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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


  • Haze on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Kaori Fujii,  Takahiro Murase
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A man wakes to find himself locked in a tiny concrete room. Why is he there and where did he come from? A terrible stomach injury means that he 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 ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 376 members
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  • Vital on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tadanobu Asano,  Nami Tsukamoto,  Kiki
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A man awakes in a hospital after a car accident to discover that he has lost his memory. At first he is unable to even recognise his parents, but, as his memories return so does his earlier interest in medicine. After enrolling in a medical course, he soon finds himself having to dissect a female ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 1,192 member
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  • Marebito on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Tomomi Miyashita
    Director: Takashi Shimizu
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto) is a cameraman possessed by the craving to understand fear. In particular, he obsesses over his footage of a grisly suicide in the subway. Returning to the scene to better comprehend the dead man's reasoning, he opens a doorway into a bizarre, cavernous underworld. Here ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 1,069 member
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  • A Snake Of June on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Asuka Kurosawa,  Yoji Kohtari,  Shinya Tsukamoto
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A dark tale of erotic desirein a rain-soaked urban Japan, A SNAKE OF JUNE is the story of a married couple whose world is turned upside down when Rinko's reserved wife, Shigehiko, is sent an envelope by a mysterious stranger marked "Your Husband's Secrets" containing pictures of her husband ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,140 member
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  • Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Tadanobu Asano,  Nao Omori,  Shinya Tsukamoto
    Director: Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 252 members
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  • Ichi The Killer on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Tadanobu Asano,  Nao Omori,  Shinya Tsukamoto
    Director: Takashi Miike
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Prolific director Takashi Miike (AUDITION) keeps finding new ways to test the boundaries of on-screen violence. ICHI THE KILLER is a masterful piece of filmmaking, simultaneously funny and horrific, but it's only for viewers with strong stomachs. One character, Kakihara (Japanese indie film ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 9,667 members
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  • Bullet Ballet on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto,  Kirina Mano
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Traces the life of Goda as it spirals out of his control. Following the suicide of his girlfriend, Goda becomes obsessed with obtaining a Smith and Wesson Chief's Special, and will not rest until it is in his possession.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 161 members
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  • Tetsuo 2 - Body Hammer on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Kei Fujiwara,  Tomoro Taguchi
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A slick revisioning of the 'mechanization of man' themes introduced by Tsukamoto in the more meditative 'TETSUO - THE IRON MAN'. Here, the Iron Man is a well-heeled, sedate Japanese businessman whose literal transition into metal, precipitated by the abduction of his son by punks, finds him taking ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 654 members
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  • Hiruko The Goblin on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Kenji Sawada
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hordes of demons wait behind the Gates of Hell where a school has been built. Hiruko is sent to Earth to behead students and reassemble their heads on the demon's spider-like bodies...
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 311 members
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  • Tokyo Fist on DVD
    Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Shinya Tsukamoto plays insurance salesman Tsuda, whose placid life with his fiancée Hizuru is turned upside down when his old high-school classmate Takuji appears. Now a professional boxer with serious emotional problems, Takuji's arrival sparks the attention of Hizuru, who becomes fixated ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 272 members
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Shinya Tsukamoto facts

5 most recent films

Haze - 2.5 stars
Vital - 2.5 stars
Marebito - 2.5 stars
A Snake Of June - 2.5 stars
Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ichi The Killer - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Ichi The Killer - 3.0 stars
Bullet Ballet - 3.0 stars
Tetsuo - The Iron Man - 3.0 stars
Tokyo Fist - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Haze - 2.5 stars
Vital - 2.5 stars
Hiruko The Goblin - 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 Shimizu - 1 times - show films