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Shin'ya Tsukamoto is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Production Design, Cinematography and Gaffer Japonais born on 1 january 1960 at Tokyo (Japon)

Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Shin'ya Tsukamoto
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Nationality Japon
Birth 1 january 1960 (64 years) at Tokyo (Japon)

Shinya Tsukamoto (塚本 晋也, Tsukamoto Shin'ya, born January 1, 1960) is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.

Biography

Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. His cinematic influences included Akira Kurosawa. He made a number of films, ranging from 10-minute shorts to 2-hour features, until his first year at college when he temporarily lost interest in making movies. Tsukamoto then started up a theatre group, which soon included Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, and Tomorowo Taguchi, all of whom would continue to work with Tsukamoto up through the filming of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

One of their theatre productions at this time was Denchu Kozo no boken. At the end of the production, Tsukamoto did not want to waste all the effort they had put into building the set, so he decided to shoot a film version.

Tsukamoto's early films, Futsu saizu no kaijin (A Phantom of Regular Size) and Denchu Kozo no boken (The Adventures Of Electric Rod Boy) made in 1986/87, were short subject science fiction films shot on colour 8 mm film. His black & white 16 mm feature Tetsuo: The Iron Man, made in 1988. Tsukamoto has stated he has a love-hate relationship with Tokyo, and in the end the characters of this film set out to destroy it. Tetsuo is considered the definitive example of Japanese cyberpunk.

Tsukamoto's next film, Hiruko the Goblin, was a more conventional horror film, about demons being unleashed from the gates of hell. He then created a follow-up to Tetsuo: The Iron Man, named Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, which revisited many of the same ideas as the first movie but with a bigger budget and shot in color on 35 mm film. As a result, the film is often interpreted more as a companion piece than as a straightforward sequel. In Body Hammer, a salaryman's son is kidnapped by a group of thugs, who then force the man's nascent rage to make him mutate into a gigantic human weapon. Tokyo Fist (1995) again dealt with the idea of rage as a transformative force (similar to David Cronenberg's The Brood). Here, a meek insurance salesman discovers that an old friend of his, now a semi-professional boxer, may be having an affair with his fiancée. The salesman then enters into a rigorous and self-destructive boxing training program to get even.

In Bullet Ballet (1998), a man (played by Tsukamoto) discovers that his longtime girlfriend committed suicide with a gun, and becomes obsessed with getting a gun just like that one. His single minded behavior causes him to run afoul of a gang of thugs, especially when he shows interest in the young girl who is one of their compatriots. Gemini (1999) was an adaptation of an Edogawa Rampo story, in which a country doctor with pretensions of superiority has his life torn apart when another man who appears to be his exact duplicate enters his life. Things are complicated further by the twin taking control of his wife, an amnesiac with a criminal background. A Snake of June (2002) once again found Tsukamoto employing the formula of two men in competition for one woman, as a young lady is blackmailed into perverse sexual behavior against her husband's will—until her husband finds that he enjoys the blackmail more than the blackmailer does.

Vital (2004) again features a love triangle, this time consisting of two women and one man. The story concerns a young man whose girlfriend is killed in a car crash whilst being driven by him. He is a medical student and is given her body to dissect in class (whether by coincidence or intentionally is not clear). Tsukamoto also acted in and directed the short film Haze in 2005. In 2006, Tsukamoto directed the horror thriller Nightmare Detective (Akumu Tantei). The film centres around a vagrant with the supernatural ability to enter the dreams of others and a police officer who pleads with him to help her solve a series of bizarre murders committed by a serial killer with a similar ability, played by Tsukamoto himself.

Tsukamoto acts in nearly all of his films, with the exception of those that he worked on as a "director for hire" (namely Hiruko the Goblin and Gemini). Tsukamoto has appeared in many other directors' films as well, such as Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), and Ichi the Killer (2001), as well as Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast Vs the Dwarf (2002). He was the lead actor in Takashi Shimizu's Marebito (2004), and appeared more recently in Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007). He is also a successful voiceover artist for TV advertising in Japan. He also provided the Japanese voice of Vamp in the 2008 PlayStation 3 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (a character previously voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty).

Usually with

Chu Ishikawa
Chu Ishikawa
(14 films)
Kei Fujiwara
Kei Fujiwara
(1 films)
Cocco
Cocco
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Shin'ya Tsukamoto (31 films)

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Actor

Silence
Silence (2016)
, 2h41
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films
Actors Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Javier Bardem, Benicio del Toro, Adam Driver, Gael García Bernal
Roles Mokichi
Rating71% 3.599073.599073.599073.599073.59907
Au Japon, au XVII siècle, des missionnaires jésuites portugais sont victimes de persécution religieuse en se rendant sur les traces de leur mentor.
Shin Godzilla
Directed by Hideaki Anno
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Kaiju films, Giant monster films, Godzilla films, Disaster films
Actors Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Kengo Kora, Ren Osugi, Akira Emoto
Roles Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor
Rating68% 3.405383.405383.405383.405383.40538
Le retour du célèbre monstre Godzilla.
Shin Godzilla, 2h
Directed by Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La fin du monde, Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Giant monster films, Godzilla films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films
Actors Satomi Ishihara, Yutaka Takenouchi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Kengo Kora, Ren Osugi, Akira Emoto
Roles Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor
Rating68% 3.405253.405253.405253.405253.40525
Une créature géante se manifeste dans la baie de Tokyo, avant de faire surface et de terroriser la ville. Le cabinet ministériel se réunit d'urgence, mais le Premier Ministre est incapable de prendre une décision. Les radiations mesurées sur le passage de la créature démontrent qu'elle est le triste produit d'une contamination. Plus tard, elle évolue et revient sous une forme encore plus monstrueuse, réduisant Tokyo en poussière. Devant l'ampleur de la menace, les États-Unis décident d'utiliser l'arme nucléaire sur le Japon si ce dernier échoue à éradiquer la menace, réveillant le spectre des bombardements d'Hiroshima et de Nagasaki. Une équipe de chercheurs se regroupe alors en marge des décisions du Cabinet pour déterminer comment éliminer le monstre, surnommé "Godzilla". La France et l'Allemagne finiront par s'en mêler à leur tours.
Fires on the Plain, 1h27
Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yūko Nakamura, Masato Tsujioka
Roles Tamura
Rating65% 3.287583.287583.287583.287583.28758
Tamura est un soldat stationné sur l’île de Leyte (Philippines) vers la fin de la guerre. Présentant des signes de tuberculose, il est rejeté à la fois par son unité et par l’hôpital le plus proche qui n’a plus de place pour lui. Errant sans but précis sur l’île, il ne peut que constater, affaibli et quasi impuissant, la déliquescence dantesque des troupes impériales, dévorées par l’ennemi impitoyable et lourdement armé, la faim et la folie.
Kotoko
Kotoko (2011)
, 1h31
Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Cocco
Roles Seitaro Tanaka
Rating68% 3.4040053.4040053.4040053.4040053.404005
Suffering from double vision, a single mother (Cocco) tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only respite the mother has from her visions is when she sings. An award-winning novelist (Tsukamoto) overhears her singing whilst riding the bus and the pair subsequently develop a volatile relationship.
Kurosawa's Way, 52minutes
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Clint Eastwood, Hayao Miyazaki, Bernardo Bertolucci, Martin Scorsese, Bong Joon-ho, Abbas Kiarostami
Roles Self
Rating69% 3.473523.473523.473523.473523.47352
Onze grands cinéastes d’Europe, d’Amérique et d’Asie parlent de Akira Kurosawa et découvrent de surprenantes influences sur leur propre œuvre.
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, 15h15
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Alexandre Sokourov, Norman Lloyd, Lars von Trier, Paul Schrader, Kyōko Kagawa, Haskell Wexler
Roles Self
Rating83% 4.194644.194644.194644.194644.19464
L'histoire du cinéma international racontée à travers l'histoire de l'innovation cinématographique. Couvrant six continents et douze décennies, il montre comment les cinéastes sont influencés par les événements historiques de leur époque et par les autres cinéastes.
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, 1h11
Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Cyberpunk films
Actors Akiko Monō, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yūko Nakamura, Tomorowo Taguchi
Roles The Guy
Rating54% 2.7054252.7054252.7054252.7054252.705425
Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day his son is run over and killed by Yatsu, this film's version of "The Metal Fetishist". Shortly afterward Anthony begins to transform into metal. He discovers that the work of his scientist father may be the key to his transformation. In his father's house he discovers a secret room with files and papers detailing the Tetsuo Project as a way to turn people into androids. He also learns that his father met his mother while they each researched the project. Anthony's wife arrives but before she sees her transformed husband a S.W.A.T. team arrives and she is taken hostage. Anthony's transformation finishes its hold and he defeats the S.W.A.T. team with bullets fired from his body, but refrains from killing them. The severely injured team is extracted, but then killed by Yatsu.
Nightmare Detective, 1h46
Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Ryūhei Matsuda, Ren Osugi, hitomi, Masanobu Ando, Yoshio Harada, Hatsune Matsushima
Roles '0'
Rating60% 3.047623.047623.047623.047623.04762
A middle-aged man is taking a drink of beer. A young man (Matsuda) appears from under the floor, and it is revealed that the older man, Mitake, is a former teacher of Kagenuma's father. Kagenuma is being haunted by the soul of a daughter whom his wife had aborted without his knowledge. Mitake refuses to help him.
Welcome to the Quiet Room
Directed by Suzuki Matsuo
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Yuki Uchida, Kankurō Kudō, Ryō, Yu Aoi, Hideaki Anno, Yūko Nakamura
Roles Asuka's Ex-husband
Rating70% 3.535513.535513.535513.535513.53551
Une femme se réveille attachée sur un lit d’hôpital, sans savoir ce qu’elle fait là. On lui apprend qu’elle est internée en unité psychiatrique à la suite d’une tentative de suicide dont elle n’a aucun souvenir…
Haze
Haze (2005)
, 49minutes
Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Actors Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Masato Tsujioka
Rating64% 3.2003653.2003653.2003653.2003653.200365
Un homme se réveille, enfermé dans sorte de labyrinthe souterrain, tellement exigu, qu'il peut à peine s'y déplacer. Il ne se souvient ni d’où il vient ni comment il est arrivé dans cet enfer. À l'abdomen, il a une blessure profonde et douloureuse. Il commence à se déplacer dans les confins étroits de ce labyrinthe, en tentant de survivre aux pièges mortels omniprésents. Il doit parfois se déplacer à la force de ses dents...
Cutie Honey, 1h34
Directed by Hideaki Anno, Shingo Araki
Origin Japon
Genres Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films
Actors Eriko Sato, Jun Murakami, Mayumi Shintani, Ryō Kase, Kyūsaku Shimada, Suzuki Matsuo
Roles Office Worker in Destroyed Building
Rating62% 3.100523.100523.100523.100523.10052
Honey Kisaragi, modeste employée de bureau très naïve, est en fait une gynoïde capable de se transformer en Cutie Honey, la Guerrière de l'Amour. Quand Sister Jill et son organisation criminelle Panther Claws apparaît, Cutie Honey s'oppose à elle. Elle sera aidée par une inspectrice, et un mystérieux journaliste.
Otakus in Love, 1h54
Directed by Suzuki Matsuo
Origin Japon
Genres Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Ryūhei Matsuda, Suzuki Matsuo, Kiyoshiro Imawano, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Hideaki Anno, Hitomi Miwa
Roles Noro
Rating66% 3.3436853.3436853.3436853.3436853.343685
Est-ce qu'être un otaku peut mener à l'amour ? Aoki Mon est un « geek » obsédé par les mangas qui crée son propre manga en arrangeant des pierres colorées dans des boîtes en bois. L'amour le frappe littéralement lorsqu'il rencontre Akashi Koino, une dessinatrice de manga amateur, et une fan de cosplay qui décide que Mon est le parfait partenaire pour ses jeux farfelus de cosplay fantastique. Mais après avoir été habillé dans le costume de son héros de jeu vidéo préféré, Mon décide que les tendances « geek » de Koino sont même de trop pour un otaku comme lui. Néanmoins, ce n'est pas assez pour décourager Koino de chasser le chevalier qu'elle a choisi.
Marebito
Marebito (2004)
, 1h32
Directed by Takashi Shimizu
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Mika Ninagawa, Shun Sugata, Masayoshi Haneda
Roles Masuoka
Rating60% 3.0000153.0000153.0000153.0000153.000015
The film is about a man named Masuoka, played by Shinya Tsukamoto, who carries a camera everywhere he goes. He becomes obsessed with the idea of fear when he sees a frightened man shove a knife in his eye to commit suicide. Wishing to understand the fear that the dead man must have felt before his death, Masuoka descends into a labyrinthine underground area beneath the city, where he sees human-like creatures that walk on their hands and knees and whimper like dogs. While searching the series of tunnels and passages, Masuoka encounters a homeless underground inhabitant who warns him about the Deros. He then meets the ghost of Kuroki, the man who killed himself, and learns more about the underworld. After hours of searching, Masuoka discovers a mountain range with a village built by the underground dwellers. He finds a naked girl (played by Tomomi Miyashita) chained to the wall. He takes her back to his apartment and notices she doesn't eat, drink, or speak.
A Snake of June, 1h17
Directed by Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Asuka Kurosawa, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Susumu Terajima, Masato Tsujioka, Tomorowo Taguchi
Roles Michiro Iguchi
Rating68% 3.447383.447383.447383.447383.44738
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko, and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.