With Kaijyu Theater (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
Not Rated | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Votes: 19,780
2. Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992)
R | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When metal-worshipping fanatics abduct his son, a father unleashes his dormant destructive power, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a grisly symbiosis of metal and tissue. Who dares to defy the ultimate body-hammer?
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Tomorô Taguchi, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Nobu Kanaoka, Sujin Kim
Votes: 4,073 | Gross: $0.00M
3. Rokugatsu no hebi (2002)
R | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Asuka Kurosawa, Yûji Kôtari, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yukino Asai
Votes: 4,238
4. Tetsuo: The Bullet Man (2009)
Not Rated | 71 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Losing his son Tom in a hit and run triggers violent emotions in Anthony, whose body begins to transform. When the driver who killed Tom reappears, Anthony mutates into a mass of metal - a human weapon fuelled by an uncontrollable rage.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monô, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin
Votes: 1,742
5. Gemini (1999)
84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A successful doctor, Yukio's picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his family members one by one and reclaims his lover who is now Yukio's wife.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryô, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Masako Motai
Votes: 2,259
6. Tokyo Fist (1995)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Suspecting that his childhood friend, a professional boxer, is having a love affair with his fiancée, a businessman starts training rigorously in order to take him down.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Kaori Fujii, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kôji Tsukamoto, Naomasa Musaka
Votes: 3,063
7. Kotoko (2011)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror
When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yûko Nakamura, Cocco, En Matayoshi
Votes: 1,401
8. Bullet Ballet (1998)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
A man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura, Takahiro Murase
Votes: 2,348
9. Killing (2018)
Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Drama
Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan, Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yû Aoi, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Stacy Baker
Votes: 802
10. Fires on the Plain (2014)
87 min | Drama, War
A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura, Yûsaku Mori
Votes: 636
11. Nightmare Detective (2006)
Unrated | 106 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Hitomi, Masanobu Andô, Ren Osugi
Votes: 2,416
12. Vital (2004)
R | 86 min | Drama, Thriller
After a tragic car accident where his girlfriend Ryôko Ooyama (Nami Tsukamoto) died, Hiroshi Takagi (Tadanobu Asano) suffers amnesia with his memories completely blanked. When he sees a ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki, Kazuyoshi Kushida
Votes: 2,867
13. Hiruko the Goblin (1991)
89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
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 goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Masaki Kudou, Hideo Murota, Naoto Takenaka
Votes: 1,150
14. The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo (1987)
Not Rated | 47 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Hikari is a boy who is bullied and teased by the other boys at school because he has the odd distinction of having an electricity pole growing out of his back. However, one of his ... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, N. Senba, Tomorô Taguchi
Votes: 666
15. Futsû saizu no kaijin (1986)
18 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man gradually transforms into a robotic, metal-encrusted monster.
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Tomorô Taguchi, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Votes: 333
16. Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror
Still haunted by his unwanted abilities, which allow him to enter other people's dreams, and memories of his mother dying when he was a child, Kyoichi Kagenuma (Ryuhei Matsuda) contemplates... See full summary »
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Ryûhei Matsuda, Yui Miura, Hanae Kan, Hatsune Matsushima
Votes: 635
17. Basic Tsukamoto (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary
Basic Tsukamoto
Director: Masahiro Muramatsu | Stars: Mikako Ichikawa, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Votes: 44
18. Sunday Drive (1998)
Not Rated | 86 min
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murders. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.
Director: Hisashi Saito | Stars: Makiko Ono, Takuji Suzuki, Miako Tadano, Yoji Tanaka
Votes: 24
19.
Kaidan Horror Classics (2010– )
Episode:
Cherry Leaves and the Magic Flute
(2010)
Horror
Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Aoba Kawai, Jun Kunimura, Eri Tokunaga
Votes: 16