Kōichi Imaizumi

Acting

Kōichi Imaizumi

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

83 titles

Actor, director, and screenwriter. Born in 1965.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

The Secret to My Silky Skin poster
5.0

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 first night when he arrives, the fuck buddy starts to have sex with him just as usual, but he is somehow unable to respond. In fact, he has been concerned about a certain thing since before he visits Tokyo.

The Secret to My Silky Skin

2014

The Family Complete poster
4.6

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 Family Complete

2010

Hana-Dama poster
6.2

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.

Hana-Dama

2014

Where Love Blooms in the Sky poster
2.0

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 government official, that the fire was ignited...but that lover was also demoted and there was no sign of him looking back...

Where Love Blooms in the Sky

2011

Kyonyû mibôjin onegai! Yurushite... poster
2.0

Taniguchi Shuhei, who is separated from his wife Akiko, is suddenly laid off. Meanwhile, Akiko, a beautiful career woman, is having a physical relationship with Tsukasahiro, a man she trusts at work. At the same time, Kakihana Sawako, a widow who lives nearby Shuhei, has also just been laid off from her job. One morning, Shuhei is watching a radio exercise class...

Kyonyû mibôjin onegai! Yurushite...

2014

Boys Hitting the Road poster
3.7

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 benefits. Together with Kenichi, the bar's number one, they borrow Ishii's old car and set off to northern Kanto. First up is Sato, a company president with a foot fetish. Although married, he can't stop playing around with men, and whenever he comes to Tokyo, he requests Kenichi. In order not to let the people around him know, he gives Kenichi more money than the tab. Next is Yamamoto, a city council member in the local assembly. A born sadist, he likes to tie Kenichi himself or have a young bondage artist tie him up, and then watch it happen. Kenichi continues on his journey, but he has another goal: to meet Shouji, a man he used to date...

Boys Hitting the Road

2017

Touch of the Other poster
NR

A man comes to a public toilet at midnight. He observes men as they come in for sex and leave. Once in a while he tries to join them, but it doesn’t always work. This film began as a commission for the January 2016 performance in Tokyo, Japan of TOUCH OF THE OTHER, co-directed by Takao Kawaguchi & Jonathan M. Hall.

Touch of the Other

2016

Berlin Drifters poster
5.9

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 romance (and marriage?) were quickly crushed since the German was only interested in sex, not even letting Ryota stay for the night. That is why Ryota ended up spending the night in the dark room of the sex club. Kôichi for some reason lets Ryota stay at his apartment. They have sex. Ryota goes out almost everyday to get laid by various local men and comes home to Kôichi's. Increasingly caught up with a strange feeling that is akin to but not quite frustration or curiosity (needless to say, it is not even close to love), Kôichi gradually gives himself up to sex with Ryota.

Berlin Drifters

2017

2000s · 7 titles

First Love poster
4.8

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.

First Love

2007

Hard rape: Susuri naku hitozuma poster
NR

Junnosuke, a bureaucrat, and his wife, Masae—a couple whose relationship had long since gone cold. One night, while Junnosuke was away on a business trip, Masae was preparing to sleep alone in their quiet residential home when she discovered a stranger standing by her bedside. The man restrained her, ransacked the room, and then violated her with frenzied brutality. From the very next day, the man began to appear, relentlessly pursuing her...

Hard rape: Susuri naku hitozuma

2003

Naughty Boys poster
4.0

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 on a night journey that will lead him to cheat on his partner. Will they be able to rehabilitate their relationship?

Naughty Boys

2002

Naughty Boys poster
5.0

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.

Naughty Boys

2001

Hard Duty poster
2.0

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 begins to distance himself from Koide, the man he once connected with, Koide unexpectedly encounters Kirino at a bar, leading to a dangerous entanglement. As desire, betrayal, and trauma collide, the three officers are pulled into a dark triangle where love and danger blur—and finding a way out becomes increasingly uncertain.

Hard Duty

2001

No artwork available
2.0

Yoda, a writer specializing in the adult entertainment industry, visited a role-play-themed sex club with a *rakugo* storyteller for a weekly magazine feature, where he covered a session involving a female college student named Yumemi and the performer's "widow" role-play scenario. Although Yoda had a fiancée named Mari, she had recently asked to postpone their wedding, which was scheduled to take place in a few months. Yoda consulted Inada—a writer who was also acting as their matchmaker—about the situation. Inada’s wife, Yasuko, met with Mari to hear her out; it turned out that Mari had been married before and was harboring anxieties about marriage and a child from her previous relationship. After talking things over with Yoda, Mari decided to reciprocate his sincere feelings. Just then, however, Inada passed away suddenly...

Mofukuzuma: Shitchi no Kaori

2000

When an Angel Fell in Love poster
3.7

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. Then, one day, a naked angel descended. Daniel, an angel who had just become human, stays in Gosuke's room. Daniel, the angel who fell in love with Gosuke, who was nearing death, was deceived by his clever words...

When an Angel Fell in Love

2002

1990s · 45 titles

Female Teacher in Black Lingerie poster
5.0

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 Ikuo with two students...

Female Teacher in Black Lingerie

1996

Angel in the Toilet poster
4.0

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

Angel in the Toilet

1999

Turtle Vision poster
5.7

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

Turtle Vision

1991

Birthday poster
5.7

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 lonely souls will bring unexpected consequences.

Birthday

1993

An Aria on Gazes poster
5.2

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 their encounters with the male clientele.

An Aria on Gazes

1992

Seifuku nusumi-dori-ma: Gekisha naburu poster
5.2

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 they are all patients of his psychologist sister, and he's been eavesdropping on their sessions.

Seifuku nusumi-dori-ma: Gekisha naburu

1990

Juvenile Crime poster
3.6

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.

Juvenile Crime

1997

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland poster
5.6

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 outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland

1996

New Female Prison Guard: Pistil Within The Cell poster
NR

A female prison guard arrives to conduct a psychiatric evaluation of an 18-year-old female inmate. But what awaits her? Lesbianism, S&M, rape, gang rape... An erotic film depicting forbidden desires and passions unfolding within a women's prison.

New Female Prison Guard: Pistil Within The Cell

1998

Silencer Made of Glass poster
3.5

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.

Silencer Made of Glass

1991

The Fetist poster
6.9

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

The Fetist

1998

Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami poster
6.3

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 childlike daughter to play with.

Niizuma kahanshin: Washizukami

1991

Night of Body's Model poster
3.6

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 increasingly sensitive to her thoughts and feelings. A scientist father and son also live in the building; the son has an obsession with prosthetic body parts.

Night of Body's Model

1996

Umagoya no reijô poster
6.0

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.

Umagoya no reijô

1991

Looking for an Angel poster
5.9

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 had visited just prior to dying. In Kochi, all boys seem to be angels.

Looking for an Angel

1999

Love − Zero = Infinity poster
5.0

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 to grow between them, a bond which can only end in tragedy...

Love − Zero = Infinity

1994

Rafureshia poster
6.1

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 night becomes longer — and stranger — than they could’ve expected.

Rafureshia

1995

Hitozuma hentai biyoshitsu poster
5.8

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.

Hitozuma hentai biyoshitsu

1994

Kyrie Eleison poster
5.8

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.

Kyrie Eleison

1993

Chikan to nozoki: fujin-ka byôtô poster
4.0

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 zany antics include the misadventures of a voyeuristic nurse, an exhibitionistic patient, a doctor and nurse who engage in S&M, a hypochondriac, and a lesbian nurse who sleeps with the patients.

Chikan to nozoki: fujin-ka byôtô

1994

Negation poster
3.2

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-suicide pact.

Negation

1993

Hitozuma gômon: Sandan-zeme poster
6.3

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 the film with alienation, kinky sex, and psychological subplots.

Hitozuma gômon: Sandan-zeme

1992

Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki poster
5.2

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 assignment, Kikuchi is understandably shocked, but quickly warms to her new career and becomes quite the professional. Unfortunately, her husband soon discovers the true nature of her work.

Wakaoku-sama: Futomono-biraki

1994

The Color of My Heart poster
4.5

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 confidence in being themselves. Curious and captivated, Tadashi begins to follow them, gradually becoming part of their lives. But as their connection deepens, an unexpected incident changes everything.

The Color of My Heart

1999

Honban: Vibe sekkan poster
4.7

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 punishment to people who annoy her.

Honban: Vibe sekkan

1992

Angel in the Dark poster
4.0

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 vulnerable to Imaizumi's attentions. After a time, Ishihara begins to manipulate her suitor, talking him into brutally raping all the girls who tormented her. Excited by schoolgirls as he is, Imaizumi has no problem acceding to Ishihara's demands at first, but eventually rebels due to his love for the vengeful nymphet.

Angel in the Dark

1993

No artwork available
5.5

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 female enemies by sending him secret e-mails.

Seifuku onanie: Shojo no shitagi

1992

Kaikan onanie: Niizuma-hen poster
4.0

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 hearts that are at odds. Takahiro has never tried to embrace Reiko since they got married. He always makes Reiko masturbate, and he just enjoys watching her do it.

Kaikan onanie: Niizuma-hen

1993

Suddenly Arriving poster
7.0

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.

Suddenly Arriving

1995

Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration! poster
4.2

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 Sachiko, a woman who never smiles, and starts working as a live-in employee at the printing house where she works. Shuji has a lot of emotionless sex with Sachiko.

Blissful Genuine Sex: Penetration!

1995

Reiko Married Woman poster
1.0

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. Reiko goes to his room at the request of Hongo, a man who picks up her lost ring.

Reiko Married Woman

1995

Look Into Me poster
3.7

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 watches and masturbates joylessly to the home-made SM videos she made with her husband.

Look Into Me

1991

Don't let it bring you down poster
5.6

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 loves movies. Meanwhile, back in his rural hometown, his father-in-law is in critical condition, but his sister-in-law neglects to care for him and instead engages in phone sex with him.

Don't let it bring you down

1993

Group Molesters: Peeping on the Housewife poster
9.0

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 lecherous onlookers spy with voyeuristic glee, tossing crude, provocative remarks. As passion intensifies, the rendezvous devolves into a chaotic melee of lust, sex and betrayal; what begins as daring escapades quickly darkens into brutal power plays where forbidden desire and violence blur. Amid raucous seaside parties and seething rivalries, erotic debauchery unravels in a night marked by twisted seduction, intense sexual acts, shocking coercion, and the irrevocable shattering of lives by uncontrolled, corrupt passion.

Group Molesters: Peeping on the Housewife

1991

Gift poster
2.0

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.

Gift

1997

No artwork available
3.7

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 woman meets a kinky dentist who helps her to discover the pleasures of pain.

Dirty Blue

1992

Tama asobi poster
4.8

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 reluctant, supported by his lover Michiko.

Tama asobi

1996

Mad Affair: Promiscuous Wife poster
4.7

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

Mad Affair: Promiscuous Wife

1994

End of the Journey poster
2.0

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.

End of the Journey

1998

No artwork available
NR

A Kafkaesque porno like "Silence of the Lambs"

独房X

1998

Just an Illusion poster
4.0

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.

Just an Illusion

1991

Trans Story: Until I Become a Woman Again poster
NR

Yuka, a trans woman who has moved to Tokyo, starts working at the gay bar ‘Laura’. Thanks to her beauty and cheerful personality, she quickly becomes the bar’s star attraction. What’s more, Yuka is over the moon when she discovers that her first love, Shinya Mochikura, also lives in the city. However, when she reunites with him, Yuka is stunned by Shinya’s cold attitude…

Trans Story: Until I Become a Woman Again

1997

Chikan onanie nozoki poster
3.3

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."

Chikan onanie nozoki

1992

No artwork available
2.0

Pink film directed by Tarô Araki.

Chikan bôkô bus: Shigoku

1998

Shufu no Sei: Midara na Yagai Etchi poster
2.0

Haruhiko, a shop owner, took a vacation to go on a trip with his wife, Maki. However, Maki—suspicious of a relationship between him and his employee, Hanae—insisted that Hanae join them, ostensibly for a company retreat. The three stayed at a seaside hotel. While out for a walk, Haruhiko ran into Hanae and, at her invitation, became intimate with her. Maki witnessed the encounter and wandered the rural town in a daze, eventually stumbling upon a "black-and-white show" performed by Shinji and Misa, a couple traveling in a van...

Shufu no Sei: Midara na Yagai Etchi

1999

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Secret to My Silky Skin poster
5.0

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 first night when he arrives, the fuck buddy starts to have sex with him just as usual, but he is somehow unable to respond. In fact, he has been concerned about a certain thing since before he visits Tokyo.

The Secret to My Silky Skin

2014

The Secret to My Silky Skin poster
5.0

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 first night when he arrives, the fuck buddy starts to have sex with him just as usual, but he is somehow unable to respond. In fact, he has been concerned about a certain thing since before he visits Tokyo.

The Secret to My Silky Skin

2014

The Secret to My Silky Skin poster
5.0

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 first night when he arrives, the fuck buddy starts to have sex with him just as usual, but he is somehow unable to respond. In fact, he has been concerned about a certain thing since before he visits Tokyo.

The Secret to My Silky Skin

2014

Angel in the Toilet poster
4.0

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

Angel in the Toilet

1999

Angel in the Toilet poster
4.0

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

Angel in the Toilet

1999

Angel in the Toilet poster
4.0

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

Angel in the Toilet

1999

The Family Complete poster
4.6

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 Family Complete

2010

The Family Complete poster
4.6

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 Family Complete

2010

The Family Complete poster
4.6

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 Family Complete

2010

First Love poster
4.8

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.

First Love

2007

First Love poster
4.8

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.

First Love

2007

First Love poster
4.8

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.

First Love

2007

Naughty Boys poster
4.0

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 on a night journey that will lead him to cheat on his partner. Will they be able to rehabilitate their relationship?

Naughty Boys

2002

Naughty Boys poster
4.0

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 on a night journey that will lead him to cheat on his partner. Will they be able to rehabilitate their relationship?

Naughty Boys

2002

Naughty Boys poster
5.0

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.

Naughty Boys

2001

The Color of My Heart poster
4.5

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 confidence in being themselves. Curious and captivated, Tadashi begins to follow them, gradually becoming part of their lives. But as their connection deepens, an unexpected incident changes everything.

The Color of My Heart

1999

The Real Faces of Young Men poster
2.0

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!" and storms out. However, Shinji struggles to explain his true feelings. While living apart for a while, they all realize how much they need each other. Eventually, Shinji gathers the courage to go and bring Hiroki back.

The Real Faces of Young Men

1998

Queer Boys and Girls on the Bullet Train poster
4.0

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 theme, and compiled the resulting shorts in random order to create this omnibus film. The result is a queer film, by queer filmmakers, for a queer audience. Each short is its own short story, and the styles range from drama and experimental film and animation. (2024 complete version includes all eleven films, 65 mins.)

Queer Boys and Girls on the Bullet Train

2004

Solid poster
NR

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.

Solid

2021

Touch of the Other poster
NR

A man comes to a public toilet at midnight. He observes men as they come in for sex and leave. Once in a while he tries to join them, but it doesn’t always work. This film began as a commission for the January 2016 performance in Tokyo, Japan of TOUCH OF THE OTHER, co-directed by Takao Kawaguchi & Jonathan M. Hall.

Touch of the Other

2016

Touch of the Other poster
NR

A man comes to a public toilet at midnight. He observes men as they come in for sex and leave. Once in a while he tries to join them, but it doesn’t always work. This film began as a commission for the January 2016 performance in Tokyo, Japan of TOUCH OF THE OTHER, co-directed by Takao Kawaguchi & Jonathan M. Hall.

Touch of the Other

2016

Berlin Drifters poster
5.9

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 romance (and marriage?) were quickly crushed since the German was only interested in sex, not even letting Ryota stay for the night. That is why Ryota ended up spending the night in the dark room of the sex club. Kôichi for some reason lets Ryota stay at his apartment. They have sex. Ryota goes out almost everyday to get laid by various local men and comes home to Kôichi's. Increasingly caught up with a strange feeling that is akin to but not quite frustration or curiosity (needless to say, it is not even close to love), Kôichi gradually gives himself up to sex with Ryota.

Berlin Drifters

2017