Released Date:
1989-07-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
67 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
(13287 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoA strange man known only as the "metal fetishist", who seems to have an insane compulsion to stick scrap metal into his body, is hit and possibly killed by a Japanese "salaryman", out for a drive with his girlfriend. The salaryman then notices that he is being slowly overtaken by some kind of disease that is turning his body into scrap metal, and that his nemesis is not in fact dead but is somehow masterminding and guiding his rage and frustration-fueled transformation.
Released Date:
1997-08-15
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
83 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (2898 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoSequel to "Tetsuo" this time has the Iron Man transforming into cyberkinetic gun when a gang of vicious skinheads kidnap his son. When the skinheads capture him, they begin to experiment on him...speeding up the mutative process!
Released Date:
1998-05-22
Languages:
Japanese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
87 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (2097 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoHisashi Saito (story)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (story)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (screenplay)
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiancèe Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.
Released Date:
1999-12-18
Languages:
Japanese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
87 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1524 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoA man sees his life changed for ever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in a violent group of young vicious punks. They first beat him severely and then he seeks revenge with his fist, then with a gun.
Released Date:
2002-07-25
Languages:
Japanese, Cantonese, English
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
129 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (40329 Reviews)
Director:
Takashi MiikeHideo Yamamoto (comic)
Sakichi Satè (screenplay)
When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?
Released Date:
2003-06-13
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
77 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2923 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoRinku is a suicide-prevention counselor, living with her husband Shigehiko. He's older than she, scrubbing things constantly, sexually indifferent. They sleep apart. During Tokyo's rainy season, Iguchi, a photographer Rinku has counseled by phone, sends her pictures he has taken through her skylight: she's wearing a short skirt, masturbating. He offers her the negatives if she'll follow his instructions. She's humiliated and agrees. He tells her he's only giving her license to express her inner desires. He sends her into the night to walk on the wild side. Then, she asks a favor of him, and soon her husband receives phone calls and photographs. Where will this triangle lead?
Released Date:
2005-10-01
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
49 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1753 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoA man wakes up to find himself locked in a tiny, cramped concrete room, in which he can barely move. He doesn't remember why he is there and where he came from. He has a terrible stomach injury and is slowly bleeding to death. He begins to explore the narrow confines of his prison and crawls around the maze-like room, only to see a horrible vision of hell waiting for him at each end of the room. Finally he gives up on the struggle and collapses in exhaustion. Then he begins to remember images from his past. Clinging to these images he creeps forward with the last ounces of his strength and meets a woman in a place that stinks of rotting corpses. The man and the woman both try to recall where they came from, but their memories are so uncertain that they are not even sure they want to return. The man is ready to give up but the woman insists on going forward. Neither of them can imagine the incredible end to the journey.
Released Date:
2012-03-02
Languages:
Japanese
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (710 Reviews)
Director:
Shin'ya TsukamotoCocco (original story)
Shin'ya Tsukamoto (screenplay)
The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve-wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. She is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.
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