Directing
Hiroyuki Oki
Born March 23, 1964 · Higashimurayama, Tokyo, Japan
Died October 14, 2025 · aged 61
Born in Tokyo in 1964. Graduated from the Architectural Department of the Faculty of Engineering of Tokyo University in 1988. Studied film production at the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image and was recognized for his 3-hour long thesis film "The Film of Buddy Matsumae" ("Matsumae-kun no eiga" 1989). His film "Swimming Prohibited" won the Special Juror's Prize at the 1990 Image Forum Festi…
Known For
The Family Complete · 2010The Family Complete
★ 4.62010
MovieScience FictionComedy
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 Whispered City · 2000The Whispered City
★ 9.02000
MovieDrama
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Looking for an Angel · 1999Looking for an Angel
★ 5.91999
MovieDrama
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.
Tama asobi · 1996Tama asobi
★ 4.81996
MovieDrama
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.
Sex Friend Nurezakari · 1999Sex Friend Nurezakari
★ 4.01999
MovieHorrorComedy
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.
I Like You, I Like You Very Much · 1994I Like You, I Like You Very Much
★ 3.41994
MovieDrama
A tense love triangle unfolds as You struggles with his affair, questioning his identity and desires while caught between two men who change his life forever.
Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change · 2012Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change
2012
MovieDocumentary
Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as “Seeing” in 2009, six co-writers participated to directing the omnibus film, "Seeing". Initially, there were no plans to expand it into trilogy, and Matsumoto was also limitedly involved in the work. Later, Matsumoto envisioneds works that pursued the omnibus format, and sets up a common theme of "memory.” Afterwards, Matsumoto begun the production of Pilgrimage into the Memory, a reconstruction of works produced by five participating artists. However, the Great East Japan Earthquake occurred while producing the work. Matsumoto shocked by the earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, he decided to produce a new work, All Things Change, and titled it's trilogy, Toro no Ono Daisambu. The third part, All Things Change, consists of videos produced by Tanotaiga, Kanako Inaki, Hiroyuki Oki, Okuno Kunito, and Tanako Tanaka.
Tears of Ecstasy · 1995Tears of Ecstasy
★ 2.81995
MovieComedyDrama
A conceptual pinku film by renowned experimental artist Hiroyuki Oki, which is conceived of 60 shots which all are 60 seconds long and represent an absurdist take on the narrative and stylistic schemes of erotic cinema.
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