Shinya Tsukamoto movie career page

Producer

(67 min)

1988 - Action, Science Fiction, Experimental - Japan

A young man and his girlfriend accidentally run over a metal fetishist and from this moment, the man starts to discover metal parts growing out of his body. After many horrific events, the young man faces off with the metal fetishist in a "climetalic" showdown.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Taguchi Tomoroh, Fujiwara Kei, Ishibashi Renji, Kanaoko Nobu, Tsukamoto Shinya

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Director

Bullet Ballet

(98 min)

1998 - Drama, Experimental - Japan

Goda, an advertising executive, becomes obsessed with getting his hands on the same model handgun that his girlfriend used to commit suicide. His search ends up crossing the path with a street gang that constantly beats him and his growing interest in their female member Chisato. After Goda ultimately succeeds in attaining a gun he aids, willingly, the gang in their own protection from a mysterious killer picking them off.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura, Kyoka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa

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Gemini

(83 min)

1999 - Horror - Japan

Yukio, a successful doctor back from serving in the war, is living with his parents and his amnesiac wife, Rin, in Meiji-era (1868-1912) Japan. There is an ominous presence in the house which Yukio's parents are especially sensitive to, and when they suddenly die Yukio finally discovers the source -- his identical twin, Sutekichi, abandoned at birth because of a deformity (a dragon-shaped birthmark on his thigh), has returned to take Yukio's place in society and bed. To achieve this end, he throws Yukio down into a dry well and keeps him prisoner there while taunting him with stories of his success at seducing Rin.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Masahiro Motoki, Ryo, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Shiho Fujimura, Akaji Maro, Naoto Takenaka

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Hiruko The Goblin

(88 min)

1991 - Horror - Japan

Professor Yabe, an archeology expert, discovers a site which seems to have something to do with demons. He disappears, but not before his letter summons his colleague Hieda. Hieda is a nervous, clumsy investigator of the paranormal, defamed for his belief in goblins. When he arrives at the spring-break abandoned school near the site, Yabe’s son joins him looking for his father and several missing friends. Pretty soon the only thing that’s missing of them are their heads. An unlikely duo is left to battle the spider-like decapitating creature in the dark school hallways and, later on, to find a way to prevent the demon invasion through a ‘Gate’ nearby…

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudo, Tomoh Sano, Ken Mitisuishi, Hideo Murota

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Nightmare Detective

(106 min)

2007 - Horror - Japan

A female detective (J-Pop starlet hitomi) is attempting to investigate a series of murders, which are beginning to feel more like serial suicides than anything else. Her partner on the case (Masanobu Ando) and she decided to use the help of a mysterious so-called Nightmare Detective (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) who claims to enter the dreams and nightmares of the less fortunate to find answers to the souls haunting their minds. The recent string of deaths seem to somehow be tied to cell phone calls made right before the victim’s untimely death. Could a psychotic mystery caller (Shinya Tsukamoto) be the man behind on this madness? Far from a retread of Takashi Miike’s ONE MISSED CALL, Shinya Tsukamoto’s NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE takes a familiar story and flips it on its side. Sure to please both horror fans and those in the mood for something with a bit more edge, the film grabs hold of the viewer and never lets go

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Ryuhei Matsuda, hitomi, Masanobu Ando, Ren Oshugi, Shinya Tsukamoto

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Tetsuo the Iron Man

(67 min)

1988 - Action, Science Fiction, Experimental - Japan

A young man and his girlfriend accidentally run over a metal fetishist and from this moment, the man starts to discover metal parts growing out of his body. After many horrific events, the young man faces off with the metal fetishist in a "climetalic" showdown.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Taguchi Tomoroh, Fujiwara Kei, Ishibashi Renji, Kanaoko Nobu, Tsukamoto Shinya

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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

(93 min)

1991 - Action, Science Fiction, Experimental - Japan

A Tokyo Businessman with his wife and son are walking the business shops when his son is kidnapped by a group of street thugs. While in pursuit of his son the father is shot by one of the thugs with a strange device. After the thugs oddly return his son, the father starts to notice odd changes with his body that occur in moments of anger. Only to be terrorized constantly by the thugs, the father decides to locate the gang and kill them all.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoro Taguchi, Hideaki Tezuka, Nobu Kanaoka

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Vital

(86 min)

2004 - Drama - Japan

After a car accident, medical student Hiroshi Takagi is left with a jumbled memory of prior people and events. As it turns out, though, the cadaver he is assigned to dissect in his class is the body of his girlfriend that died with him in the wreck. A past relationship, a strong connection; as the memories fade back into his mind nothing seems so clear-cut anymore.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Kiki, Jyun Kunimura

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Actor

Bullet Ballet

(98 min)

1998 - Drama, Experimental - Japan

Goda, an advertising executive, becomes obsessed with getting his hands on the same model handgun that his girlfriend used to commit suicide. His search ends up crossing the path with a street gang that constantly beats him and his growing interest in their female member Chisato. After Goda ultimately succeeds in attaining a gun he aids, willingly, the gang in their own protection from a mysterious killer picking them off.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Takahiro Murase, Tatsuya Nakamura, Kyoka Suzuki, Hisashi Igawa

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Ichi The Killer

(128 min)

2001 - Horror, Gangster - Japan

In a yakuza syndicate, the Anjo clan has suffered the loss of their head leader. Kakihara, Anjo's right hand man, sets out on a quest to find his boss (regardless of the evidence that says he's dead). Things begin to turn for the worst when a group of men that was once affiliated with their syndicate but kicked out set their eyes on seeing the Anjo Clan's complete annihilation. To make thing's worse, they've got the mysterious and extremely deadly killer Ichi on their tales. Will the Anjo Clan survive through Ichi's slaughter? Can they defy their gloomy fate? A sick and twisted fantasy about sadism and masochism with an ending so puzzling that it'll drive you to watch this nihilistic ride into the deepest trenches of the human psyche a second time, a third time, hell, maybe even a fourth. A film based on the extreme manga with the same name, Miike Takashi brings the panels of ink to life in this controversial film.

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Director : Takashi Miike

Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto, Paulyn Sun, Susumu Terajima, Toru Tezuka

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Marebito

(92 min)

2004 - Horror - Japan

Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a freelance cameraman craving to understand fear. He obsesses over his footage of a subway suicide and wants to understand the reasons that made one man poke out his eye facing some invisible horror. His investigation leads him to a cavernous underworld beneath Tokyo, where he discovers a beautiful mute girl. He takes her to his home and starts tending to her needs, including her unusual diet, suspecting that she might lead him to the discovery he craves for so much...

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Director : Takashi Shimizu

Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara

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Nightmare Detective

(106 min)

2007 - Horror - Japan

A female detective (J-Pop starlet hitomi) is attempting to investigate a series of murders, which are beginning to feel more like serial suicides than anything else. Her partner on the case (Masanobu Ando) and she decided to use the help of a mysterious so-called Nightmare Detective (played by Ryuhei Matsuda) who claims to enter the dreams and nightmares of the less fortunate to find answers to the souls haunting their minds. The recent string of deaths seem to somehow be tied to cell phone calls made right before the victim’s untimely death. Could a psychotic mystery caller (Shinya Tsukamoto) be the man behind on this madness? Far from a retread of Takashi Miike’s ONE MISSED CALL, Shinya Tsukamoto’s NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE takes a familiar story and flips it on its side. Sure to please both horror fans and those in the mood for something with a bit more edge, the film grabs hold of the viewer and never lets go

[more]

Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Ryuhei Matsuda, hitomi, Masanobu Ando, Ren Oshugi, Shinya Tsukamoto

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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

(93 min)

1991 - Action, Science Fiction, Experimental - Japan

A Tokyo Businessman with his wife and son are walking the business shops when his son is kidnapped by a group of street thugs. While in pursuit of his son the father is shot by one of the thugs with a strange device. After the thugs oddly return his son, the father starts to notice odd changes with his body that occur in moments of anger. Only to be terrorized constantly by the thugs, the father decides to locate the gang and kill them all.

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Director : Shinya Tsukamoto

Cast : Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoro Taguchi, Hideaki Tezuka, Nobu Kanaoka

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