Movies: Tetsuya Kobayashi

Kotani lives in a shabby apartment and aims to be a scriptwriter. The only view from his north-facing window is the lewd acts of two men engaged in broad daylight in the apartment opposite... One day, a film company asks Kotani to write a story about...

After learning Otoya's secret marriage, Junpei is torn, but Otoya offers a solution: move in together as roommates, navigating their complicated feelings....

A crew decides to shoot the spoof ghost sighting documentary Mini-Skirt Adventures by a secluded lake outside of Tokyo, where young men have been rumored to disappear without a trace for several years. As a storm hits, the crew seek refuge at an appa...

Fu-yan, also known as Fujikawa, runs a business producing underground videos that are secretly sold by electronics store owner Umeda and his wife Makiko. One day, he receives a request from Umeda to make a new video. The lecherous old man Kikuchi wan...

Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners — Asami is in a slump and is danger of slipping into the C League and she blames her husband Kazuya, and Rina i...

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of them. Each of them ...

Kaori and Natsumi go to the same university. They met for the first time after learning they had the same boyfriend. Their boyfriend, Naoki, was a gangster. He blackmailed Kaori with a sex video and forced her to help him with credit card fraud, whil...

Fuko, who lost her parents and lives alone in a single house, will work as a clerk, but a man who meets her first time with a business partner calls out to her for the first time in a while....

Sakurai is a pretty police office lady working in Roppongi Police Station. Instead of a challenging environment, her daily work is simple and rather boring though she belongs to the Serious Crime Detection Section. A homicide case in Roppongi turns t...

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Gosuke was a school teacher, but in the past, he made a male student commit suicide after an illicit love affair. After changing jobs to work as a hotel escort for men, Gosuke felt a sense of emptiness as he was forced to have persistent sex every da...

Megumi and Koji who have moved to an apartment in the suburbs. I was excited about the new life, but every morning I heard an abnormal pant voice coming from the neighbor. Although it is not going to endure, it goes to complain, but "couple carrying ...

University student Yusaku has no idea what he wants to do and spends his days drifting around. One day, on his way home after drinking, he bumps into a girl. Yusaku chases after her. He finds out that the girl has been in an argument with a yakuza-li...

Inside the train during the morning rush. Also on board are Genta, an old man whose hobby is molestation, his partner Tatsuo, and Ken, a thug who lures women into extorting money in exchange for molestation. Today's prey for Genta and Tatsuo is Kumi,...

Takashi works at a gay bar in Shinjuku but his boyfriend Yuichi is often away working on a cargo ship. Everything changes when new guy Norifumi Aida moves next door......

Kanae is a young wife who has sexual tendencies that she cannot tell her middle-aged husband. Meanwhile, her husband visits members-only happening bar with his manager, Sato, despite having problems at work. Masashi unknowingly makes Sato's favorite...

This faux-documentary follows a butoh master, a fashion designer, and a filmmaker racing against time to create art and help a young girl in love....

Hiro travels around the country playing the ukulele on the streets. A road movie depicting his interactions with various gay people he meets on his travels....

Masaya, an individual FX trader, goes bankrupt due to the stock market crash and returns home. Masaya was trying to rely on his grandfather, who owns a lot of real estate in the region, but his grandfather, whom he met for the first time in years, wa...

Kenji, the young head of Kato yakuza organisation, just got out of the jail. He comes home and founds out the opposing Sawaki yakuza is invading Kato's territory. Sawaki recruited Ikeyama and asked him to kill Kenji, but Ikeyama was Kenji's lover who...