Shinya Tsukamoto

In the black market, a war orphan is confronted with the struggles of people living in the immediate aftermath of WWII.

In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin lives in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. One day, a group of outlaw swordsmen enter the village.

In the final days of World War II, occupying Japanese forces in the Philippines face resistance from the local population and the American ...

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

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

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

When the son of an American man and a Japanese women is killed, the man transforms into Tetsuo.

A story of the unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated.

When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.

‘Female’ is comprised of five short films adapted from five novels by female authors. Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo Shinohara, ...

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s ...

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is ...

A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. ...

When his mother’s untimely death quickly follows his father’s, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his ...

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

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

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a ...

A “metal fetishist”, driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he’s made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into ...

A teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back and is soon forced to battle cyborg vampires over the future of humanity.

A short film where Shinya Tsukamoto experimented with effects and ideas, which eventually resulted in the feature film Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Through a series of obscene animations, the work of iconoclast animator Teruhiko “King Terry” Yumura lampoons a range of cultural ...