The film is divided into two chapters, "First Love" and "Endless Love", in which the author, Yoko Oguchi, chases after a different man, each saying "I love you! and chases after another man. In the second chapter, she screams in public, has sex with a man, shaves her hair and gets (really) yelled...
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 visited just prior to dying. In Kochi,...
A man (Masahiro Sugiyama), an idol otaku, picks up a monster fish and starts to raise it at home. At the same time, he moves in with a runaway girl (Yoko Oguchi), and the friction between them becomes more intense. The film was made at the end of the eighties, in response to the sense of...
8mm film by Yoko Oguchi, 2013. Yamada (Sato Taketo) falls in love in first sight with a girl named Maki (Shimano Hozo) sitting on the side of the road. However, Maki is a rather eccentric individual who acts in accordance with orders picked up by her brain. Paying no heed to the warnings of a...
Don’t Dare to Stop Love follows the conflicted and delusional life of a single mother and cancer victim. An abstract exploration of her relationships with both her young lover and teenage daughter, the film shows us the tortures of a self-indulgent mind. In a plea for affection, she devotes the...
This is the director's first diary film, drawn in collaboration with a diverse cast and manga artist Yumi Enomoto. It is a serious self-documentary work with a comedic touch. The music is by composer Kotaro Watabiki, the end song is by Haruka Doi, and the guitar is by Yumiko Yoshimoto. It won the...
My Favourite Grassy Plain. Oguchi Yoko belongs to that special category of film makers for whom life, work, documentary and fiction are basically one and the same thing. She is her film, her films are her. There is one significant theme that keeps returning, her masochistic tendencies. Here she...
Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly intense...
The films of Oguchi Yoko are extremely personal. In addition, Oguchi herself has a special personality that makes her films very special. She is an outspoken masochist and experiments in life and work with her sexual proclivities. She can get surprised about what people think is normal in the field...
Oppressive mixture of diary and (sexual) fantasy. The film maker also literally bares herself when she repeatedly stands in a corridor waiting for the inevitable. She is fascinated by the true story of a sadistic kidnapper, whom she links with her own Prince Charming. Sadomasochism without whips....
