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

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

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