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  • Tokyo Fist
  • Tokyo Fist review by A customer from Leicester
    Rated - 4.0 stars mechanic boxing 20 December 2008
    ...This is the kind of film the director Shinya Tsukamoto makes over and over again: It follows a guy lost in Tokyo. He has a girlfriend and an office job. We see these only brief...   Read customer review
  • Haze
  • Haze review by DJM666 from Walsall, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars A strange but interesting movie 25 September 2006
    ... up but the woman insists on going forward.' Written, directed and starring Shinya Tsukamoto (writer and director of Tetsuo, A Snake of June and Vital), Haze is a very inte...   Read customer review
  • Marebito
  • Marebito review by gothicHM from herts,uk
    Rated - 4.0 stars Atmospheric Horror 26 September 2006
    ...ned within the thoughts of Masuoka, played by the director of Tetsuo Iron Man - Shinya Tsukamoto, as revealed through his voice overs. Masuoka is a filmmaker obsessed with capt...   Read customer review

Shinya Tsukamoto - filmography


  • Kotoko on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Japanese psychological thriller directed by and starring Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Kotoko (Cocco) is a psychologically disturbed young mother who we learn sees two of everyone - one good, one evil. These hallucinations cause her to self-harm as a way of grasping on to reality, but when the authorities ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 72 members
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  • Haze on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Masato Tsujioka,  Shinya Tsukamoto,  Mao Saito
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Japanese horror. An unnamed man wakes up in a tiny, cramped, concrete space, in which he can hardly move. With a terrible stomach injury and life-threatening blood loss, the man begins to explore his nightmarish prison, and is beset by horrific visions at every turn.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 418 members
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  • Vital on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Lily,  Hana Kino,  Kiki
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Supernatural Japanese thriller. Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) is badly injured in a car accident that also kills his girlfriend Ryoko (Nami Tsukamoto). When he eventually recovers, he has no memories of his previous life, or of Ryoko. A blank shell of a man, Takagi finds a series of medical textbooks in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,249 member
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  • Marebito on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Tomomi Miyashita
    Director: Takashi Shimizu
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Disturbing Japanese horror, directed by Takashi Shimizu. Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a cameraman obsessed by the footage he takes of a violent suicide in a subway. When he returns to the scene, he discovers a doorway into a strange otherworld populated by ghosts and subterranean creatures, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,154 member
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  • A Snake Of June on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Yoji Kohtari,  Shinya Tsukamoto,  Asuka Kurosawa
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    During an insistent June downpour in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, a dark erotic force infiltrates the lives of Rinko, a reserved career woman in her thirties, and Shigehiko, her obsessively clean workaholic husband. Invading the most private aspects of the couple's lives, a mysterious stranger ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,188 member
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  • Ichi The Killer on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Sabu,  Nao Omori
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Deranged, perverse and teeth-gnashingly violent, this is a typical Takashi Miike film, replete with brutal sadism and copious blood spilling. Anjo, the boss of a Yakuza clan, has made off with all the clan's money, and the gang begin a merciless and bloody campaign to track him down, led by sado-..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 10,006 members
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  • Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Sabu,  Nao Omori
    Director: Takashi Miike,  Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Deranged, perverse and teeth-gnashingly violent, this is a typical Takashi Miike film, replete with brutal sadism and copious blood spilling. Anjo, the boss of a Yakuza clan, has made off with all the clan's money, and the gang begin a merciless and bloody campaign to track him down, led by sado-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 286 members
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  • Bullet Ballet on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Kirina Mano
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    One mans life is turned upside down after his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled by her action, he will go to extreme lengths to obtain 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, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 173 members
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  • Tetsuo 2 - Body Hammer on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Kei Fujiwara,  Tomoro Taguchi
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Companion piece to the cult hit 'Tetsuo - The Iron Man'. An unassuming office worker has an extreme reaction when his son is kidnapped by members of a skinhead cult. His anger is such that he begins to mutate into a metallic killing machine capable of unleashing an almost infinite violence upon ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 694 members
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  • Hiruko The Goblin on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Kenji Sawada
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Beyond the Gates of Hell where a school has been built, is teaming with hordes of demons attempting to escape. Hiruko is sent to Earth to behead students in order to reassemble their heads on the demon's spider-like bodies...
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 331 members
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  • Tokyo Fist on DVD
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tsuda is a young insurance salesman whose life, and the life of his fiancée Hizuru, is turned upside down when he meets an old schoolfriend, Takuji. Soon after Takuji's visit to Tsuda's apartment, Hizuru has her nipples pierced and starts making moves on Takuji while Tsuda begins a fitness and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 284 members
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Shinya Tsukamoto facts

5 most recent films

Kotoko - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Kotoko - 3.0 stars
Haze - 2.5 stars
Vital - 2.5 stars
Marebito - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Ichi The Killer - 3.0 stars
Tetsuo - The Iron Man / Tetsuo II - Body Hammer - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Bullet Ballet - 3.0 stars
Kotoko - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Haze - 2.5 stars
Hiruko The Goblin - 2.5 stars
Vital - 2.5 stars
A Snake Of June - 2.5 stars
Marebito - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tadanobu Asano - 5 times - show films
Nao Omori - 4 times - show films
Susumu Terajima - 4 times - show films
Alien Sun - 4 times - show films
Sabu - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Takashi Miike - 4 times - show films
Takashi Miike - 2 times - show films
Takashi Shimizu - 1 times - show films