Shinya Tsukamoto Movies

Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both are also unsatisfied with their partners —...

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

Six Stories based on Six Songs.

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...

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

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

Early B+W student film.

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

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...

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

A short film made for “Venice 70 - Future Reloaded”. A child playing with paper-figures.

Super-8 film.

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

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

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...

Eleven major film makers from Europe, America and Asia talk about Akira Kurosawa and discover surprising influences on their own work.

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

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