Shinya Tsukamoto
Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 2.0124 |
| Birthday | 1960-01-01 |
| Place of Birth | Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 신야 츠카모토, Tsukamoto Shinya, شینیا تسوکاموتو, |
1998
Bullet Ballet
7.004/142
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
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Bullet Ballet
2005
Haze
6.539/116
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 w...
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Haze
2003
A Snake of June
6.834/169
Rinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mund...
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A Snake of June
2001
Ichi the Killer
6.987/1092
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to in...
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Ichi the Killer
2000
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
6.899/104
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 vis...
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
1989
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
6.971/702
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 accident...
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1995
Tokyo Fist
6.768/149
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect...
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Tokyo Fist
2023
Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug
6/2
A TV special which contained the first 23 minutes of "Shin Kamen Rider" footage and was broadcasted on MBS in order to promote the movie.
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Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug
2007
Nightmare Detective
6/82
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.
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Nightmare Detective
2000
Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
6.231/13
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these d...
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
1992
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
6.265/134
A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
1999
The Perfect Education
5.429/14
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep an...
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The Perfect Education
2004
Marebito
6.021/145
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
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Marebito
1987
The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
6.51/51
A teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back and is soon forced to battle cyborg vampires over the future of humanity.
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The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
2010
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
5.4/85
When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed in a car crash, the man transforms into a rageful metallic being thirsty of blood and v...
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
2023
Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
6.72/25
A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring appearances from visionary artists Guillermo del Toro,...
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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
2023
The J-Horror Virus
0/0
How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, ev...
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The J-Horror Virus
2011
Kotoko
7.2/119
Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdow...
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Kotoko
2003
Basic Tsukamoto
6/2
Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exac...
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Basic Tsukamoto
1986
The Phantom of Regular Size
6.425/20
A short film where Shinya Tsukamoto experimented with effects and ideas, which eventually resulted in the feature film Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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The Phantom of Regular Size
2001
A Drowning Man
7/6
Tokio finds his wife Kumiko drowned in the bathtub one night. He lifts the telephone handset to call an ambulance but hesitates. Instead, he takes a c...
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A Drowning Man
2001
Chloe
7/3
Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls il...
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Chloe
1975
Story of a Giant Cockroach
0/0
Super-8 film.
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Story of a Giant Cockroach
1975
Wings
0/0
Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1975 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Television)
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Wings
1974
Genshi-san
0/0
A giant prehistoric man destroys some cities. Early Super-8 Tsukamoto short film. Loosely based on a short Shigeru Mizuki story.
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Genshi-san
1976
Cloudy
0/0
Early B+W student film.
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Cloudy
1979
Lotus Flower, Fly!
0/0
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Lotus Flower, Fly!
2018
Shinya Tsukamoto Commentary "Fires on the Plain" 20 Year Journey
0/0
Shinya Tsukamoto recalls the development of his adaptation of 'Fires on the Plain' by Shohei Ooka
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Shinya Tsukamoto Commentary "Fires on the Plain" 20 Year Journey
2016
Scoop!
6.4/28
Shizuoka Miyakonojo is a middle-aged paparazzi photographer. His skills as a cameraman are good, but he gambles and is in debt. When he worked in the...
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Scoop!
2023
Shin Kamen Rider
6.972/301
A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midori...
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Shin Kamen Rider
1994
119
6.333/3
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly... unt...
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119
2011
Kurosawa's Way
5.769/13
Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
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Kurosawa's Way
2015
Fires on the Plain
6.3/41
In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive....
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Fires on the Plain
2015
Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
0/0
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.
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Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
2015
Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
6.5/2
A documentary that explores the Metal Gear Solid game series with many interviews with game developers, journalists and famous film-makes such as Nico...
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Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
1997
Tokyo Fair Weather
7.25/8
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
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Tokyo Fair Weather
1994
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
7.538/13
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing bro...
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
1996
Atlanta Boogie
5.5/4
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborh...
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Atlanta Boogie
2001
Quartet for Two
8/1
Shotaro and Minako are arguing. Minako has confessed her infidelity to her husband and informs him of her intention to leave him. She has ceased to en...
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Quartet for Two
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
7.222/9
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
2000
House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
0/0
Athology film based on stories from House of Cockroaches, a collection of horror stories by queen of horror manga Kanako Inuki. The stories share a th...
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House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
2004
Tracing Jake
8/2
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to trav...
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Tracing Jake
2001
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
3.8/15
A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Det...
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
2013
The Road Less Travelled
5.5/2
Kazunari Katsuki (Gaku Sano) lied to his classmate that Tokyo stinks. Because of his comment, he goes to Tokyo alone. On his way back, he misses his f...
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The Road Less Travelled
2022
Showa Kayo Musical Mata Au Hi Made
0/0
Isono Sae is an office lady in Showa 63 (1988), who has difficulty living during the economic bubble when everything became expensive. Somehow, Sae wa...
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Showa Kayo Musical Mata Au Hi Made
1998
Sunday Drive
6/4
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destinatio...
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Sunday Drive
1999
Dogs
6/6
A tough woman is dragging a weaker man deeper and deeper into crime. Woman cop Miki is chasing a wanted man when she stumbles on a crashed car and see...
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Dogs
1998
Wait and See
7.286/7
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged fa...
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Wait and See
2016
Shin Godzilla
7.217/1545
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of vol...
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Shin Godzilla
2016
Silence
7.117/3284
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, an...
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Silence
2016
Over the Fence
6.4/21
A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other stude...
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Over the Fence
2004
Otakus in Love
6/9
Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
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Otakus in Love
1996
Some Kinda Love
9/1
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a be...
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Some Kinda Love
2002
Travail
7.4/5
Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners — Asami is...
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Travail
2018
Killing
7.087/69
In mid-19th century Edo period, a masterless rōnin named Ikematsu Sosuke resides in a peaceful village among those he helps. However, as the prevalent...
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Killing
2004
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
8.5/2
Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his mai...
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Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
2000
Making of Gemini
7/1
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
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Making of Gemini
2006
Teruo Ishii Fan Club
0/0
A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
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Teruo Ishii Fan Club
2021
Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
7.4/14
Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the...
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
2018
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
7/1
Six Stories based on Six Songs.
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Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2020
Japanese Cinema's Provocateur Extraordinaire: Shinya Tsukamoto
0/0
Career spanning interview up to 2020.
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Japanese Cinema's Provocateur Extraordinaire: Shinya Tsukamoto
2020
In Search of Darkness: Part II
7.7/48
The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Sea...
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
1999
Sunday's Dream
7/1
Kazuya goes to live with his mother Shinobu because his father, Yoshiki, who works in the same company, has fired him according to the company policy...
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Sunday's Dream
2007
Welcome to the Quiet Room
6.7/25
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatr...
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
2024
孤独のグルメ2024大晦日スペシャル 太平洋から日本海 五郎、北へ あの人たちの所まで。
7/3
2024 TV Movie
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2026
The Brightest Sun
0/0
When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth t...
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The Brightest Sun
2024
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
7.9/7
Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of hor...
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In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2025
Hero's Island
8/6
Set in post-war Okinawa, Japan, Gusuku had 3 close childhood friends: On, Yamako and On's younger brother Rei. On was the oldest of the group and he w...
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