Screenplay: Macoto Tezuka
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Macoto Tezuka. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
1985 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Shingo Kubota · Kan Takagi · Kyôko Togawa · Issay
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Monster Heaven: Ghost Hero
1990 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Masao Kusakari · Kaori Mizushima · Eisei Amamoto · Shôji Nakayama
Plot A major electronics company on the verge of developing technology to create a 3D image that can be physically handled is thrown into turmoil when a murderous demon is unleashed...
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Hakuchi: The Innocent
1999 · Movie · 146 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Tadanobu Asano · Miyako Koda · Reika Hashimoto · Masao Kusakari
Plot Director Macoto Tezuka’s harrowing drama is set in an alternate version of the 1990s in which World War II never ended and the citizens of Japan are subjected to nightly...
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Kumi to Tulip (S)
2015 · Movie · 15 min. · Japan
Direction Fumihiro Yoshimura · Macoto Tezuka
Plot Kumi is a little girl who lives in a world with sparkling metal skyscrapers, and where robots support everything. Kumi's playground is a garden by one of those skyscrapers with...
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Yukatsu: Reconstruction of Houjin Kagura
2012 · Documentary · 60 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot "Ogatsu Hoin Kagura" is handed down in Ogatsu Town, Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, which was devastated by the Great East Japan Earthquake. A documentary film that summarizes the people surrounding...
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A Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
2016 · Movie · 132 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Ryosuke Miura · Kôhei Takeda · Chika Arakawa · Tadanobu Asano
Plot It is a completely new cult movie that is neither a remake nor a sequel. Set in the near future, the rejuvenated Stardust Brothers go to the moon, rampage like...
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2008mm (S)
2008 · Documentary · 8 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot Color short film shot in 8mm by the Japanese filmmaker and animator Macoto Tezuka, son of the famous Osamu Tezuka. Born in Tokyo in 1961, Macoto Tezuka began making 8mm...
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silhouette (S)
2009 · Documentary · 8 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot Color short film shot in 8mm by the Japanese filmmaker and animator Macoto Tezuka, son of the famous Osamu Tezuka. Born in Tokyo in 1961, Macoto Tezuka began making 8mm...
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Moment
1981 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Hiromi Yano · Hajime Imai · Yumi Saikawa · Yoshiaki Nishimura
Plot Pocky, a cute but clumsy high school girl, is foretold by an I Ching who is 100% hit that she will die in three days. Despite her worries, her friends...
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Mind The Gap (S)
2021 · Documentary · 24 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot The latest work by Japanese Macoto Tezuka is a experimental short film that has been nominated for the "East Asia Experimental Competition" at the Image Forum Festival 2021.
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Experimental Film
1999 · Movie · 40 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Reika Hashimoto
Plot An experimental drama with the motif of “experimental film”. What does it mean to be reproduced on film? Under the theme of fundamental questions, it will express the relationship between...
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UNK (S)
1979 · Movie · 15 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Natsuko Yamamoto
Plot In homage to Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Unknown," a girl kidnapped by a flying saucer invites her to an alien city. There is no clear story or dialogue, and...
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Monster Heaven
1986 · Movie · 50 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Mitsutoshi Ishigami · Naoko Amihama · Masatô Ibu · Shigeru Mizuki
Plot An anthology of strange horror tales featuring yokai. It begins with astronauts finding a katana on the moon.
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OKUAGA (S)
2016 · Documentary · 18 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot Expressing the mysterious image of Okuaga with electronic sound and body movements of female dancers. A regional revitalization type work in collaboration with performers and staff living in Niigata who...
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PRELUDE (S)
1988 · Movie · 13 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Hajime Imai · Mika Kurosawa
Plot First part of Tezuka’s Elements films series representing “fire”.
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Black Kiss
2004 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Reika Hashimoto · Kaori Kawamura · Matsuoka Shunsuke · Jô Odagiri
Plot Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs...
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Danielle et Miranda (S)
1996 · Movie · 5 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot Animation with hand-drawn illustrations by Macoto Tezuka. The images of “NUMANITE” were arranged by the author himself and remade into this short work.
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MODEL (S)
1987 · Movie · 8 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Plot Animation using photos and copies. The double image on the left and right makes the woman’s face change rapidly.
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SPh
1983 · Movie · 60 min. · Japan
Direction Macoto Tezuka
Cast Hajime Imai · Katsuhiko Nakagawa · Yutaka Sugita · Koji Kadota
Plot Stylish independent film with a strange style that seems to be a fusion of science fiction, mystery, and contemporary art, with the theme of fairies living in modern cities. It...
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