
Acting
Shirō Shimomoto
Born
1948-08-14 (78)
Place of birth
Osaka, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
63 titles
Shirō Shimomoto is a Japanese pink film actor and director from Osaka, Japan. He has been called "one of the most individual actors" in the world of pink film.
Known for
7.6In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Oomura already is at the scene of the crime.
Hitori Shizuka
2012
6.1Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
Door
1988
5.3A woman was raped in her school years and broke up with her lover because of it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she had forbidden liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment. However, the hollow in her heart cannot be filled with just carnal desire. A turning point comes when one day she encounters her old lover by chance.
Attacked Female Teacher
1983
6.2Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.
Door II: Tokyo Diary
1991
5.4After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep and gets carried away into a new, violent world of ideas.
A Pool Without Water
1982
6.0In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1991
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
NRDuring the funeral of Senior Advisor Yudai Kanou (Yudai Ishiyama), the Souryukai executives prepare for battle against the Fourth-Generation Sakata family, who were behind Kanou's murder. However, Chairman Yukihiro Kawaji (Hitoshi Ozawa), wary of the Anti-Boryokudan Law, hesitates to make the first move. Thus, instead of starting a full-scale gang war, he entrusts Takeshi Kanzaki (Hitomi Matsuda) with carrying out revenge on the direct perpetrators and mastermind. Where had Kanou's plans leaked from? Vice Chairman Shinji Wakamiya (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) discovers that the day before Kanou was killed, Daisuke Sakai (Daisuke Nagakura), Chief of the Fourth-Generation Sakata family, met with Eiichi Konkai (Eiichi Furui) of the Sakuraba clan. After extracting the truth from Konkai, Kanzaki goes after Sakai—but Sakai and his men are headed for Kanou's gravestone...
GOKU-OH 6
2020
NRChairman of the Souryukai, Yukihiro Kawaji (Hitoshi Ozawa), is shielded by Executive Director Takeshi Kanzaki (Hitomi Matsuda) who takes a bullet and is severely injured. The Sakata family holds an emergency executive meeting, attended by Detective Umezawa (Hoka Kinoshita) from the Fourth Investigative Division, to deny any involvement. Meanwhile, at the Souryukai, Vice Chairman Shinji Wakamiya (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) and the others begin to prepare for retaliation against the Sakata family. The tension between both sides rapidly escalates — following emergency surgery, Kanzaki narrowly escapes death. Then, at Kawaji's command, the battle finally ignites!!
GOKU-OH 4
2020
NRDespite the peace efforts of Souryukai's Senior Advisor Yudai Kanou (Yudai Ishiyama), the conflict between the Souryukai and Sakata family only intensifies. Led by Executive Director Takeshi Kanzaki (Hitomi Matsuda), the Souryukai is designated under the Anti-Boryokudan Law, prompting Umezawa (Hoka Kinoshita) from the Osaka Prefectural Police to conduct a raid. Upon receiving the news, the Daitoua Union demands a response from the Fourth-Generation Sakata family. In the midst of this, the retired Third Generation head Tatsuichi Kuroki (Jiro Dan) suddenly collapses and falls into a coma. His biological son, Kanzaki, goes to see him...
GOKU-OH 5
2020
2010s · 4 titles
7.1The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on the four girls when they claim not to remember the killer's face. Each of the girls, in their own way, will do penance for their silence.
Penance
2013
NRThe third-generation head of the Sakata family, Tatsuichi Kuroki (Jiro Dan), has retired. The successor to his position, however, is none other than Hiroshi Niwa (Shiro Shimomoto), who stands opposed to Wakagashira Yukihiro Kawaji (Hitoshi Ozawa)! Takeshi Kanzaki (Hitomi Matsuda), dissatisfied with Kuroki’s decision, decides to leave the judgment to his superior, Shinji Wakamiya (Kazuyoshi Ozawa). Meanwhile, Niwa devises a scheme to corner and crush Kawaji’s side, including Wakamiya and Kanzaki. Kawaji and his men hold an emergency executives’ meeting… What will Kawaji, Wakamiya, and Kanzaki decide!? And what shocking fate awaits them beyond that!?
GOKU-OH 3
2019
6.7A young woman named Izumi suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi, who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death causes Izumi to lose her memory from the time of the accident. A lawyer named Makiko then helps Izumi to remember the final moments of her boyfriend's life.
Piecing Me Back Together
2010
NRHimuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), wakagashira assistant of Kyowakai, and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) eliminate Fukumoto, chairman of the West Japan Mutsumikai, in a chaotic firefight. Himuro’s nephew Sugaya is killed protecting him, leaving Himuro devastated. Taking responsibility for Zaizen’s assassination plot, Kudo retires. After absorbing the West Japan Mutsumikai, Kyowakai enters a new era under third chairman Kawatani (Hitoshi Ozawa). In the east, Takishima retires as Marugami-kai chairman and Mita becomes second chairman, leaving Kyowakai and Marugami-kai as the two dominant forces. Munakata (Takanori Kikuchi), assistant to the Marugami-kai chairman, is released from prison and reunited with Kawatani and Himuro, recalling their shared past. As Kyowakai restructures, Kawatani delivers a shocking message to Himuro.
Unification Of Japan 21
2017
2000s · 14 titles
5.1When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
2000
6.3Young lovers Mari and Atsushi elope to the Big City that is Tokyo, unfortunately when they run out of money, both need to make some harsh choices. Mari stumbles upon selling ‘Party Tickets’ (for Swingers parties to be exact…), before being drawn into the sex industry to make ends meet. Meanwhile, Atsushi becomes a ‘Scout Man’ – effectively a recruitment agent for the sex industry (i.e. procuring young women for nude modelling, porn movies etc.). The consequences of their respective decisions will ultimately take it’s toll on their young lives.
Scoutman
2001
NRThe candid sexual experiences of three close friends working as nurses, unfolding night after night!
Midnight Examination Room 1: The Seductive Nurse Call
2003
4.9On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's younger sister is lost, and the only possibility seems to be that she had been taken by these spirits. The missing tracks. The predictions that a mysterious woman makes.
Ghost Train
2006
6.4ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variety of virus? As the situation worsens and more cases begin arriving, a medical officer from the World Health Organization named Eiko Kobayashi is dispatched to the area. At the rate the virus is spreading, the entire city’s transportation system and infrastructure would be brought to a halt within 3 months. Within 6 months it could spread to tens of millions of people--reaching a death toll far worse than any war.
Pandemic
2009
6.3Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
Flavor of Happiness
2008
NRMahjong drama by Shuji Kataoka.
Female Mahjong Player: Revenge of the Mahjong Battle
2000
NRRinko, a flight attendant on the fast track to success, was worried about her friend Kiyomi's strange behavior. In fact, Kiyomi had been blackmailed by a drug courier and forced to be both his courier and mistress. However, when Kiyomi realized Rinko was being targeted by the courier, she turned herself in to the police. The police rushed to Rinko's house, but she had already been kidnapped… The thick, supple ropes of a stewardess were closing in on the flight attendant!
Stewardess Sanctuary: Ecstasy Day and Night
2000
6.0After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
Crazy Lips
2000
5.9The movie revolves around Mitsuba, who studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though Mitsuba is mediocre at best, he ends up teaching three students.
Talk, Talk, Talk
2007
4.7This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa, a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a legendary giant squid rumored to live in Tokyo Bay. Haruo's uncle Takashi, fallen on hard times, comes to stay with his nephew until he can get back on his feet. Uncle Takashi is addicted to energy drinks, and seduces any woman in sight, including Haruo's girlfriend Rika. While praying at a Shintō shrine, Uncle Takashi is bitten in the scrotum by a poisonous snake and dies. The uncle is destined to spend the afterlife in Hell unless his nephew and girlfriend can rescue him from the King of Hell.
Uncle's Paradise
2006
NRRinko and her friends go to a group date at Kei's invitation, but are disappointed to find themselves surrounded by a group of unattractive men who don't seem likely to be popular with women. However, Michiyo is attracted to Iwabuchi, one of the men, and ends up going to a hotel with him. Afterwards, Rinko and her friends receive an invitation to another group date, this time to a cosplay one.
Midnight Examination Room 3: The Fetishism of Temptation
2003
5.0After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a rustic primary school. He struggles to get through to his students, until he creates a class project to raise fireflies to fly over it once again. All students, even the reserved girl Hikari (Risako Sugaya), become passionately involved in the project. However, it brings them into conflict with parents and the school, one problem after another stands in his way.
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
NRA yakuza boss is brought into the hospital where Rinko and the others work. Rinko and her friends are surrounded by the gang's henchmen and subjected to all sorts of commotion, including having their bottoms touched. One day, as her colleague Michiyo is leaving work, she spots a suspicious man. The man introduces himself as photographer Kitajima and asks Michiyo to let him secretly photograph the boss. To achieve his goal, he gently embraces Michiyo, but...
Midnight Examination Room 5: Target the Nurse!
2004
1990s · 14 titles
6.2Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.
Door II: Tokyo Diary
1991
6.0In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).
Neo Chinpira 2: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1991
6.5Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member. If he turns the task down, he will face the consequences for betrayal.
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1990
5.7A look at the lives of two prostitutes in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
A New Love in Tokyo
1994
6.0An ex sumo wrestler turned corporate security guard goes on a murderous rampage at his place of employment.
The Guard from Underground
1992
7.0The story follows Muhan, the female assassin introduced in 1985's Dream Crimes, who was originally based on Takashi Ishii's manga character (unlike in the movies, she's primarily a mahjong expert in the manga). After Muhan fails to kill a young girl during a hitjob, she begins to question her existence.
Killing Angel Muhan
1995
6.9With the help of a mysterious acquaintance, a former low-level yakuza tracks down and kidnaps the man he believes kidnapped and murdered his daughter, but others are soon implicated in the death.
Serpent's Path
1998
Office worker Hiroko plans to murder a former classmate who is blackmailing her using her past. She plans and puts her perfect crime into action, but is struck by an unexpected turn of events. Hiroko, who works at a credit union, has a past in which she embezzled 10 million yen from the company to give to a man. She has been secretly paying it back and is finally just six months away from paying it all back. Just when she is happy to be proposed to by pharmacy owner Nozawa, her high school friend Kyoko blackmails her for 10 million yen. In fact, Kyoko is the mastermind behind the man who extorted money from Hiroko. She has gone from being an actress to a club madam and is in trouble with the debts of her club. Hiroko decides to kill Kyoko, who will stop at nothing to kill her...
The Woman Who Kept Hiding
1995
NRA strange job offer falls into the lap of scoop photographer Kumpei Takimura, and that becomes the source of all the trouble. A drinking man with a beautiful and mysterious charm. A disheartened actor aims for a comeback on the big stage, while a female producer with unstoppable momentum accompanies him. A mysterious man searching for his runaway daughter; complicated human relationships. For the sake of haphazardly intertwined colors and a small bit of pride, for the sake of a glimmer of justice. And so begins Takimura Kumpei's battle to protect those he loves, a battle in which he risks his manhood and his very life.
Hyena's Night
1997
7.2Etsuko – a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life. That's until one day, the view of a boat gliding gracefully in the sea inspires her to take up the oar. Since she's rejected by her school's all-male rowing team, she decides to form her own all-women team. Nothing will ever be the same again.
Give It All
1998
Pink film by Shuji Kataoka.
Love Hotel Report: The Honey Room
1992
NRYukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.
Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love
1991
NRShinjuku's Kabukicho district is a hub for all kinds of sex-related businesses. In fact, most of these businesses did not originate in this area, but rather were born elsewhere, drawn to Kabukicho, and then spread throughout the country. SM clubs offering nurse role-playing, hotel escorts based in Shinjuku, and nighttime sex services that are secretly gaining popularity. A reporting team follows the realities of these new sex-related businesses...
Sei fûzoku document 2: The kairaku
1992
5.7Sawako, 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.
Love of Sawako
1990
1980s · 24 titles
6.1Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
Door
1988
5.3A woman was raped in her school years and broke up with her lover because of it. Later, when she became a high school music teacher, she had forbidden liaisons with her colleagues and students at her apartment. However, the hollow in her heart cannot be filled with just carnal desire. A turning point comes when one day she encounters her old lover by chance.
Attacked Female Teacher
1983
5.4After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes people sleep and gets carried away into a new, violent world of ideas.
A Pool Without Water
1982
3.4On their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers on the subway. When one sister commits suicide the other quits school and picks up a yakuza boyfriend who teaches her how to shoot. When the boyfriend is killed by his old gang the girl becomes a cab driver. With a .45 by her side she hunts for the punks who raped her and anyone else who deserves it.
Subway Serial Rape: Uniform Hunting
1987
4.1A drunk husband has a gambling compulsion that ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife’s restaurant in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs. But it’s not enough. The wife has to sacrifice her body as well.
Black Hair Velvet Soul
1982
4.0After school two virginal high school girls, Mari and Emi, decide to visit a disco club in the red light district. While Mari is dancing to the beat Emi is picked up by two men and sexually assaulted. The next day the two men try to force Emi into prostitution. When Mari finds out what happened to her best friend she burns with revenge… and conceals a razor.
Uniform Virgin Pain
1981
2.0Ryoichi, a fugitive, stays at Cape Hotel. Two women were at the hotel. That night, a woman's sudden scream is heard. Looking out, he sees a naked woman bound with ropes, tied to a wheelchair, passing right before his eyes. SM bondage lesbian scenes unfold in the hotel night.
Bondage: Whip and Rope
1984
2.5A hospital welcomes its newest nursing addition, Yukari (Tomomi Segawa), who gets to stay in the first-year dorm on campus where having a man over will get you punished with a heavy hosing ("You dirty animals, stop resisting!"). Her rapport with her fellow nurses is put to the test when she ignores warnings and becomes involved with the head surgeon, Dr. Muraoka, who turns out to have a sinister side including a penchant for non-consensual sex and inappropriate use of cooking ingredients.
Nurse Girls' Dorm: Shamed Angel
1987
6.4Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
No More Comics!
1986
6.6A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
1983
5.7An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
Tattoo
1982
4.7A man with a briefcase is being pursued by a small yakuza gang. After abandoning his vehicle, the man boards a train where he and the other passengers watch a woman being assaulted by three thugs. Intimidated, the commuters do nothing to help. Later, the victim reports the incident to the police and a witness finally comes forward. When the man hears about rape on the news he takes steps to protect his identity and begins to track the victim.
Subway Serial Rape
1985
6.1A seemly ordinary high school girl tormented by masochistic visions gets involved with a teacher who harbours a secret passion for her.
The Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture
1982
4.8The film tells a story about a woman and her relationship with the family of her husband's, in particular her husband's younger brother and father-in-law. Her husband, on the other hand, has an affair with a dominatrix and is obsessed in S&M games.
Abnormal Family
1984
NRPink film by Yukio Kitazawa.
Hard ecstasy: Shisshin sunzen
1986
5.3A 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.
Subway Serial Rape: Lover Hunting
1988
4.2Before her marriage to the son of a rich executive a woman is assaulted by a sadistic gang and video taped. After the wedding the gang begins to make their demands.
S&M Hunter: Wife to be Molested
1987
5.7Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
Fire Festival
1985
2.0An animator with a butt fixation receives a surprise visit from a woman he had an affair with while in Brazil. But a switched suitcase at a traffic backup and a goofy gang of criminals tests their relationship.
Apartment Wife: Ass Slave
1985
3.3An office lady encounters a bank robbery in progress while at the bank to extend the repayment of a loan for her lover. In the ensuing panic, she steals her loan book but is kidnapped by the robbers as they escape. Her life soon becomes a living hell.
Office Lady Kidnapper: Strip!
1985
Two men get to know each other through their shared love of groping on the train, and fall into a bromance. They build a set that looks exactly like the train, and when they open a shop where people can come and play groper with their models inside of this set, it becomes very successful.
Molester's Train: Mischievous Fingers
1982
5.4A 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.
Welcome to the Ogenki Clinic: Feel Good All Over Again
1988
5.6Shinobu Himeno is arrested and thrown into Asahi Female Prison for being an unwilling accomplice in a jewelry store robbery. She’s to serve her sentence in the infamous Cell Block 21, a dismal area full of tough, sex-starved women. Himeno is bullied and abused by inmates and guards. After being framed for starting a fight, she is taken away and tied up. Can the shy Himeno ever escape this living hell?
Women in Heat Behind Bars
1987
3.0An erotic drama depicting the friendship and love affair between two women living together.
Kiyoshi juku onna
1988


