Shinya Tsukamoto

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Kei Fujiwara

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Dir. Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno · With Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Dir. Takashi Miike · With Tadanobu Asano, Nao Omori, Shinya Tsukamoto

A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he's there, or why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Takahiro Murase

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Shinya Tsukamoto, Kaori Fujii, Kôji Tsukamoto

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.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Cocco, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yuko Nakamura

Rinko, a woman in a sexless marriage, is blackmailed by a stalker with intimate photos, forcing her into a series of erotic acts that disrupt her mundane life.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Asuka Kurosawa, Shinya Tsukamoto, Susumu Terajima

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura

A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.

Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Tomorowo Taguchi, Shinya Tsukamoto, Nobu Kanaoka

A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Dir. Shinya Tsukamoto · With Tadanobu Asano, Nami Tsukamoto, Kiki