Hiroyuki Oki

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 Festival. Moved to Kochi City in 1991, and in 1992 directed the Jurgen Brunning production "Tarch Trip" ("Tachi torippu" 1993). Directed his first 35mm fiction film "I Like You, I Like You Very Much" in 1994. In 1996 his "Heaven-6-Box", a production of the Kochi Musuem of Art, won the NETPAC Prize at the 1995 Berlin International Film Festival. Recently he has been involved in performing live music at screenings of his work. (www.yidff.jp)

The Family Complete (2010)

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!  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kôichi Imaizumi
CAST:  Kôichi Imaizumi  •  Kiyomi Itō  •  Hotaru  •  Jinta Fujimaru

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!  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kôichi Imaizumi
CAST:  Kôichi Imaizumi  •  Kiyomi Itō  •  Hotaru  •  Jinta Fujimaru

Looking for an Angel (1999)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akihiro Suzuki
CAST:  Kôichi Imaizumi  •  Akira Suehiro  •  Hotaru Hazuki  •  Kuroiwa Akira

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akihiro Suzuki
CAST:  Kôichi Imaizumi  •  Akira Suehiro  •  Hotaru Hazuki  •  Kuroiwa Akira

Swimming Prohibited (1989)

The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary job and continues in the outer suburbs of Osaka. A short silent film that Oki made in 1988 is included as a ...  (more)

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The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary job and continues in the outer suburbs of Osaka. A short silent film that Oki made in 1988 is included as a ...  (more)

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Melody for Buddy Matsumae (1993)

Chronicles ten days spent at a seaside town; five of them with a visiting boyfriend, and five more after the boyfriend's departure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
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Chronicles ten days spent at a seaside town; five of them with a visiting boyfriend, and five more after the boyfriend's departure.  (more)

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Tarch Trip (1994)

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like 'urban view from the artist's studio'. The film is largely set in the film-maker's home and the street in the provincial town of Aichi where he lives. Minor everyday incidents are ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Masashi Mori  •  Tadayuki Kataoka  •  Hiroyuki Oki  •  Masamitsu Yamatsu

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like 'urban view from the artist's studio'. The film is largely set in the film-maker's home and the street in the provincial town of Aichi where he lives. Minor everyday incidents are ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Masashi Mori  •  Tadayuki Kataoka  •  Hiroyuki Oki  •  Masamitsu Yamatsu

I Like You, I Like You Very Much (1994)

Japanese student You throws his relationship with boyfriend Shin into jeopardy when he begins an affair with an attractive man he meets at a train station. You attempts to come clean with his secret, but ending the affair proves too difficult. As a complicated and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Kazunori Shibuya  •  CHANO  •  Taka Nishimoto  •  Yoko Yamamoto

Japanese student You throws his relationship with boyfriend Shin into jeopardy when he begins an affair with an attractive man he meets at a train station. You attempts to come clean with his secret, but ending the affair proves too difficult. As a complicated and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Kazunori Shibuya  •  CHANO  •  Taka Nishimoto  •  Yoko Yamamoto

Tears of Ecstasy (1995)

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Hotaru Hazuki  •  Kiyomi Itō  •  Tomoki Taguchi  •  Masayuki Yonaha

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.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Hotaru Hazuki  •  Kiyomi Itō  •  Tomoki Taguchi  •  Masayuki Yonaha

Heaven-6-Box (1996)

Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan's foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute chapters (or 'boxes') which, says Oki, add up to ...  (more)

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Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan's foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute chapters (or 'boxes') which, says Oki, add up to ...  (more)

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Tama asobi (1996)

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, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Yasuhiro Hashiguchi  •  Masakuni Ishibashi  •  Yasuhisa Kiyooka  •  Hotaru Hazuki

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, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Yasuhiro Hashiguchi  •  Masakuni Ishibashi  •  Yasuhisa Kiyooka  •  Hotaru Hazuki

Inside the Mind (1999)

Oki fuses documentary elements with narrative filmmaking to such a point that it's difficult to distinguish one from the other. The film is both the story of two men falling in love with each other on a beach, and a faithful document to the filmmaking process. In ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Kimihiko Abe  •  Itsuhaku Kawamura

Oki fuses documentary elements with narrative filmmaking to such a point that it's difficult to distinguish one from the other. The film is both the story of two men falling in love with each other on a beach, and a faithful document to the filmmaking process. In ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
CAST:  Kimihiko Abe  •  Itsuhaku Kawamura

Color Eyes (1992)

This film consists of several portraits of boys, sometimes alone - in an interior, in front of a window, other times in a group, three dancers on a roof - or even as a couple, kissing, hugging. These scenes are intertwined with each other, supporting a waking dream ...  (more)

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This film consists of several portraits of boys, sometimes alone - in an interior, in front of a window, other times in a group, three dancers on a roof - or even as a couple, kissing, hugging. These scenes are intertwined with each other, supporting a waking dream ...  (more)

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Shujinkou (1991)

Short film by Hiroyuki Oki.  (more)

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Short film by Hiroyuki Oki.  (more)

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The Traveling Schoolroom (1986)

Oki Hiroyuki's First Film shot at a mountain lodge. "The film was simply a series of landscape shots, without a story." (Oki Hiroyuki).  (more)

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Oki Hiroyuki's First Film shot at a mountain lodge. "The film was simply a series of landscape shots, without a story." (Oki Hiroyuki).  (more)

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Yusho-Renaissance (1999)

The work of Japanese experimental filmmaker Hiroyuki Oki as been described as "queer ambient film," and this work brings his fascination with dream-like images and manipulation of time through editing to a new level. Yusho-Renaissance follows an artist and his ...  (more)

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The work of Japanese experimental filmmaker Hiroyuki Oki as been described as "queer ambient film," and this work brings his fascination with dream-like images and manipulation of time through editing to a new level. Yusho-Renaissance follows an artist and his ...  (more)

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Toshi Shi (2020)

This work by Hiroyuki Oki was originally conceived as an installation with four beamers projecting different video fragments in a particular order. Here, rhythmical multiscreen editing and poetic voiceover create a multidimensional elegiac space riddled with people ...  (more)

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This work by Hiroyuki Oki was originally conceived as an installation with four beamers projecting different video fragments in a particular order. Here, rhythmical multiscreen editing and poetic voiceover create a multidimensional elegiac space riddled with people ...  (more)

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Buddy Matsumae (1989)

The establishment of Hiroyuki Ohki's Matsumae-Kun's film is an inversion of the relationship between reality and image, as opposed to a documentary, in which something is happening in reality and the filmmaker goes there to make images of it, or story film, in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroyuki Oki
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The establishment of Hiroyuki Ohki's Matsumae-Kun's film is an inversion of the relationship between reality and image, as opposed to a documentary, in which something is happening in reality and the filmmaker goes there to make images of it, or story film, in ...  (more)

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The Letter (1991)

"I sobbed today..." This bizarre monologue is followed by a dialogue with a unique tempo. Then, fragments of daily life are written on the screen in an unhurried manner. When the dialogue and the screen are fused together, there is an exquisite sense of mismatch, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsutoshi Sabu
CAST:  Kaji Hideki  •  Awamoto Wakako  •  Hiroyuki Oki  •  Katsutoshi Sabu

"I sobbed today..." This bizarre monologue is followed by a dialogue with a unique tempo. Then, fragments of daily life are written on the screen in an unhurried manner. When the dialogue and the screen are fused together, there is an exquisite sense of mismatch, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsutoshi Sabu
CAST:  Kaji Hideki  •  Awamoto Wakako  •  Hiroyuki Oki  •  Katsutoshi Sabu

Creation Of A Single Powder Painting (2013)

8mm short shot in Kochi Prefecture by Hiroyuki Oki.  (more)

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8mm short shot in Kochi Prefecture by Hiroyuki Oki.  (more)

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3+1 (1997)

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