Shinya Tsukamoto
Also Known As: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, 츠카모토 신야, 신야 츠카모토, Tsukamoto Shinya, شینیا تسوکاموتو
Biography: Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: January 01, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Bullet Ballet
Overview: After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-01
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Haze
Overview: 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 why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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A Snake of June
Overview: A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-13
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Ichi the Killer
Overview: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Genres: Action Crime Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-22
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Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Overview: 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 they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-02
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Overview: 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 accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-07-01
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Tokyo Fist
Overview: A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-21
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Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-28
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Nightmare Detective
Overview: When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-01-13
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Overview: 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 demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
Overview: A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-03
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The Perfect Education
Overview: 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 and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-30
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Marebito
Overview: A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-05-22
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The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo
Overview: A teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back and is soon forced to battle cyborg vampires over the future of humanity.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Overview: When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-09-05
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Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds
Overview: A journey into the creative mind of the most iconic video game designer in the world. Featuring appearances from visionary artists Guillermo del Toro, Nicholas Winding Refn, Grimes, George Miller, Norman Reedus, Woodkid, Chvrches, this visually captivating documentary gives a rare insight into Hideo Kojima’s creative process as he launches his own independent studio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-17
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The J-Horror Virus
Overview: How did a single ‘Big in Japan’ videotape change the course of global horror history? Find out in this insightful documentary charting the origins, evolution and diffusion across the world of a distinctive brand of Japanese supernatural chillers featuring vengeful ghosts manifesting themselves through contemporary technology against a backdrop of urban alienation and social decay. From Psychic Vision: Jaganrei (1988) and straight-to-video scary true stories to such key titles as Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and The Grudge (2002), critics and filmmakers reflect on how the bleak Dystopian visions and unsettling atmospheres infiltrated their way into the world’s shocker consciousness.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-27
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Kotoko
Overview: Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only respite the mother has from her visions is when she sings. An award-winning novelist overhears her singing whilst riding the bus and the pair subsequently develop a volatile relationship.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-26
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Basic Tsukamoto
Overview: Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema exactly the way he thought it should look. Also he is an accomplished actor appearing in many films directed by other directors like Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer). The interview includes very rare footage of never released films like "10000 Channels" his TV commercials and rare footage of live shows at the Kaijyu Theater in Tokyo.System
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-22
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The Phantom of Regular Size
Overview: A short film where Shinya Tsukamoto experimented with effects and ideas, which eventually resulted in the feature film Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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A Drowning Man
Overview: 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 cup of coffee before empting the bathtub and carrying Kumiko to the couch. When he wakes up after a nigh of heavy drinking, he finds himself in bed. Kumiko enters the room and asks how he is.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-10
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Chloe
Overview: Kotaro and Kuroe marry almost immediately in a Christian ceremony and move into an apartment. Life is completely joyous until, one day, Kuroe falls ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-15
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Story of a Giant Cockroach
Overview: Super-8 film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Wings
Overview: Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1975 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Television)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Genshi-san
Overview: A giant prehistoric man destroys some cities. Early Super-8 Tsukamoto short film. Loosely based on a short Shigeru Mizuki story.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Cloudy
Overview: Early B+W student film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Lotus Flower, Fly!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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Shinya Tsukamoto Commentary "Fires on the Plain" 20 Year Journey
Overview: Shinya Tsukamoto recalls the development of his adaptation of 'Fires on the Plain' by Shohei Ooka
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-08-15
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Scoop!
Overview: 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 editorial department for weekly picture magazine 'Scoop!,' he landed numerous scoops. He now works as a freelance photographer and chases after celebrity scandals. Shizuoka Miyakonojo works with Nobi Namekawa. She is a rookie reporter for 'Scoop!' and they land a scoop.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-10-01
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Shin Kamen Rider
Overview: A man forced to bear power and stripped of humanity. A woman skeptical of happiness. Takeshi Hongo, an Augmentation made by SHOCKER, and Ruriko Midorikawa, a rebel of the organization, escape while fighting off assassins. What’s justice? What’s evil? Will this violence end? Despite his power, Hongo tries to remain human. Along with freedom, Ruriko has regained a heart. What paths will they choose?
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-03-17
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119
Overview: 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... until one day. The monotony of their daily lives is interrupted by the appearance of a beautiful female college student, Momoko, who comes to visit her aunt. After catching a glimpse of Momoko, both Tatsuya and Nobuyuki can't stop thinking about her. Since then, the small town is not so quiet anymore…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-11-05
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Kurosawa's Way
Overview: Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Fires on the Plain
Overview: In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American offensive. The dwindling Japanese soldiers attempt to survive through the horrors of war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
Overview: A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-16
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Metal Gear Solid: Legacy
Overview: A documentary that explores the Metal Gear Solid game series with many interviews with game developers, journalists and famous film-makes such as Nicolas Winding Refn and Guillermo Del Toro.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-01
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The Last Days of Humanity
Overview: The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-05-08
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Tokyo Fair Weather
Overview: This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
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The Most Terrible Time in My Life
Overview: 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 brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-03-05
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Atlanta Boogie
Overview: "Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-09
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Quartet for Two
Overview: 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 enjoy living with a submissive husband. Minako, who works for a construction company, loves her job and is progressing in her successful career, while her husband eagerly takes care of the house and the kids. He buys groceries, he cooks, he does the laundry – constantly. The couple’s arguing intensifies until Minaka files for divorce. Their older daughter Mari isn’t that upset by her parent’s problems as she’s more interested in the piano piece she’s got to play with her mother at a concert organised by her music school; admittedly, she’s also rather interested in her music teacher. But her younger brother Toru feels betrayed by his mother and can’t manage to reconcile himself to his father’s role as a housewife. A partial reconciliation occurs at Minako and Mari’s concert, where their entrance on stage is met with loud applause.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-31
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
Overview: Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-03-18
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House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
Overview: Ghostly horror film based on the original story by horror manga artist Kanako Inuki, adapted from various horror episodes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Tracing Jake
Overview: Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to travel around the world, listening to the testimonies of various people of different ages, nationalities, and sighting situations who have seen "Jake".
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
Overview: A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-24
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The Road Less Travelled
Overview: 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 flight back to Kumamoto. Kazunari only 3,400 yen in his pocket. He becomes confused about his missed flight. At that time, Masami Tanaka (Kaoru Sugita), who works at an airport souvenir shop, talks to Kazunari. On Kazunari's unusual trip back to Kumamoto, he meets many different adults and begins to think about his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-09-28
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Showa Kayo Musical Mata Au Hi Made
Overview: Isono Sae is an office lady in Showa 63 (1988), who has difficulty living during the economic bubble when everything became expensive. Somehow, Sae wanders into the parallel world of “Reiwa” and decides to use Showa songs which she dislikes, as a weapon to change the world where human relationships are weak.
Genres: TV Movie Music Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-30
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Sunday Drive
Overview: A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Dogs
Overview: 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 sees the driver, Koichi, ignite spilled petrol to kill himself and his passenger. She drags Koichi to safety, but the passenger dies. Miki says nothing to challenge the inquest finding of `accidental death', and when she visits Koichi in hospital he begins to understand that her complicity in his crime implies a sexual invitation. But a gumshoe has photos of the crash, and the only way to stall his blackmail is to kill him, the first of several murders...
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-30
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Wait and See
Overview: 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 father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-19
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Shin Godzilla
Overview: 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 volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-29
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Silence
Overview: 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, and to propagate Catholicism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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Over the Fence
Overview: A recently divorced and traumatized man moves to Hakodate, Hokkaido and attends a vocational college to learn carpentry along with several other students who are in the same boat as he. When a couple of the guys go to a hostess club the man meets an unconventional girl who likes him and a relationship is born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-17
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Otakus in Love
Overview: Live-action adaptation of a madcap manga about art, opposites, love and a whole lot of cosplay.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-20
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Some Kinda Love
Overview: 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 beauty obsessed by UFOs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Travail
Overview: 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 in a slump and is danger of slipping into the C League and she blames her husband Kazuya, and Rina is tired of her boyfriend Hiroki, an unsuccessful musician.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-23
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Killing
Overview: In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One day, a group of outlaw swordsmen enter the village.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-08
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Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Overview: Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his main films, apart from the opinions about him by other filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano or Kinji Fukasaku.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-22
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Making of Gemini
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-12
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Teruo Ishii Fan Club
Overview: A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-12
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Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction
Overview: 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 publisher and subordinates and runs the ship well. Chatting with his direct boss he picks up a certain vibe. Did he misunderstand that the magazine is doomed and will be terminated? If so, he is not going down without a fight. He will fight to make it through and keep his, and the others', jobs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Overview: Six Stories based on Six Songs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Japanese Cinema's Provocateur Extraordinaire: Shinya Tsukamoto
Overview: Career spanning interview up to 2020.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-26
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
Overview: 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 Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehensive ‘80s Horror documentary cast ever assembled.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-06
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Sunday's Dream
Overview: 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 regarding redundancy. However, Shinobu soon gets remarried to Sakamoto depriving Kazuya of a place to stay. He then meets Sachiko who works in a salon where sexual pleasure is offered to men. They promise to have a date on the next Sunday by the sea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-22
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Welcome to the Quiet Room
Overview: 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 psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-10-20
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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。
Overview: 2024 TV Movie
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-12-31
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Sometimes Repentance
Overview: The latest film by Tetsuya Nakashima. Based on the novel by Bunzo Uchikai.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2025-06-01
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