Shinya Tsukamoto Movies

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

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...

Early B+W student film.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to...

Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of...

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...

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

Six Stories based on Six Songs.

Suffering from double vision, a single mother tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous...

A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around....

"A Vietnam War centered scenario." Geoffrey Rush plays a psychotherapist dealing with a man suffering from post traumatic stress. Currently shooting.

Super-8 film.

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...

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

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

Through a series of obscene animations, the work of iconoclast animator Teruhiko "King Terry" Yumura lampoons a range of cultural icons and taboos:...

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