Shinji Imaoka

Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1965, Osaka, Japan
Movies: 106

Shinji Imaoka a.k.a. 羅門ナカ is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of a group of pink film directors of the 2000s known collectively as the "Seven Lucky Gods of Pink" (ピンク七福神, shichifukujin), which besides Imaoka, also includes Toshiya Ueno, Mitsuru Meike, Yūji Tajiri, Yoshitaka Kamada, Toshirō Enomoto and Rei Sakamoto.

Best-Known Movies

6.9

Ghost Cat Anzu

2024

5.1

Underwater Love

2011

7.0

A Girl on the Shore

2021

6.4

Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete

2002

4.5

Lunchbox

2004

6.1

The Drudgery Train

2012

5.0

Love − Zero = Infinity

1994

4.7

Uncle's Paradise

2006

6.9

La La La at Rock Bottom

2015

5.7

Turtle Vision

1991

Filmography

2025	The Alien Next Door
2023	One Way Love	Kenichi
2021	A Girl on the Shore	Mitsuru Sato
2017	Sweating the Small Stuff
2016	Autumn
2015	La La La at Rock Bottom	Hospital Director Fujita
2014	The End of the World and the Cat's Disappearance
2005	Look of Love	Tokui
2003	Voluptuous Beauty: Wanna Do It Desperately!	Member of Isana-kai
2002	The Lost Virgin	Koichi Maeda
1999	New Apartment Complex Wife: Adultery is a Taste of Honey	Rapist
1994	Love − Zero = Infinity	TV Reporter
1991	Turtle Vision	Groper

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Grim Reaper Barber	Director
2026	Kagi	Director, Screenplay
2025	The Alien Next Door	Writer
2025	Midsummer Fruit	Director
2024	Shinpei	Producer
2024	Ghost Cat Anzu	Screenplay
2024	Shape of My Heart	Director, Screenplay
2023	Two on the Road	Director, Writer
2023	Is This Heaven?	Director
2023	Seaside Lover	Director
2023	One Way Love	Director
2023	Twilight Cinema Blues	Screenplay
2022	Manami 100%	Screenplay
2022	Kandagawa no Futari	Director
2022	Far Away, Further Away	Director
2022	Aitakute Aitakute Aitakute	Director, Writer
2022	With Love from Koshu Highway	Director
2022	Two Maladroits in Life: A Love Story	Screenplay
2021	Mayonaka no Otome tachi	Director, Screenplay
2021	A Rainbow-colored Trip	Director
2021	Aoi-chan Won't Let Me Do It	Director, Screenplay
2021	The Farmer's Bride Requires Care! Part 1: Angel Descends	Director, Screenplay
2021	The Farmer's Bride Requires Care! Part 2: The Organic Grand Strategy	Director
2020	Reiko and the Dolphin	Director
2019	Let Me Hear Your Voice	Screenplay, Director
2018	Cute Devil	Writer
2018	Odd Final	Director, Screenplay
2018	Half End	Director
2018	Yamikin gurentai	Director
2017	Deep Story	Director, Screenplay
2017	Boys Hitting the Road	Director
2017	Long Goodbye: Tantei Furui Kurinosuke	Director
2017	Tsuchinoko: The Comedy	Director
2016	The Woman of Brother	Writer
2016	Waiting for You	Director
2016	The Temptation Came at Stormy Night	Writer, Director
2016	Hana-Dama: Phantom	Screenplay
2015	Kaerenai san'nin: Kaikan wa owaranai	Director
2014	Girls in the Psychic Club	Screenplay
2014	Summer When My Wife Was in Love	Director, Screenplay
2014	Unlucky Woman's Blues	Director
2014	Hana-Dama	Screenplay
2013	Hoshi's Long Day	Director
2012	Love Me for Hundreds of Years	Screenplay
2012	Setsuna: Vampire's Love of 100 Days	Screenplay, Director
2012	The Drudgery Train	Screenplay
2011	Derailed Addiction	Screenplay
2011	Youth H2 "The sorrow of yonger Lotte"	Director, Screenplay
2011	Underwater Love	Director, Writer
2010	I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada	Director, Screenplay
2010	Married Nurse - Soft Skin Dedication	Screenplay, Director
2010	Married Nurse, Three days and nights of love	Director
2010	Ghost kiss	Director
2010	Chichiri	Director
2009	Daydream	Director
2009	Isaac	Director
2008	The Tender Throbbing Twilight	Director
2006	Uncle's Paradise	Director
2006	Little Sister Ayaka	Director, Screenplay
2005	Frog Song	Director, Screenplay
2004	Lunchbox	Director, Screenplay
2003	Little Sister: Young Sexual Urges	Director, Screenplay
2002	The Temptation of the Rear Window: The Alluring Scent of a Married Woman	Director
2002	The Lost Virgin	Screenplay
2002	Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete	Screenplay
2002	Female Teacher: Get Wet and Teach Me	Director
2001	New Bus Guide's Sweaty Tour of Secret Places	Director, Screenplay
2001	Empty Room	Screenplay
2001	Newly Appointed Female Teacher: Past Exposed	Writer
2001	High School Female Teacher: Defiled Sex	Director, Screenplay
2001	Nureru bijin tsuma hamerareta on'na	Director
2001	Psycho Doctor	Screenplay
2000	My Beloved Wife: A Summer Fling	Director, Screenplay
2000	OL sei-hakusho kusare-en	Director, Screenplay
1999	True Story: Kidnapping and Rape in Roppongi	Director, Screenplay
1999	Despite All That	Director, Screenplay
1999	Sex Friend Nurezakari	Screenplay
1999	Lustful Wife	Director, Screenplay
1999	Married Female Teacher: A Mature After-School Life	Director, Screenplay
1999	Forbidden Fruit 3: The Invitation to Incest	Screenplay
1998	Demeking	Director, Screenplay
1998	Female Body Collection: Stewardess Risa	Director
1998	Tomato Report 3: The Aphrodisiac of Temptation	Director
1998	Bottled Vulva: High School Girl Yuriko	Director
1998	Bottled Vulva: Bank Teller Noriko	Director, Screenplay
1998	Female Body Collection: High School Girl Mina	Director
1998	Dog Woman First Cage: Yumiko	Director
1998	Female Body Collection: Female Teacher Mika	Director
1998	Bottled Vulva: Kindergarten Teacher Kyoko	Director
1998	Dog Woman Second Cage: Etsuko	Director
1996	The Wart	Director, Screenplay
1995	Waiting for the Comet	Director, Screenplay
1987	Sweaty Destroyer	Director, Writer

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