Kanji Tsuda

Director/screenwriter Shimizu Takashi spins the tale of a family that is brutally killed in their own home, leaving behind an evil spirit burning with hatred. When an unknowing homecare worker enters the house, the spirit is awakened and a terrifying chain of events begins, passing through all those who set foot within its walls. (Lions Gate Films)

In spring, a girl leaves the island of Hokkaido to attend university in Tokyo. Once there, she is asked to reveal why she wanted to go there in the first place (imdb)

In 1973, Advant Gamera self-destructed to kill a murder of Gyaos, which were attacking a small village. One of the survivors was a little boy. Thirty three years later (2006), the little boy has grown up and owns a small restaurant in the Japanese coastal town of Iseshima. He has a son named Toru. (Wikipedia)

The films pits a gang of idle teens joined only by their shared love of karaoke against a group of middle aged women, likewise joined by a love for karaoke, in an escalating cycle of vengeance when one of the teens tries to pick up one of the women on a whim and reacts with bloody violence when he thinks she is mocking him in her rejection. (AsianMediaWiki)

Nishida and Yamazaki are about to rob a bank when a robber appears with a bag of money and cops chasing him wearing the same mask. Both Nishida and the robber are killed by oncoming cars, and Yamazaki ends up with the bad of money. What transpires next can only be described as the worst possible day each and every person. (whatismyname)

An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company. (imdb)

Akihiko Shiota's deliciously perverse "Gips" charts the relationship between two women, the submissive stenographer Kazuko and the dominant Tamaki, who has interesting ways of enslaving members of both sexes. (VIFF)

Actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie. Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramantial relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girlfriend in the course of the interview. Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train... (dddhouse.com/v3/product_details.php?ProductID=8637 (slightly edited))

When the older brother of junior high school student Saori is arrested for murder she is separated from her family for her own protection. She ends up living with a police detective named Katsuura and his family. Katsuura has to get information from her without making her already-troubled mental state any worse. Meanwhile, his own daughter finds parallels between herself and Saori. (eiga.wikia.com)

Ace pilot Trava and his personal mechanic buddy Shinkai, on their way to mark an out-of-the-way planet, pick up Mikuru, a girl with no memory. The three are about to discover that the planet is more than it seems.

When the directors of Tokyo Gore Police and Eat the Schoolgirl get together to make a splatter comedy horror, you know you are in for a wild, freaky ride with some outrageous fight sequences, gallons of gushing blood and strange body mutations. Vampire girl Monami wants handsome student Mizushima to be hers for eternity but his current girlfriend, bitchy class queen Keiko, isn't keen on the idea and enlists her father to turn her into a Frankenstein-like creature so she can exact her revenge. (leedsfilm.com)

The high school girl Chise and her classmate Shuji are in love with each other. Unfortunately, Chise is no ordinary girl but an ultimate battle cyborg developed by the Japanese government for military purposes.

Set in the distant future where multi-wheeled flying air-cars replaced today's four-wheel vehicles, Redline follows the intertwined journeys of competitors in the deadliest car-racing game in the universe. (madhouse)

In the early 1700s, Lord Sodom Ichibei is celebrating his wedding day when his bride-to-be suddenly vomits blood on her white gown and dies. Suspecting witchcraft, he kills his bride's two maids, but once he realizes their innocence, he becomes completely insane and kills everyone around him. 300 years later, his descendant goes through the same. This transforms Ichiro into the evil and vengeful 'Sodom the killer', a cursed man who becomes blind at the spot.

Japanese splatter action comedy is on the menu when director Noboru Iguchi and karate girl Rina Takeda join forces to take on flying killer sushi monsters in DEAD SUSHI! (Fantastic Fest)

The film follows Detective Hoshino, who is investigating the murder of a maid. He begins to interrogate her boss Miyako Romberk. She leads him down a dark path to her ex-lover Ukyo. When he infiltrates Ukyo's hideout, his case takes a turn for the worse. Detective Hoshino discovers that Ukyo has a thing for biting the necks of his victims. (FilmArcade.net)

Tomoko is a schoolgirl who blames her lack of luck in love on her weight. She has a distorted view of herself when looking in the mirror, and keeps misreading the bathroom scales. Tomoko's mother keeps on feeding her up, while her best friend starts homing in on the boy who dumped her... (gooddrama.net)

An elementary school student named Masashi finds flat cardboard boxes at a home in which he just moved in. A strange creature like jellyfish comes from the cardboard. Masashi names the strange, but cute creature "Kurage Bo" and they become friends. Masashi places Kurage Bo in a bag and takes the creature with him to school his new school. The other students and adults can not see Kurage Bo.

Kamen Rider: The First is a 2005 Japanese tokusatsu superhero film. The film is an adaptation of the television series Kamen Rider, though there are many differences between the film and the original ... (Wikipedia)

This movie is an alternate ending to the series, taking place after the events of episode 46. With only six Riders remaining in the Rider War, Shirō Kanzaki feels that time is running short. As Yui's life grows short, she recalls memories and shows Shinji Kido and Ren Akiyama pictures of her childhood drawings, which explains the reasoning for the Mirror Monsters and Shiro's reason to start the Rider War. (Wikipedia)

Deep within the basement of Tokyo's Orion Dance Academy is a politically subversive training ground where aspiring young starlettes are transformed into assassins and spies. Highly skilled in toe-tapping terrorist techniques and sophisticated disguises (such as a large Pink Bunny suit!), our team of four babettes must fight the diabolical security forces of Japan to free their Mother Land, Okinawa. Will they succeed? Will they survive?(sarudama.com)

The 'Suicide Manual' DVD produced by Yu and Rie about the case causes more people to commit suicide. A forensic investigation is held after a forensics lab tech fails to stop his girlfriend killing herself. The end of the film reveals the 'evil spirit' causing these events to have been the producer of the 'Suicide Manual' DVD. (Wikipedia)

A motorcycle accident in the city will be the precursor to a series of bizarre phenomena being revealed consecutively. Meanwhile, a girl named Yoko possesses a second sight which allows her to see strange things invisible to others. (letterboxd)

A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but keeps the information from her boyfriend. When he finds out, he decides to plan a wedding even though she only has one month to live. (imdb)

A young man, Kazuo, joins a new cult religion even though he sees through the initial recruitment pretense, and participating in the activities of a new social phenomenon, some of whose members genuinely believe in the principles and practice as preached, while others have more Machiavellian motives. (imdb)

Even if she usually appears cool and reserved on the outside, Tsuyako is the very soul of the love hotel that she has been running by herself since her husband disappeared many years ago. She gets a little break from her daily routine from the schoolchildren, young parents, and retired people from the neighborhood, who she lets use the idyllic rooftop of her house in the middle of Tokyo like a park. So the 13-year-old runaway Mika seeks shelter with her. (asianwiki)

On the morning of a certain Tuesday, a mysterious "death race" is suddenly announced on television. Viewers are enthralled by the excitement of the competition, with participants, their loved ones held hostage, getting knocked out of the race one after another in unpredictable ways. Meanwhile, survivors refer to a guide book issued to each participant for tips on how to succeed. (imdb)

Set around Ide, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, Sasaoka Yuri and Ogawa Yosuke have been friends since they were children. They are crazed about bicycling. The two grow up through interacting with people in town. (imdb)

In the quiet countryside, the naturalistic family from Tokyo deprive the local man of his place to live. This is a satirical comedy on the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. (imdb)

A film adaption of the manga Cat Eyed Boy by famous horror manga artist Kazuo Umezu. The film follows a strange boy with cat like features. (themoviedb)

The fourth movie in the highly sucessful Eko Eko Azarak series. Following the events of the second movie, Misa (this time played by TOEI poster child and Battle Royale II starlette, Natsuki Kato) discovers, along with the rest of Japan, the strength of her newly acquired powers when she and her friends are attacked in the woods… (themoviedb)

Soon after meeting a spectral child in the endless corridors of a modern hospital, a woman returns home to find a mysterious e-mail waiting in her inbox. Upon opening the message, the woman is transported into a paranormal universe unlike anything she has ever experienced. Once there, she quickly discovers that the only way home is to solve the mystery surrounding the death of an innocent young boy. (themoviedb)

Shiori, a 21-year-old agriculture student receive training at a winery at a sake brewery in Hiroshima. But things don't go well. The owner of the sake brewery passes away and the brewery faces a crisis. She also develops feelings for the late owner's son. (themoviedb)

Masayuki Suzuki is an escape artist. He subsequently becomes a national icon because there isn't a prison that can hold him. He is eventually sent to the Confined (Prison) Island. Can he escape this time, or is he trapped forever? (imdb)

Nobuko tried to be successful as an actress in Tokyo, but wasn't popular. She married her manager and soon divorced. Now a once-divorced woman in her mid-30s, she returns home to the Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out with domestic chores. (imdb)

When Japan surrenders at the end of World War II, soldier Hiroo Onoda retreats into the jungles of the Philippines to continue the war himself for another 10,000 days. (imdb)

The year is 1947, during the war-torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who was this man? Before the war, he had a bright future ahead of him as the proficient and popular rakugoka, Usagi Morinoya. However, because of an injury sustained during the war, his face is covered in bandages, and he suffers from total amnesia. As if trying to recover his memory, the man only keeps mumbling in a hollow voice his trademark...

Shunichiro Miki delivers a shot of utter madness. Penis guns! Nipple monsters! A giant girl running a very small shop! This quasi-sequel to THE FUNKY FOREST more than lives up to the weird factor of its predecessor. (Fantastic Fest)

Masaka Kubota plays high-school student Keita, who leads a secret life as a "network investigator" for a secret organization. In the introductory episode, Keita has moved to a new school in Tokyo but doesn't like it. His best friend from his previous school comes to Tokyo, and they run away together. Passing through a construction site, the pair are attacked by a robot but are then saved by a man named Takimoto and his strange sidekick, a cell phone with arms and legs.

In this series, Kanon and Fuka try out to be members of the idol group MiraclexMiracle alongside idol Mai. Upon joining, they find out that Mai is a Miracle Tunes Warrior, protecting the world from the negative energy of Lord Maou. Using their fans positive energy from their idol activities, Fuka and Kanon join the Idol Warriors. The girls must fight to save their world, and the world of the Land of Music - the mystical land where their powers come from.

A film of Hokusai: the most famous Japanese artist in the world. ‘The Man Mad about Art’, once a struggling artist that won fame, but kept striving his whole life to pursue his artistic talent. (mubi.com)

A knight in a suit of golden armor battles with a magical beast out to destroy the world. (imdb)

Sawako enjoys taking pictures of her uncle and collecting them. The men she has dated so far have always been older than her, but she has been unable to speak well with her father, and things have been awkward. Then, Sawako's heart gradually changes as she grows closer to Mori, a co-worker of the same age.

Kyosuke, an editor at a publishing company, keeps his concerns about his stagnant relationship with his wife hidden. As he struggles with his feelings, he meets Reika, the lover of a talented up-and-coming novelist, and becomes obsessed with her.

An elementary student named Junichi is having trouble returning an eraser he borrowed from his secret crush, Maeda. With the support and encouragement of rookie teacher Anna, Junichi gets over his shyness and starts a band with his classmates. (letterboxd.com)

On her 18th birthday, Nami witnesses the brutal murder of her parents by a man with a burn on his hand. She is then falsely accused of the crime and sent to jail. Sworn to vengeance, Nami battles corrupt officials and cruel inmates to escape prison, only to search through the underbelly of Japanese society to find the man with a burn on his hand, ‘stinging’ anyone in her way.

Five years have passed since 12 members of the choir were brutally murdered in the music room of Seiran Jogakuin, a prestigious school in the suburbs of Tokyo. A TV news crew visits the scene to clarify the rumor that children's songs can be heard coming from the closed school. Accompanied by Kyoko, an acoustic analyst, the team begins their own investigation into the incident, but one after another, strange things begin to happen to the staff...

Tadaomy Ando became a yakuza boss at a young age. Because of his subordinate, he quit the yakuza. Now, he learns from Takashi Konaka the trade of illegal money lending and how to collect debts. Tadaomy Ando decides to become a loan shark. He has customers but has a hard time collecting debts.

Tukasa works for Tadaomy's loan shark company. He picks up more female debtors because of his appealing looks. One day, Erina appears in front of Tukasa. Erina used to be an idol and she now sings on the street.