Rei Sakamoto

Directing

Rei Sakamoto

Born 1973-09-08 · Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan

Born in Tokyo in 1973. After studying under Takahisa Zeze and working as an assistant director on several Kokuei films, he made his directorial debut with "Sex Friend: Nurezakari" (1999). He has also been active as a producer since 2013.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Adultery is Something You Want to Do No Matter How Old You Are poster
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Shigeo and Yaeko, a middle-aged couple, are involved in a car accident one day. Shigeo dies, but Yaeko survives. However, it turns out that the two were having an affair. Involving both of their families, the chain of explosive love, lust and desire continues.

Adultery is Something You Want to Do No Matter How Old You Are

2009

The Suicide Chain poster
2.0

After attempting to meet someone new on a dating website, Chihiro starts talking to Makoto, who is asking around about a string of suicides. She agrees to meet with him, as she knew one of the girls that recently passed. After the two begin to connect a bit, Makoto gets an e-mail from Chihiro, saying she doesn't see a purpose to continue living.

The Suicide Chain

2001

Yariman poster
1.0

Kenichi, who had fallen into a rut with his long-term girlfriend Miki, was no longer able to get an erection during sex. One day, Kenichi unexpectedly reunites with his high school sweetheart, Yoshiko, and invites her back to his apartment. There, he makes love to her for the first time in 12 years, even though she is a married woman...

Yariman

2008

My Technicolor Girl poster
NR

Nagano has had a sickness of the heart for 40 years and has been hospitalized at the mental hospital in Fukushima. However, during the evacuation when the Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, knowing that he’s already completely healed, he makes his way back out to into the world. Having been hospitalized from when he was in his teens until his fifties, his story is like that of Urashima Taro, the Japanese fisherman who went beneath the sea as a young man and returned to an unfamiliar world. However, his heart from long ago is for the first time full of feelings to meet the woman he loved. Before long, Nagano learns that the woman has taken refuge in Tokyo and lives with her son and his wife, and sets out on a bike headed for Tokyo.

My Technicolor Girl

2016

Love Square poster
2.0

Miki has a good job and works in an office. She's been dating Ryosuke and they're happy together... except for the fact that Miki is also in a relationship with her college professor Tanaka. Tanaka is trying to break up with Miki because of his wife, but Miki won't hear of it. Ryosuke is also unfaithful, and he has a one-night stand with Chihiro, who also has a boyfriend. The plot thickens when both girls discover they are pregnant, and don't know who to name as father. This romantic drama about relationships is proof that love can also come in squares.

Love Square

2005

In the Case of Noriko poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

In the Case of Noriko

2015

Love in a Single Room poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love in a Single Room

2022

Shinpei poster
NR

An older brother who can't fit into society, a father who has given up on his future, and a younger sister who is tied to the house. This is the story of the small steps these three people take. The Great East Japan Earthquake suddenly changed the peaceful daily life of the people of Fukushima. Many people lost their homes and jobs due to not only the earthquake and tsunami, but also the nuclear accident, and left Fukushima. This is the story of a family living in the aftermath three years later, in Fukushima, where deep scars remain.

Shinpei

2024

Voluptuous Beauty: Wanna Do It Desperately! poster
2.0

An erotic drama depicting men visiting their ex-girlfriends. Kenichi learns online that Yoshiko, a classmate he dated in high school, is working as a prostitute in Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture. He goes to meet her with his friends Minoru and Yoshiyuki, but gradually the feelings of the three men begin to intertwine.

Voluptuous Beauty: Wanna Do It Desperately!

2003

Sex Friend Nurezakari poster
4.0

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 taping themselves having sex. The four of them continue the journey to find Tsutomu. When they arrive at his home, his parents inform them that he was killed in an accident some years previously. What happens next is both bizarre and strangely heart warming as the four friends play a baseball game with the ghost of Tsutomu and thus seal their friendships for good, as all of them discover more about themselves and each other.

Sex Friend Nurezakari

1999

Sex Friend Nurezakari poster
4.0

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 taping themselves having sex. The four of them continue the journey to find Tsutomu. When they arrive at his home, his parents inform them that he was killed in an accident some years previously. What happens next is both bizarre and strangely heart warming as the four friends play a baseball game with the ghost of Tsutomu and thus seal their friendships for good, as all of them discover more about themselves and each other.

Sex Friend Nurezakari

1999

Whispering Stillness poster
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Aki, the young daughter of the Iwatas, disappeared five years ago. They still distribute missing person fliers every week. The husband, Masayuki, would like to move on with their life, and is sad that their marriage has cooled off. The wife, Ryoko, spends her time drinking, writing Aki's name on school notebooks and taking care of a school backpack that they never got to use. One day, the Iwatas are approached by a pregnant young woman called Rina, who wants to help them distribute fliers. Ryoko quickly gravitates towards a friendship with Rina, as if to fill a hole in her heart.

Whispering Stillness

2023

The Strawberries and the Gun poster
2.0

Older brother Kenichi and younger brother Takashi had not seen each other for a while, but they meet at their estranged father's funeral. The father had moved to a small town and remarried and has a daughter, who is supposed to be their half-sister. Her whereabouts are unknown, as she left home at a very young age. One of the brothers mistakenly meets her, under very strange and disturbing circumstances...

The Strawberries and the Gun

2007