an entertainment agency, is asked by his former boss to investigate a man named Hiraoka. Hiraoka is connected to a case in which a former worker at a nuclear power plant was found drowned. Behind ...

Interlocking Locks (1990)

A detective is hired to locate a model's rapist. ...

Ki*Ra*Ra (1990)

Tired of the belligerence and bad manners of a female customer, two shop owners kidnap her and subject her to a series of sexual assaults and tortures with utensils from the shop. ...

Hanra honban: Joshidaisei bôkô-hen (1990)

The tale of an alienated young guy eager to discover a way to spend his bills. Financial relief shows up in the form of unknown e-mails directing him to rape women for money, capturing the crimes as evidence of his work. Sordid as his brand new job may be, ...

The Woman from Hong Kong - Too Amazing Pleasure (1989)

A female Hong Kong police detective comes to Japan in pursuit of the criminal who drove her lover to death, and a beautiful Japanese policewoman cooperates with her. They corner the criminal, but they fall into the criminal's trap and are raped... ...

Blue Sky (1989)

A road movie about three persons traveling in a campervan on their way to Tokyo, Hamamatsu, and Kyoto. The film is based on the story of the heroine, a young girl named Momo, who was a member of the "21 Faces of Kaijin" gang involved in the Glico Morinaga ...

Pervert Ward: S&M Clinic (1989)

An abusive psychologist enjoys torturing and abusing his wife. After rough sexual session of pain and dominance she decides to leave her husband. Then her masochistic twin sister arrives and of course plenty of kinky sexual torture and bondage happens next ...

Extracurricular Activity: Rape! (1989)

Three bad high school students who are preparing for the graduation ceremony are caught up in a battle with Yakuza after encountering a Korean in Japan and Yuki Yappa who has been married to him. A youth adventure drama with a powerful depiction of "Japan" ...

Bondage Ecstasy (1989)

A young office worker turns into an insect. As an insect, he enters the orifices of his enemies and possesses them, allowing him to enact his revenge fantasies. ...

Wakazuma Fuhô Kankin (1989)

Muscle (1989)

Ryuzaki, an editor of Muscle Magazine, which features photographs of men with sculpted bodies, becomes involved with a man named Kitami; their affair soon becomes dominated by sadomasochistic games, with a horrid result. Jump ahead one year, Ryuzaki is rel ...

Hitozuma Waisetsu Bôkô (1988)

Rope and Boys 2: Boy Hell's Messenger (1988)

A magazine reporter is told to investigate the murder of a young man with ties to the gay S&M scene. ...

Love Letter in the Sand (1988)

During a month of unusually heavy rain in Tokyo, a mystery assailant has been brutally assaulting and killing people with a metal bat. When a handsome young man with amnesia is found outside an area hospital, the nurse who discovered him begins to suspect ...

Re-Wind (1988)

An investigation into a videotape that shows the results of a brutal murder committed using a knife-equipped camera. ...

Chikan Densha: Abunai Futomomo (1988)

A girl who dreams of herself being molested realizes the intense desire that lies dormant in her through hypnotherapy... The desire that has been awakened is unstoppable. ...

Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting (1988)

A woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings. Even the reporter sent to interview the gang members who committed the crime is victimized. ...

Niizuma Hard Onanii (1988)

Welcome to the Ogenki Clinic: Feel Good All Over Again (1988)

A quirky doctor and his frisky nurse operate the Ogenki clinic, helping patients solve their peculiar sexual problems. Their methods may be unconventional but the special techniques they use will have patients feeling good in no time. ...

Chikan densha: Gusshori nurashite (1988)

In a crowded train, men and women are all over the place. In an era when there were no women-only cars, the men reach for the women's asses! ...

Temptation of the Mask (1987)

An orphaned arsonist is interrogated by a detective, revealing his story of sexual abuse and trauma. ...

Lustmord (1987)

Eiji, a teenager eager to follow in his late father's scientific footsteps perfects one of his old experiments to diminish the barrier between pain and pleasure. ...

Boko climax! (1987)

Director Hisayasu Sato helmed this peculiar tale about a woman known as Locker Baby because she was left in a bus station locker as an infant. Locker Baby is raped by a man clad in black leather, traumatizing her still further, and driving her to sensory-d ...

Shin mibôjin geshuku: Yoru no tehodoki (1987)

Pink film from 1987 ...

Gimme Shelter (1986)

The mother does half-nude aerobics until her son rapes her, and the daughter falls into bed with a female teacher. Despite the shocking goings-on, the film is much more in keeping with Sato's usual themes of alienation and corrupted innocence than its brut ...

Uniform Virgin: The Prey (1986)

A sullen horny student stalks female students in the endless hallways of a desolate high school with a video camera. But are his violent and abusive recordings fantasies or reality? ...

Exposed School Swimsuits (1986)

A high school girl has a dream of entering a water ballet competition and having a hot romance. Both get her wet. Set in the synchronized swimming club, this sporty comedy pornography film comically depicts the struggles and sex situation of the students! ...

Save the Last Dance for Me (1986)

The true story of a pair of college students who attempted a double suicide to end their doomed romance becomes fare for legendary pinku-eiga director Hisayasu Sato in this feature. ...

Molester's Delivery Service (1986)

A woman gets a Buddhist statue from her dying grandfather. She doesn't know it but it is one of three stolen statutes from India that contain a secret. When a crooked Chinese art dealer and an Indian prince find out she has it they attempt to get it for th ...

Hey gangs, is it sunny over there? (1985)

A middle-aged yakuza escapes from Tokyo after commiting a crime. He meeets a young right-wing extremist. Together they help a girl who's looking for a river bank full of canola flowers that her mother had a strong memory of. The story is about how they fin ...

Breakfast of the Movie (2023)

Documentary on the legendary bento shop "Popeye," known to everyone in the film industry. ...

Autumn (2016)

Mamoru Miyamoto is a book editor and his friend Masao Muraoka is a writer. Muraoka hasn't released a novel since "Aki no Riyuu." Masao has suffered from mental health issues and, because of this, his voice fails. The two men talk through written notes. It ...

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)

A "Cinéma, de notre temps" series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015. ...

Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema (2011)

Documentary on one of the most famous branches of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink film genre, known as Pinku Eiga, and the closely related Roman Porno cult films series produced by notorious Nikkatsu studios from 1971 to 1988. ...

I’m a Cat Stalker (2009)

Haru works at a part-time job for a bookstore. Her dream is to become an illustrator and she also loves cats. One day, after a cat named Chibutomu disappears from the bookstore Haru canvasses the neighbourhood in search of Chibutomu. ...

Sixteen (2007)

A story of a 16-year old girl who comes to Tokyo aspiring to be an actress. ...

Prisoner/Terrorist (2007)

During a militant attack on an airport, the hand grenade of 'M', one of three terrorists, malfunctions, leading to him being captured and held indefinitely in prison. Exposed to mistreatment behind bars, he slowly loses his grip on reality as he is forced ...

Look of Love (2005)

A young man is unable to have relations with the girls he likes. A pimp meets him after having a strange experience and they are althogether on a bizarre ride through a gloomy and disconnected Tokyo. ...

Anarchy in Japansuke (1999)

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shoplift fro ...

I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE (1996)

Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction. ...

Saishin Pinsaro Jôhô: Gekisha!! Nama Honban (1992)

Cruising Love Story (1991)

A junior high school teacher who happens to be a homosexual and falls in love with an extremely handsome young man he meets by chance in Hatten Park. The directorial debut of Ryuji Yamamoto. ...

Wife's Masturbation: Sweet Tingle (1990)

The story centers on a gangster living in the city and the woman who lives with him, the people they meet, and the incidents they become involved in. The entire film has a whiff of American New Cinema, while the outlaw-like protagonist played by Kazuhiro S ...