Shinji Imaoka Movies & Biography

UNDERWATER LOVE (2011)

Starring Sawa Masaki, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Fumio Moriya, Hiroshi Sato and Emi Nishimura. Directed by Shinji Imaoka.

Asuka, a woman in her thirties, works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki. But one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned to death when they were 17.

GHOST CAT ANZU (2024)

Starring Mirai Moriyama, Noa Gotô, Munetaka Aoki, Miwako Ichikawa, Keiichi Suzuki, Jon Allen, Jonah Bromley, David Goldstein, Shingo Mizusawa and Wataru Sawabe. Directed by Yôko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita.

UNDERWATER LOVE (2011)

Starring Sawa Masaki, Yoshirô Umezawa, Ai Narita, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Fumio Moriya, Hiroshi Sato and Emi Nishimura. Directed by Shinji Imaoka.

Asuka, a woman in her thirties, works in a lakeside fish factory. She’s about to be married to her boss, Taki. But one day, she encounters a kappa – a water sprite found in Japanese folklore – and learns that the creature is in fact the reborn form of Aoki, an old crush who’d drowned to death when they were 17.