
Acting
Toshiyuki Kitami
Born 1951-05-27 · Tokyo, Japan
Acting credits
6.4War photojournalist Yasuyuki Tsukahara married popular manga artist Yuki Sonoda and had children. Because of Yasayuki's drinking problems the couple divorced. Yasuyuki is now coughing up blood, hospitalized, and violent. Even with all of these problems Yasuyuki can't give up drinking alcohol. His family gets tired. Yasuyuki is then hospitalized in an alcoholic ward. There he finds comfort living with other patients and having conversations with doctors. With the help of his family, Yasuyuki recovers mentally and physically, but his body has already paid a heavy toll.
Wandering Home
2010
6.3The lovely Reiko has taken a new teaching job at a creepy old high school. She is an extremely attractive woman and the young students in her class have fallen for her. One night, after tennis practice, she is brutally assaulted in the locker room shower by a man with a stocking over his face. Left on the floor naked and in shock, she discovers a single puzzle piece left behind by the crazed man. A few days later, a pair of students enact a perverted sexual revenge on Reiko for kicking someone off the tennis team. Could one of these students be the man who brutalized her in the locker room? Who owns the strange puzzle piece? As the mystery unfolds, Reiko must come to terms with her own sexual urges and fate.
Female Teacher: In Front of the Students
1982
5.9A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.
Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon
1981
6.9Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Tokyo!
2008
4.7A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Rain Fall
2009
5.0A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
Lady Karuizawa
1982
5.7Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her…
Angel Guts: Red Porno
1981
7.5The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
Swallowtail Butterfly
1996
4.1A female teacher who is going nowhere with her lover foolishly accepts the awkward advances of a male student who is obsessed with her.
Female Teacher: Twice Raped
1983
5.5Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferred to a tiny countryside branch, where he butts heads with his lazy superior until the two men discover a plot by the competition to put the construction company out of bussiness. With the help of his old biker friends, Kintaro prepares to confront the masterminds behind the scheme.
White-Collar Worker Kintaro
1999
7.4The winds of change blow as a family grapples with unemployment, alienation, mistrust and a lack of communication. When a Japanese salaryman loses his job to outsourcing to China, it's simply the beginning of a series of shattering incidents, leading to the implosion of the family unit.
Tokyo Sonata
2008
7.4A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charged, and goes through endless court sessions, all the while insisting that he is innocent.
I Just Didn't Do It
2007
NRThe story follows Etsuko, a neglected wife from the wealthy Okazaki conglomerate, who travels to the resort town of Karuizawa to escape the summer heat. Disconnected from her husband, she unexpectedly reunites with her childhood friend, Yuji. This reconnection reawakens deep, suppressed desires, leading her on a passionate journey of self-discovery in an abandoned memory-filled mansion.
Symphony of the Sensual Wife Karuizawa
1996
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Joshidai-ryō VS kango gakuen-ryō
1984
6.9The ever-prolific Takashi Miike directs this wild and woolly prison drama, reportedly based on real-life cases of Japanese imprisoned abroad.
The Guys from Paradise
2001
4.3Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.
Love Letter
1981
6.0A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.
Nightmare Detective 2
2008
5.7A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.
Crazed Fruit
1981
NRFourth installment in Deka Matsuri omnibus series. 8 films.
Cop Festival: New Beginning
2003
4.8Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and spits out something close to insanity. A high-profile murder propels him into a psychological odyssey in pursuit of Picasso - a serial killer, snuff peddler and fellow synesthete - who leaves deadly hidden messages in his victims' blood that only Shin can decipher. Lulling his victims into a trance with a spellbinding video game, Picasso leads Shin down a mysterious, hypnotic trail of death.
Synesthesia
2005
4.5After an accident a husband becomes impotent. To help solve the problem of having a sexy wife with an overabundance of desire he invites his three best friends to help out.
Room of Shame
1982
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
5.4A sexually perverse mystery set within the adult magazine industry. A woman is brutally assaulted in an abandoned factory, and her assailant escapes into the darkness after dropping a wad of money. A few years later, a photographer specializing in schoolgirl panty shots meets his match when a mysterious femme fatale volunteers to be his new model. This woman used to be the “queen” of the skin magazines, but she is also hiding a terrible secret and may be a wanted fugitive. Will the photographer escape her sexual grasp?
Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl
1981
In a small town of Hokkaido, Yunni, Fusako Kurokawa (Saki Takaoka), lives a quiet life with her father. Life here is very simple, but it is good enough and she is happy enough. Days go on as usual. with some coincidence, she meets this man one day, Wataru Kadokura (Atsuro Watabe) a man who cannot speak. A very peaceful "time" now becomes part of her daily life as this strong emotion suddenly takes place in her simple quiet life.
Echo of Silence
2008