Shinya Tsukamoto Movies

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...

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

Isono Sae is an office lady in Showa 63 (1988), who has difficulty living during the economic bubble when everything became expensive. Somehow, Sae...

Interview with world renown cult director Shinya Tsukamoto. This interview will tell you how and when he started creating his own world of cinema...

A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".

Career spanning interview up to 2020.

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

A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular...

Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his...

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

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

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

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

Ryo reads a short story written by Banana Yoshimoto.

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

Super-8 film.

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

Early B+W student film.