Tetsuro Imai

Birth : , Tōkyō, Japan

Movies

AWAKE
Cinematography
Eiichi wanted to become a top shogi player and attended a shogi player training center run by the Japan Shogi Association. At the training center, he could not beat Riku, who is extremely talented in the game, and Eiichi eventually gave up on becoming a shogi player. To live a more normal life, he enrolled in a university. Because he spent most of his time playing shogi, he has a hard time adjusting to campus life. He does not have any friends at school. One day, Eiichi comes across an AI based shogi computer program. The computer program is more creative and stronger than he expected. This piques Eiichi interest in computer programming, specifically for shogi games. He visits an AI research club and meets senior student Isono. He learns about computer programming from Isono and makes a new goal for himself. Eicchi now wants to write a top shogi computer program. A few years later, Eiichi wins a computer shogi competition. He receives a request to play against Riku.
Break in the Clouds
Cinematography
Maika, a pregnant woman, is running along a farm road at night with nothing but her clothes on her back. Her beaten face is discolored, one eye is swollen, and she is bleeding from the edge of her mouth. The headlights of a car approaching from behind frightens Maika, and she loses her balance and falls. Just as she is about to get up, her cell phone rings. It's a call from Masayoshi, her abusive husband. Out of fear, Maika knocks the phone to the ground and breaks it. Slowly, she picks herself up and continues walking down the street at night. She arrives at a love hotel hidden in the suburbs of a provincial city.
Heaven's Rush
Cinematography
This short film follows Zenjiro Kurata (played by Daichi Yamaguchi), a hitman with a 100 million yen bounty, as he faces attack from various assassins.
The Samejima Incident
Cinematography
Every year, Nana Sasaki and her former classmates hold a reunion of their high school music club. This year, the reunion is being held online. However, one of them, Ayumi, doesn't show up. When the others voice their concern, Yuki and Suzu reluctantly tell them about the Samejima Incident, an urban legend which circulated on the internet 20 years earlier. Those who find the truth about it become cursed and die. As Nana and the others start to panic, the real horror begins.
Liar! Uncover the Truth
Director of Photography
Men and women gather together to find mates, Kana attends one such event that is imagined as a party, but nonetheless is designed to introduce men to women and women to men. The goal is for single people to find love, romance and marriage. She is approached by ten different men of different looks, personalities and backgrounds. There is a catch. Kana is tipped that nine of the ten men are not as they appear. Can she find the one true love?
Yassadaru Man
Cinematography
Kisaragi Hazime and Akahata Satomi, workers of Mihara City Hall in Hiroshima prefecture will try to recover the lost popularity of their official city mascot : Yassadaru Man and boost its image again.
Carpe Diem
Director of Photography
Provincial girl Yuko is tired of life and follows a fleeting encounter in the big city. A hotel room later, her supposed victim role changes into something unexpectedly new and Yuko realizes her true destiny.
Friends Games: The Movie
Cinematography
This is a continuation of Friends Games. Now the group of friends realises they have fallen into this game and they are in the second set of game, Kageguchi Sugoroku. Will Katagiri Yuichi find out who led them into this deceptive game between money and friends?
The Book Peddler
Cinematography
Suzume Akamatsu works at a library in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture. She delivers books by riding a bicycle. Through her work, Suzume grows as a person.
Conflict
Lighting Technician
Tendokai's Washio Kazuma, the underboss of Japan's largest crime syndicate, goes on the warpath when his blood brother and family turn up dead.
Conflict
Director of Photography
Tendokai's Washio Kazuma, the underboss of Japan's largest crime syndicate, goes on the warpath when his blood brother and family turn up dead.
Kaze no Tayori
Director of Photography
Kurumi suddenly gave up opening a cafe with her friend. She hears that her grandfather Takeshi collapsed and goes to visit him in her hometown of Sendai. Takeshi entrusts Kurumi to open a cafe which closed temporarily due to the earthquake, but Kurumi doesn't know what to do. Takeshi hopes Kurumi finds her own way to live. There's not much time left for Takeshi and Kurumi.
Breakthrough for Change
Director of Photography
Akira, Takeshi, Yasu, and Shun are a gang of four close friends, all of whom were core members of their high-school ekiden team. Although they were stars back in those days, having slacked up their efforts subsequently, their daily life is lackluster now that the age of forty is just around the corner. They talk at a favorite local tavern just like they used to after Akira comes home giving up his dream to become an actor. Thinking back, they have never accomplished anything but ekiden, and they have unknowingly acquired a tendency to run away from problems in life in general. The phrase they cannot help muttering to themselves is how brilliant they were in those days… Feeling dispirited, they think of participating in the Shimanto Dragon Ride. A challenge for the four men in their late thirties begins…
Deco-kei Trucker Anna
Cinematography
Anna is a farmer who rides a decorated truck. One day, her mother Kimiko, whom she had not heard from since she left to dig for buried gold five years ago, shows up. In contrast to the villagers' joy, Anna still resents her mother for abandoning her. A man calling himself Kitō shows up asking for Kimiko. The next day, Kimiko is nowhere to be found...
戦極 BLOODY AGENT
Cinematography
A team of martial arts and weapon masters, led by the revenge-seeking Aika, hunt down and destroy yakuza organizations in Japan. When they meet up with the Black Bullet organization, however, they may have met their match.
Ittsu: THE MOVIE 2
Director of Photography
A two-part film adaptation of the youth romantic comedy "Itsu", which depicts a man and woman with a one-way love affair by popular manga artist Kazuto Okada, starring Misaki Soejima, a popular gravure idol nicknamed "Komitsu." The second part. Sagami, who joined the movie club with the aim of her, has a frustrated feeling for her longing senior Yui, and although she is not good at scary things, she is selected as the leading role in a horror movie. Due to Sagami's reaction to Yui's panchira scene as the heroine, the shooting did not go well, and he escaped to the extra as the zombie, and the movie production was interrupted. As the filming funds run out, the movie club implements a secret plan to secure extras ... Komei, who is popular as a zombie idol, appears in the role of Yoshiko, a girl with glasses who is in love with Sagami.
Ittsu: THE MOVIE
Director of Photography
The first part of the two-part "Itsu The Movie", a movie adaptation of the youth love comedy comic by Kazuto Okada, a popular manga artist known for "Sundome," starring Misaki Soejima, a popular gravure idol. Sagami, a junior high school student who is about to take the high school exam, encounters a beautiful girl when she visits the school of her choice and is fascinated. Sagami, who miraculously flickers in her skirt with a mobile camera, works hard to study and pass the exam, dreaming of going to the same high school as her, despite feeling guilty. However, Sagami, who accidentally entered the women's changing room as soon as she entered the school, tried to leave the place before anyone could see it, but she was witnessed by her longing for the scene.
こっくりさん 劇場版 新都市伝説
Director of Photography
High school student Mari and her classmate Saki love to do fortune-telling "Angel Sama". Then, members who participate in the love fortune-telling "Angel Sama" have accidents.
Shinokubo Story
Director of Photography
Chaejin works as a tour guide in Shin-Okubo while nurturing showbiz dreams. Meanwhile, talent agent Utako tries to think of ways to promote idols Gun Woo and JunQ, new arrivals from South Korea.
Yankee Teacher
Cinematography
"Tsukigaoka Gakuen" is a collection of inferior boycotts, fights, and bullying. One teacher, Mizuki Okochi, came to the cave of the problem children. A long time ago, Mizuki, who was scared of "Minagaroshi's red-flying feathers" and the bad guys, challenged the students who were fighting the fight with Taiman's education that was full of body, but the principal and the daughter of the PTA chairman Ayumi's black I am involved in a plot... Rina Kato wipes out the image so far and rampages!
Strip Mahjong: Battle Royale
Director of Photography
Let the ultimate sexy death games begin! A handful of mysterious Japanese women take part in a deranged web show that makes them strip off their clothes when they lose a round of Mahjong. When there is nothing left to hide, the losers secrets are revealed and the nubile contestants must take their punishment. Can anyone survive, or keep their clothes on, in the dangerous game of STRIP MAHJONG: BATTLE ROYALE? Gleefully adding a risqué, wry twist to an ancient game of strategy, this erotic thriller delivers voyeuristic thrills with the friskiness of Seventies sexploitation flicks, providing strange gameplay at every turn!
Femmes Fatales
Lighting Technician
Three tales of jealousy, greed and lust about the most heinous crimes committed in Japan by women.
Femmes Fatales
Director of Photography
Three tales of jealousy, greed and lust about the most heinous crimes committed in Japan by women.
High School Wars: Drift or Die!
Director of Photography
Rofu High School is divided between three rival gangs. While Toshi (Nagayama Takashi) is known as the leader of the weakest faction of the bunch, he is actually a skilled street racer as well. In order to defend his friends and preserve their friendship, he takes on two rival gangs in a final showdown.
High School Wars: Throwdown!
Director of Photography
At Asuka Nishi High School the mantra is survival of the fittest. The leaders of rival classes constantly fight for school territory supremacy. When a mysterious newcomer, Saeki, tips the balance of power at Asuka High, the biggest all out war in school history is lurking in the shadows. Get ready for hot-blooded street fights and high-octane drift battles!
Runner Zero
Director of Photography
To be recognized as the best, the inexperienced street racer Kazuki will need the help of a former champion and his trusted Mazda RX-7 to take on the field in this burner of high-octane Tokyo street races.
Crazy Pornographers
Director of Photography
Kenta Arai is well on the path to become a social elite - prestigious diploma, promising job at a national bank. But a freak incident leads him down the path to become a porn actor!