Directing

Kenji Yamauchi

Known for

Directing

Credits

6 titles

Known for

Chikan niizuma: Tamarazu motomete poster
NR

Eri was leading a fulfilling life, having just married Keiichi. However, she harbored a secret side: a compulsion to shoplift. One day, she received a photograph of herself in the act of shoplifting and was threatened by a stranger. Through a mobile phone sent to her, she was forced to engage in humiliating acts. As the man’s demands escalated, Eri was raped in her own home. She had become a slave to the man's pleasure...

Chikan niizuma: Tamarazu motomete

1999

Inkô taxi: Hiwaina onnatachi poster
NR

Domon, a taxi driver, was driving around in search of his wife, Reiko, who had disappeared without a trace. One day, he picked up an adulterous couple, Yoshiko and Yasukawa. Yoshiko offered him money, asking if they could have sex in the car and if he would watch them do it. After dropping Yoshiko off, Ayano—a sex worker—hurriedly got into his cab. While Domon had pulled over for a break, a colleague named Kamijo began telling a story about picking up a ghost; soon after, Domon himself ended up picking up a ghostly passenger named Misaki. Amidst these events, Ayano got into his car once again...

Inkô taxi: Hiwaina onnatachi

2000

No artwork available
NR

Nozomi, a high school student, lost her mother at a young age and was raised with great care by her father, Daijiro. One day, after accidentally breaking a vase belonging to a transfer student named Marina, she is forced into compensated dating to pay for the damages. From then on, men begin to swarm around her one after another. Sensing something was wrong with his daughter, Daijiro saves her from danger and reveals the shocking fate that has been imposed upon her...

Seifuku midara na tenshi: Suitsukusu

1999

Masculine Mirage poster
4.7

Kyoichi Godo, a street gangster, is haunted by recurring nightmares in which he sees two versions of himself—one violent and impulsive, the other cold and detached. As the visions blur the line between reality and illusion, he struggles to maintain control. When he becomes entangled in a brutal power struggle within the underworld, the events unfold exactly as in his dreams. As violence escalates around him, Kyoichi is pushed closer to the edge—are these nightmares merely visions, or something far more real?

Masculine Mirage

1999

Chikan densha: Yurete zecchô go byô mae poster
2.0

Takeo, a dull, middle-aged man with a delusional habit and a timid personality, is mistaken for a groper by a young woman on the commuter train. He thinks he'll be taken to the police, but for some reason he's taken to the bank of a railway bridge.

Chikan densha: Yurete zecchô go byô mae

2000

Groper Train: Target the Impossible Woman poster
2.0

Kenichi, a student at a cram school, witnesses a young office lady being attacked on a crowded train. Kenichi musters up his courage and helps the lady. However, the lady yells at him for taking away her fun. From then on, Kenichi rides crowded trains every day in search of thrills. One day, a tough-looking man grabs his arm...

Groper Train: Target the Impossible Woman

1999

Film credits

2000s · 2 titles

1990s · 4 titles

Chikan niizuma: Tamarazu motomete poster
NR

Eri was leading a fulfilling life, having just married Keiichi. However, she harbored a secret side: a compulsion to shoplift. One day, she received a photograph of herself in the act of shoplifting and was threatened by a stranger. Through a mobile phone sent to her, she was forced to engage in humiliating acts. As the man’s demands escalated, Eri was raped in her own home. She had become a slave to the man's pleasure...

Chikan niizuma: Tamarazu motomete

1999

No artwork available
NR

Nozomi, a high school student, lost her mother at a young age and was raised with great care by her father, Daijiro. One day, after accidentally breaking a vase belonging to a transfer student named Marina, she is forced into compensated dating to pay for the damages. From then on, men begin to swarm around her one after another. Sensing something was wrong with his daughter, Daijiro saves her from danger and reveals the shocking fate that has been imposed upon her...

Seifuku midara na tenshi: Suitsukusu

1999

Masculine Mirage poster
4.7

Kyoichi Godo, a street gangster, is haunted by recurring nightmares in which he sees two versions of himself—one violent and impulsive, the other cold and detached. As the visions blur the line between reality and illusion, he struggles to maintain control. When he becomes entangled in a brutal power struggle within the underworld, the events unfold exactly as in his dreams. As violence escalates around him, Kyoichi is pushed closer to the edge—are these nightmares merely visions, or something far more real?

Masculine Mirage

1999

Groper Train: Target the Impossible Woman poster
2.0

Kenichi, a student at a cram school, witnesses a young office lady being attacked on a crowded train. Kenichi musters up his courage and helps the lady. However, the lady yells at him for taking away her fun. From then on, Kenichi rides crowded trains every day in search of thrills. One day, a tough-looking man grabs his arm...

Groper Train: Target the Impossible Woman

1999