Shinji Imaoka Movies

Anata wo matteimasu is a feature-film comedy directed by Shinji Imaoka (Underwater Love, Uncle’s Paradise, Frog Song, Lunchbox, The Woman of...

One night, an unidentified object suddenly appeared in the garden of a broken apartment in downtown where the whispers of love next door resounded...

One day, Sayoko is raped by a masked man after school, but afterwards, she asks her student Takao, who enters the classroom, to keep it a secret. A...

After saving homeless Nozomi from an attack in the park, truck driver Ryuuhei offers Nozomi a part-time job in his truck and decides to set on an...

Shigeo is released from prison and immediately beaten up by some old associates, which results in him losing his memory. Kasumi, who just by chance...

Shoko, a married woman, works in a hospital as a nurse. One day, one of the patients happens to meet an old boyfriend, Tagawa. Shoko learned from...

Transfer student Mizuki is bullied mercilessly by her classmate. Nevertheless, she is always able to maintain her composure. Kirie, who is also...

A vampire, Brado, becomes responsible for taking care of a girl, Setsuna, in exchange for his life saved by the evil that created her. The evil tells...

A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in...

This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa, a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a...

As men and women around the age of 30 struggle to reach their dreams, they also go through trial and error in love. This work, which depicts the...

In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out...

Noriko pours her passion into teaching by day, yet her nights blaze with jealousy and desire for a young boy named Kōichi—whose...

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to...

Haruko, a 19-year-old young wife, has an abnormal love for sex and spends all her time having extramarital affairs. She has sex with her husband,...

A ten-year love story told from the perspective of the selfish and eccentric main character, "I", who falls for Manami in high school but also...

Misa is caught up in a drug crime and the dark clutches of a cocaine syndicate close in on her... An erotic mystery starring Oba Kumiko set against...

Romantic fantasy about the ruckus that ensues after a mother and daughter switch bodies. Director Imaoka Shinji wrote the script for The Drudgery...

Rumi, married into a farming family, grows increasingly frustrated with her husband's lack of interest in their nighttime intimacy. Her only escape...