Shinya Tsukamoto
Birthday: 1960-01-01
Place of Birth: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.
Movies
Bullet Ballet
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a...
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Haze
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to m...
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A Snake of June
A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of ...
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Ichi the Killer
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a re...
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into ...
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Tokyo Fist
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a se...
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Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug
A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted ...
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Nightmare Detective
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is calle...
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the y...
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is k...
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The Perfect Education
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that h...
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Marebito
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that h...
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The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
A teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back and is soon forced to battle cyborg v...
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo....
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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring appe...
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The J-Horror Virus
How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in th...
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Kotoko
Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifyi...
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Basic Tsukamoto
Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and whe...
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The Phantom of Regular Size
A short film where Shinya Tsukamoto experimented with effects and ideas, which eventually resulted i...
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A Drowning Man
Tokio finds his wife Kumiko drowned in the bathtub one night. He lifts the telephone handset to call...
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Chloe
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life i...
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Wings
Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1975 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Te...
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Genshi-san
A giant prehistoric man destroys some cities. Early Super-8 Tsukamoto short film. Loosely based on a...
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Shinya Tsukamoto Commentary "Fires on the Plain" 20 Year Journey
Shinya Tsukamoto recalls the development of his adaptation of 'Fires on the Plain' by Shohei Ooka...
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Scoop!
Shizuoka Miyakonojo is a middle-aged paparazzi photographer. His skills as a cameraman are good, but...
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Shin Kamen Rider
A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, ...
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119
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearl...
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Kurosawa's Way
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surpri...
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Fires on the Plain
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from...
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Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, ori...
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Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
A documentary that explores the Metal Gear Solid game series with many interviews with game develope...
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Tokyo Fair Weather
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photograp...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter n...
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Atlanta Boogie
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokoha...
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Quartet for Two
Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him o...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing th...
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House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
Ghostly horror film based on the original story by horror manga artist Kanako Inuki, adapted from va...
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Tracing Jake
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in man...
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysteri...
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The Road Less Travelled
Kazunari Katsuki (Gaku Sano) lied to his classmate that Tokyo stinks. Because of his comment, he goe...
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Showa Kayo Musical Mata Au Hi Made
Isono Sae is an office lady in Showa 63 (1988), who has difficulty living during the economic bubble...
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Sunday Drive
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a stat...
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Dogs
A tough woman is dragging a weaker man deeper and deeper into crime. Woman cop Miki is chasing a wan...
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Wait and See
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his tr...
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Shin Godzilla
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scra...
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Silence
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their men...
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Over the Fence
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college...
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Otakus in Love
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay....
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Some Kinda Love
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are ...
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Travail
Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both ar...
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Killing
In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One da...
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Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, pers...
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Making of Gemini
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini"....
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazin...
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Japanese Cinema's Provocateur Extraordinaire: Shinya Tsukamoto
Career spanning interview up to 2020....
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hou...
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Sunday's Dream
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same compa...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protect...
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The Brightest Sun
When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investi...
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In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstr...
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Hero's Island
Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger br...
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