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Shinya Tsukamoto
Writer 66 years old

Shinya Tsukamoto

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.

Filmography

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15 titles
Hokage

Hokage

Shinya Tsukamoto 2023 1h 35m

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

Nobi

Nobi

Shinya Tsukamoto 2015 1h 27m 6.0

A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.

Kotoko

Kotoko

Shinya Tsukamoto 2011 1h 31m 8.5

When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

Shinya Tsukamoto 2009 1h 11m 5.8

An American named Anthony is living and working in Tokyo and married to a Japanese woman. When their son is killed by the same driver who creates the Tetsuos in previous films, he makes the transformation into Tetsuo.

Akumu Tantei 2

Akumu Tantei 2

Shinya Tsukamoto 2008 1h 42m 6.0

AKUMA TANTEI 2 is all about unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated. It is as much a true horror film as it is a psychological drama.

Akumu tantei

Akumu tantei

Shinya Tsukamoto 2006 1h 45m 7.5

Three lonely individuals in Tokyo contemplate suicide, their lives intertwining through surreal dreams and nightmares until a shocking event changes everything.

Haze

Haze

Shinya Tsukamoto 2005 49m

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he's there, or why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom.

Vital

Vital

Shinya Tsukamoto 2004 1h 26m 8.0

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Rokugatsu no hebi

Rokugatsu no hebi

Shinya Tsukamoto 2002 1h 17m 8.0

A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything.

Sôseiji

Sôseiji

Shinya Tsukamoto 1999 1h 24m 7.3

A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.

Bullet Ballet

Bullet Ballet

Shinya Tsukamoto 1998 1h 27m 8.2

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Tokyo Fist

Tokyo Fist

Shinya Tsukamoto 1995 1h 27m 8.3

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

Shinya Tsukamoto 1992 1h 21m 5.3

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko

Yôkai hantâ: Hiruko

Shinya Tsukamoto 1991 1h 29m 5.0

A goblin is sent to Earth to behead students and turn their bodies into demons.

Tetsuo

Tetsuo

Shinya Tsukamoto 1989 1h 7m 7.9

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives.

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