Shoji Shimizu

Movies

The Muse
Cinematography
Takashima is a young struggling actor who wants to be a film director. The film follows his chance encounters and career highlights (and lowlights!) as he strives to reach the top, and details his attempt to create the perfect film.
Sexy Sisters of Sorrow
Director of Photography
Eiko has an unsatisfying marriage, and finds satisfaction in the arms of the younger Mitsuo. After a passionate spell between them, Eiko feels she can't keep living this way and breaks up with him. Two years later, Eiko’s younger sister, Yuiko is happily engaged to marry, and introduces her fiance to Eiko. The fiance is no other than Mitsuo. Mistuo and Eiko pretend to meet each other for the first time. Will they be able to keep living this lie? This romantic drama was shot beautifully by one of Japan's leading cinematographers, Shoji Shimizu.
Nice Guy Private Eye
Director of Photography
A married woman, Kazuyo, enlists the services of the private detective, Rokusuke, to see if her husband Norio is cheating. Kazuyo says whenever her husband cheats on her, he then comes home and has sex with Kazuyo, to hide it. However, since her husband broke up with his mistress, her own sex life has taken a big hit. In her frustration, she seduces detective Rokusuke. Soon after that, Norio starts cheating again - this time with another woman. The woman bears a striking resemblance to detective Rokusuke's wife. Now, he's faced with a difficult choice.
The Con Artist
Director of Photography
In a small village in the Japanese countryside, Jed the farmer and Biff the local cop are best friends who always compete over the hearts of the local women. One day, a mysteriously hot stranger comes to town and both of them fall for her. The plot thickens as they independently propose marriage to her, and she in turn agrees to both proposals! A comedy of errors from Japan’s most prolific Pink films director.
The Secret in the Attic
Director of Photography
A beautiful woman marries a wealthy man, who for years chose to be a bachelor inspite of numerous female suitors. At first the marriage is perfect; he’s a loving husband and an enthusiastic lover. But soon the romance cools and the wife discovers that it has to do with a secret kept in the attic, something – or someone – he visits every night, that is changing him from a loving husband into a stranger… Akira Fukamachi directs this erotic and atmospheric drama.
Educating Yuna
Director of Photography
Yuna is a shy and innocent college student. One day, she meets Professor Shibuya, a famous art critic and collector. Yuna is infatuated by his personality, and falls in love with him. Professor Shibuya invites Yuna to his countryside home, to help him organize his art collection. There, she meets Erika and Miho, an S&M queen and her mistress. Through them, Yuna is introduced to a new, unfamiliar and tantalizing world, which tests the boundaries of her acceptance.
Beautiful Blooming
Director of Photography
The third year of Keio. Picked up by Takamori Saigo, Hanjiro pledges his loyalty to him and joins an assassination group led by Kidaro. One day, Hanjiro was taken aback by a man he met on the street, and since then, the man's presence has never left his mind.
The Night of the Earthquake
Director of Photography
Mari and Yasuo are getting "fresh" with each other at the garbage dump when Mari unveils that she knows the whereabouts of a safe holding $100,000. After some convincing, Mari gets Yasuo to help her with the robbery. What these two sexually charged criminals don't know is that Kawada, a sadistic accountant for his gang, is also after the cash, and will stop at nothing to get it. During the night of the robbery, Katsuhiro, the manager of the warehouse in which all of this takes place, checks in the office only to find his co-worker and lover Keiko all tied up by the hands of Mari. Kawada arrives soon after, and as he's about to gut Yasuo like a fish, a massive earthquake shakes the whole city, and everyone is trapped inside. Kawada takes over and maniacly ties everyone up and carries out his savage sexual fantasies.
I Thought About You 2: Beasts That Are Too Kind
Director of Photography
Years have passed since the first film. Goro never got over the death of his partner and continues to drown his misery in alcohol. His latest work as a private detective involves spying on a man suspected of adultery by his wife. She happens to be right, but he's cheating on her with a male university student and not another woman. When that student turns up dead shortly after Goro delivers his results, he is initially indifferent. But then he's absudcted and beaten to within an inch of his life by people who clearly want to ensure his silence, and that changes things. Turns out, his past once again comes back to haunt him.
Midnight Stalker
Director of Photography
Natsuki is a blind woman whose best friend Yoko gets killed by a stalker Mizuno. Oddly enough, she is at the scene of the crime and is the only witness, although she has not seen the killer. In order to cover his own tracks, the killer begins stalking her with the intent of killing her...
Geinô Ura Jôji: Juku Niku no Kanshoku
Director of Photography
Human Livestock
Director of Photography
Tamie’s husband Shuhei is a famous novelist. However he mysteriously disappeared after WWII. One day, his old friend Mikuni shows up to Tamie’s house. He accuses Tamie of killing him. Mikuni shows her proof, in the form of a letter the novelist wrote before he disappeared. However, the truth is much more twisted than he could imagine... This period film, set in post-WWII Japan, is truly one of the more bizarre and twisted Pink Films you'll ever see.
Me and Daddy
Director of Photography
Naoya has just started working and living on his own. He has never dated a girl, and he's never been in love. Naoya's father is a very busy and talented editor. One day, Naoya happens to see his father in the city. His father kisses the man he was waiting for and disappears into the hotel district. Naoya is shocked to find out that his father is gay...
Horny Couple: Wants to Sip
Director of Photography
Hitomi ran down to a local city with her affair partner Suzuki. Daisuke, a regular customer of the soba shop where she got to work, fell in love with a bedridden wife, Sayoko, who looked a lot like her when she was young, and eventually regained her feelings of love for her wife. The relationship between Daisuke's son and his wife, Koichi, and Sanae has recently become jerky, and Sanae has finally left home. On the other hand, Hitomi is shocked to find out that Suzuki has a photo of his wife and children.
Sexy S.W.A.T. Team
Director of Photography
Red alert! A crime wave of women groping perverts has flooded the Tokyo train system and only a special all-female, undercover police task force can stop it! The common clue is that all of the victims see a strobing red light before they find themselves on the receiving end of public, sexual humiliation! Asses will be grabbed! Breasts will be kneaded! And crotches will be sniffed! All in the course of duty, for the Sexy SWAT Team!
Twilight Dinner
Lighting Technician
A pale-looking man, Kazuhiko, is being questioned by the police following the extremely bloody murder of a young woman. He begins his story with the day that two sisters, Akiko and Mayuko, moved into the house across from his. After helping the pair move in, he starts talking with the younger sister, and soon they become intimate. The relationship continues for a while, but one day the sisters suddenly pack up and disappear, but not before sharing their secret with Kazuhiko. What kind of secret could have caused him to commit such a murder? Or did he?
Twilight Dinner
Director of Photography
A pale-looking man, Kazuhiko, is being questioned by the police following the extremely bloody murder of a young woman. He begins his story with the day that two sisters, Akiko and Mayuko, moved into the house across from his. After helping the pair move in, he starts talking with the younger sister, and soon they become intimate. The relationship continues for a while, but one day the sisters suddenly pack up and disappear, but not before sharing their secret with Kazuhiko. What kind of secret could have caused him to commit such a murder? Or did he?
Gift
Cinematography
A man named Suneo appears in front of Yoshiro, claiming to expose the past of his lover Nishimura. Yoshiro is curious about Suneo, and approaches him... A drama with a touch of suspense, where friendship and love swirl around.
Aiyoku Shûdôin: Jukujo, Chijo, Seijo
Director of Photography
Shiki Jôkyô Nikki: Chôinran
Director of Photography
Ippei, a private detective, was suddenly involved in a strange incident at the request of Nao. He was guided by Nao and went on a trip to the hot spring town with his assistant, Santa, but when Nao's best friend and landlady Harumi had a seizure for some reason, he was in agony in search of a man.