Movies: Shinya Tsukamoto

Ryo reads a short story written by Banana Yoshimoto....

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 s...

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers....

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015....

A giant prehistoric man destroys some cities. Early Super-8 Tsukamoto short film. Loosely based on a short Shigeru Mizuki story....

Career spanning interview up to 2020....

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 t...

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 i...

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....

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 wea...

Shinya Tsukamoto's animated promo for the Ca' Foscari Cinema in Venice....

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 Fukas...

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Shinya Tsukamoto recalls the development of his adaptation of 'Fires on the Plain' by Shohei Ooka...

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 n...

Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1977 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Television)...

Shinya Tsukamoto's "Venice 70: Future Reloaded" short about the future of cinema....

Early 8mm student film. Selected for the 1975 Japan Recording Video Festival (sponsored by Nippon Television)...

Early B+W student film....