Direction: Shinya Tsukamoto
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Vital
2004 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Tadanobu Asano · Nami Tsukamoto · Kiki · Kazuyoshi Kushida
Plot After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a book about...
6.5
212 votes
6.5
212 votes
A Snake of June
2002 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Asuka Kurosawa · Yuji Kotari · Shinya Tsukamoto · Mansaku Fuwa
Plot Rinko Tatsumi is a quiet, reserved woman in her mid-thirties. She works as a capable and respected phone counselor at an emergency phone line at the county mental health center....
6.5
359 votes
6.5
359 votes
Tokyo Fist
1995 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Kaori Fujii · Shinya Tsukamoto · Kôji Tsukamoto · Naoto Takenaka
Plot 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...
6.4
221 votes
6.4
221 votes
Bullet Ballet
1998 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Shinya Tsukamoto · Hisashi Igawa · Sujin Kim · Tatsuya Nakamura
Plot A man sees his life changed for ever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself...
6.3
348 votes
6.3
348 votes
Gemini
1999 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Masahiro Motoki · Ryo · Yasutaka Tsutsui · Shiho Fujimura
Plot 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...
6.2
161 votes
6.2
161 votes
Killing
2018 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Yû Aoi · Ryusei Maeda · Shinya Tsukamoto
Plot Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are...
6.0
81 votes
6.0
81 votes
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1989 · Movie · 67 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Tomorô Taguchi · Kei Fujiwara · Nobu Kanaoka · Renji Ishibashi
Plot A man is experiencing problems with metal showing up and protruding from his body. Apparently he got a piece of metal in his head when he was hit by a...
5.9
3K votes
5.9
3K votes
Kotoko
2011 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Cocco · Shinya Tsukamoto
Plot It is the story of a mother who suffers from double vision. She sees a person splitting into two…a negative person and a positive person. Because of this, she never...
5.9
180 votes
5.9
180 votes
Fires on the Plain
2014 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Shinya Tsukamoto · Yûko Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakamura · Lily Franky
Plot A gore sequel from the Kon Ichikawa 1959 film.
5.9
102 votes
5.9
102 votes
Haze
2005 · Movie · 50 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Shinya Tsukamoto · Kaori Fujii · Takahiro Kandaka · Takahiro Murase
Plot A man wakes up to find himself locked in a tiny, cramped concrete room, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there and where he...
5.8
331 votes
5.8
331 votes
Nightmare Detective 2
2008 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Yui Miura
Plot Kyoichi Kagenuma, the Nightmare Detective, is back. Still plagued by his unwanted abilities – abilities that allow him to read thoughts and enter other people’s dreams – and still debating...
5.6
48 votes
5.6
48 votes
The Phantom of Regular Size (S)
1986 · Movie · 19 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Kei Fujiwara · Nobu Kanaoka · Tomorô Taguchi · Shinya Tsukamoto
5.5
84 votes
5.5
84 votes
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013 · Documentary · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat
Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido
Plot 70 short movies about cinema and its future.
5.4
74 votes
5.4
74 votes
Hiruko the Goblin
1991 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Kenji Sawada · Masaki Kudou · Hideo Murota · Naoto Takenaka
Plot A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a...
5.3
85 votes
5.3
85 votes
Female
2005 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto · Ryuichi Hiroki · Suzuki Matsuo · Miwa Nishikawa
Cast Kyoko Hasegawa · Eri Ishida · Mitsuko Ishii · Eri Nomura
Plot Five short films adapted from five novels by female authors starring five significant actresses: Taiyô no Mieru Basho Made (Directed by Ryuichi Hiroki), Yoru no Shitasaki (Directed by Suzuki Matsuo),...
5.2
31 votes
5.2
31 votes
The Great Analog World
1987 · Movie · 47 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Shinya Tsukamoto · Kei Fujiwara · Nobu Kanaoka · Tomorô Taguchi
Plot Denchu Kozo, an odd boy with an electric pole sticking out of his back, is bullied by his schoolmates. One day, after he is saved by the girl Momo from...
5.2
64 votes
5.2
64 votes
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
1992 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Tomorô Taguchi · Iwata · Nobu Kanaoka · Keinosuke Tomioka
Plot Sequel to "Tetsuo" this time has the Iron Man transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to...
5.0
565 votes
5.0
565 votes
Tetsuo 3
2009 · Movie · 79 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Eric Bossick · Shinya Tsukamoto · Akiko Monou · Yûko Nakamura
4.7
236 votes
4.7
236 votes
Nightmare Detective
2006 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Hitomi · Masanobu Ando · Ren Osugi
Plot A competent detective, Keiko Kirishima, encounters two mysterious suicides. Somehow the two incidents seem to be connected since the victims dialled the same number '0' with their cellphones just before...
4.6
289 votes
4.6
289 votes
Jeonju Digital Project 2005
2005 · Movie · 130 min. · South Korea
Direction Apichatpong Weerasethakul · Song Il-gon · Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Pimpaka Towira · Takahiro Kandaka · Shinya Tsukamoto · Takahiro Murase
—
Not rated
—
Not rated