Ryuichi Hiroki Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Editor

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Bakushi

Crew: Director, Editor

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Ryuichi Hiroki began his career directing erotica, and he returns to themes of sexual obsession and fetishism in this documentary. Kinbaku is a Japanese word referring to the art of rope tying for purposes of bondage, and in Bakushi Hiroki explores this distinctly Read More

2007
Love on Sunday 2: Last Words

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Love on a Sunday director Ryuichi Hiroki (Vibrator, Tokyo Trash Baby) returns to the realm of the romantic drama with this delicate tale of a young woman (Always star Maki Horikita) struggling to come to terms with her impending death and the fact that she will never have the opportunity to Read More

2007
It's Only Talk

Crew: Director

Actors: Shinobu Terashima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomorowo Taguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki

Synopsis: Suffering from manic depression and looking to start life anew in a small suburban community, a manic depressive thirty-something finds solace in the company of her recently-divorced cousin in director Ryuichi Hiroki's intimate psychological drama. Yuko (Shinobu Terashima) has walked away from her Read More

2006
M

Crew: Director

Actors: Miwon, Kengo Kora, Tomorowo Taguchi, Nao Omori, Jiro Tawaro

Synopsis: An adolescent's distrust of the world of grown-ups is often confirmed by what goes on around him in this offbeat drama. Minoru Masaki (Kengo Kora) is a straight-laced boy in his early teens who makes pocket money after school by delivering newspapers. Having been abused as a young child, Minoru Read More

2006
Love on Sunday

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vibrator and Tokyo Trash Baby director Ryuichi Hiroki takes the helm for this tale of high school romance starring Takami Mizuhashi, Ryuya Wakaba, and Yuria Haga. Set over the course of a single day, this hybrid of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Some Kind of Wonderful tells a tale of teen Read More

2006
Female

Crew: Director

Actors: Kyoko Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Chihiro Otsuka, Mitsuko Ishii, Hairi Katagiri

2005
L'Amant

Crew: Director

Actors: Nozomi Ando, Tomorowo Taguchi, Jun Murakami, Ren Osugi, Ayaka Maeda

2004
Girlfriend, Someone Please Stop the World

Crew: Director

Actors: Kinuo Yamada, Aoba Kawai, Tomorowo Taguchi

2004
Vibrator

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Shinobu Terashima, Nao Omori, Tomoroh Taguchi

Synopsis: Internationally acclaimed Japanese film director Ryuichi Hiroki (I Am an S&M Writer, Tokyo Trash Baby) takes the helm for this cathartic road movie concerning the transformative journey of an emotionally-unstable writer and adapted from the novel by Mari Akasaka. Rei (Shinobu Terashima) is a Read More

2003
Tokyo Trash Baby

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Japanese cinema sensation Ryuichi Hiroki offers a knowing critique of modern consumer culture and human longing in a highly-original romantic drama concerning a shy waitress' growing fascination with a struggling musician. Miyuki (Mami Nakamura) is a timid café waitress. Miyuki's neighbor Read More

2000
Happyaku Two Lap Runner

Crew: Director

Actors: Shunsuke Matsuoka, Yujin Normura, Tsugumi Arimura, Miwako Kawai, Sasamoto Masayuki

Synopsis: Former adult video director Ryuichi Hiroki makes his straight-flick debut with this stylized coming-of-age drama about a pair of long-distance runners. Kenji (Shunsuke Matsuoka), a rich kid from the tony neighborhood of Shonan Beach, is obsessed with the memory of his dead track star friend, with Read More

1994
Sadistic City

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1993
Kankin Sei No Dorei: Ikenie 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ryuichi Hiroki, Genji Nakamura, and Hitoshi Ishikawa left Nikkatsu to form their own company, Yu Productions, following the mondo S & M film Sekkan. At Yu, they continued to direct "ero-gro" pinku eiga together under the collective pseudonym Go Ijuin, and this Ijuin film achieved cult Read More

1986
Sekkan

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The final Nikkatsu film directed by Ryuichi Hiroki, Genji Nakamura, and Hitoshi Ishikawa under the collective pseudonym Go Ijuin (Kankin Sei No Dorei: Ikenie 2), this is basically S & M performance art masquerading as a feature. Kurara is the mistress who dominates slave-girl Fujiko Suegetsu in Read More

1985
Ikenie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ryuichi Hiroki, Genji Nakamura, and Hitoshi Ishikawa directed this softcore pinku-eiga film for the famed Nikkatsu studio under the collective pseudonym "Go Ijuin." It's the story of an S&M master (former newspaper editor Shiko Shima) who surprises his girlfriend/slave (Fujiko Suetsugu) with a new Read More

1985