
Birthday:
01-15-1962
(63 years)
Birthplace:
Sakai, Osaka, Japan
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Cat City
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2006
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A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.
Burst City
Act like Mad Brother
event1982 star_border 6.1
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Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Mirrored Mind
Act like I
event2005 star_border 6.7
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An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
August in the Water
Act like Stone Tribe Emissary
event1995 star_border 6.7
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A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
Āto nanka iranai!
Act like Narrator (voice)
event2022
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A film on the meaning of art, Session 1: Kingdom of Inertia, Session 2: 4.6 Billion Years of Solitude
Jeonju Digital Project 2004
event2004 star_border 3
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Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai
Osaka Story
Act like Policeman
event1999 star_border 5
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Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.
Endless Waltz
Act like Kaoru Abe
event1995 star_border 5.8
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Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.
Atlanta Boogie
event1996 star_border 5
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"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
Tampon Tango
event1984
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The film revolves around a pornographer and several of his actors and actresses. One of the women mentions interest in setting up a scene where tampons are forcibly inserted into a girl's vagina as this kind of scene has 'never been done before.' From there the film delves into a blurry of oddball scenes consisting of penis guitar playing and women placing explosives in their lower regions.
Soft Skin
event1998 star_border 6.9
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Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.
The Black House
Act like Officer Matsui
event1999 star_border 6.3
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A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned about her safety, the agent visits her house only to find that her young son has hanged himself. As he investigates further, more and more people connected with this family start having "accidents," and if he's not careful, he might be next.
H Story
Act like The Writer
event2001 star_border 5.8
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An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Romantic Mania
Act like Jirō Nagai
event1997
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A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatrical release was postponed and the work announced as OV was released to the public at a special screening at the Kamemei Painting Theater in Tokyo.
Robinson's Garden
event1987 star_border 6.3
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Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.
Never Mind a Little Rain
Act like Himself
event1984
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An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others.
pierce LOVE&HATE
event1997
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Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man to a hotel as usual and tries to kill him, but ends up failing to do so.
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Act like Takehiko Natsuoka (1 ep.)
event1995 star_border 8.2
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A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.
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