Biography
Shinji Imaoka (b. 1965, Osaka, Japan) belongs to a group of Japanese erotic filmmakers designated as the Seven Lucky Gods (shichifukujin), who debuted in pink film at the end of the 1990s. After graduating from university, he began working as an assistant to Hisayasu Sato and other directors of Shishi Pro, a pink film production company. In 1995 he debuted as a director for Kokuei productions with the erotic movie Waiting for the Comet (Suisei-machi). His dryly humorous pink movies, containing uncommonly few sex scenes and focusing on tragicomic characters who desperately seek an escape from their stereotypical lives, have been successful at foreign festivals and with domestic audiences. Lunch Box (Tammono, 2004) and Frog Song (Kaeru no uta, 2005) even made it into wider distribution in Japan.
46. IFF Karlovy Vary
Director
Movies | |
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2023 |
One Way Love |
Two On the Road |
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Umibe no koibito |
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2021 |
Aoi chan wa yarasete kurenai |
2020 |
Reiko iruka |
2018 |
Yamikin gurentai |
2017 |
Deep Story |
Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke |
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2016 |
The Temptation Came at Stormy Night |
Waiting for You |
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2014 |
Kawašita-san wa nando mo jattekuru |
The Woman of Shinjuku |
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Tsuma ga koishita natsu |
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2011 |
Underwater Love |
2010 |
Shimada yoko ni aitai |
2009 |
Hakujitsumu |
2008 |
Tasogare |
2006 |
Uncle's Paradise |
2005 |
Frog Song |
2004 |
Lunch Box |
1999 |
Despite All That |
1998 |
Bottled Vulva 1 |
Demeking |
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1996 |
Chikan densha: Kanjiru iboibo |
Screenwriter
Actor
Movies | |
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2017 |
Sweating the Small Stuff |
2016 |
Aki no rijú |
2015 |
La La La at Rock Bottom |
2014 |
Sekai no owari no izuko neko |
Documentaries | |
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2006 |
What's a Director? |