Shigeo Katsuyama

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Man on bicycle

The story of two men, one middle aged one mid twenties, who make friends and exchange cigarettes and stories of their sex lives, unaware they have unwittingly exchanged partners. The story, told in flashbacks, as the two men travel through the night on a motorcycle, is loaded with highly charged eroticism. Sex and violence are juxtaposed against the drabness of the men's everyday lives, effectively blurring the line between what is real and what is fantasy. Founded on the well-known myth of furtive sexual gropers on the rush-hour Tokyo commuter trains, Tandem is a low-key masterpiece of Japanese Pink Cinema.

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

The Mu Empire lies deep beneath the sea near Infant Island. Mew I won the ceremony to become queen in a national sport similar to sumo, but was betrayed by a rival and banished. She was saved by the Imperial Japanese Navy's all-purpose battleship "Gokango" commanded by Colonel Kinkakuji, who set out to destroy the Mu Empire. Omanda, the guardian deity of the Mu Empire, fights back!

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Passerby hit by Queen June

Three sketches each from a different director: (1) a dancer who is attracted to lesbians; (2) a call girl who is accosted by a cruel man; (3) a male transvestite - the hentai of the title - exposed at a sunny place.

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

As a newspaper reporter listens to the confession of a wife who murdered her husband, the film shockingly depicts the process by which she discovers why she killed her husband, why she started working on street corners, and how she became deeply immersed in an affair that began as prostitution to relieve boredom...

Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • as Factory worker

Junichi is a drug dealer who has no place in society and wanders the streets. The only thing that makes him feel alive is running and sex. Kumiko is raped by the misanthropic Junichi, but for some reason she is attracted to him and falls in love with him. However, after being chased by the detectives, Junichi disappears from Kumiko's life and starts working at a factory in the town where she washed up...