Soundtrack: Chu Ishikawa

The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Chu Ishikawa. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.


Vital

2004 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Nami Tsukamoto · Kiki · Kazuyoshi Kushida

Synopsis 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 dissection, he decides to join the medical school with the...

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

Synopsis 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. Her husband Shigehiko is an important businessman. They have no...

6.5

359 votes

6.5

359 votes

Fudoh: The New Generation

1996 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Shosuke Tanihara · Kenji Takano · Marie Jinno · Tamaki Kenmochi

Synopsis Hailed by TIME magazine as one of the ten best of 1997, FUDOH is a stylized Yakuza film about Riki Fudoh, a high school student whose Yakuza kingpin father murdered his other son, Riki's brother, in order to settle a...

6.4

304 votes

6.4

304 votes

Tokyo Fist

1995 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Kaori Fujii · Shinya Tsukamoto · Kôji Tsukamoto · Naoto Takenaka

Synopsis 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...

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

Synopsis 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 caught in a violent group of young vicious punks. They...

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

Synopsis 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.

6.2

161 votes

6.2

161 votes

Shadow of Fire

2023 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Shuri · Ouga Tsukao · Hiroki Kono · Mirai Moriyama

Synopsis The desperate lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post–World War II period through the story of a child dealing with unimaginable adversity.

6.2

21 votes

6.2

21 votes

Killing

2018 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Sôsuke Ikematsu · Yû Aoi · Ryusei Maeda · Shinya Tsukamoto

Synopsis 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 sure to be replaced by war and conflict across the...

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

Synopsis 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 car. He must face the antagonist which lives inside him...

5.9

3K votes

5.9

3K votes

Fires on the Plain

2014 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Shinya Tsukamoto · Yûko Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakamura · Lily Franky

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 came from. He has a terrible stomach injury and is...

5.8

331 votes

5.8

331 votes

Dead or Alive 2: Tôbôsha

2000 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Sho Aikawa · Riki Takeuchi · Ken'ichi Endô · Shinya Tsukamoto

Synopsis Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives...

5.8

789 votes

5.8

789 votes

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

1992 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

Direction Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast Tomorô Taguchi · Iwata · Nobu Kanaoka · Keinosuke Tomioka

Synopsis 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 experiment on him, speeding up the mutative process.

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

Synopsis 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 their death. Then one of the victim's wife who was...

4.6

289 votes

4.6

289 votes

Seeds of Anxiety

2013 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Not rated

Not rated