Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad.

Filmography

• 2026Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? — Director, Writer, Editor, Camera Operator
• 2026The Brightest Sun
• 2025Hero's Island
• Shin Kamen Rider: Episode Format Version — Hiroshi Midorikawa
• 2024孤独のグルメ2024大晦日スペシャル 太平洋から日本海 五郎、北へ あの人たちの所まで。
• Hana Sugisaki's Filming Break — restaurant owner
• 2023Shadow of Fire — Director of Photography, Producer, Editor, Writer
• 2023Shin Kamen Rider — Hiroshi Midorikawa
• 2023Special Broadcast Movie "Shin Kamen Rider" Premise/Act 1: Kumo-Aug — Hiroshi Midorikawa
• 2023The J-Horror Virus
• 2022Showa Kayo Musical Mata Au Hi Made
• 2021Kiba: The Fangs of Fiction — Takano
• 2018Killing — Jirozaemon Sawamura, Director of Photography, Executive Producer, Screenplay, Editor
• 2018Shinya Tsukamoto Commentary "Fires on the Plain" 20 Year Journey — Self, Director
• 2018Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project — Satoshi Takahashi (segment "Canaria")
• dele
• 2016Over the Fence — Satoshi's Father (voice)
• 2016Scoop! — Taka
• 2016Shin Godzilla — Kunio Hazama : Jouhoku University Associate professor
• 2016Silence — Mokichi
• 2015Fires on the Plain — Tamura, Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay
• 2015Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
• 2013The Road Less Travelled — Sousuke Akiyama
• 2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded — Director
• 2011Ca' Foscari Cinema — Director
• 2011Kotoko — Seitaro Tanaka, Writer, Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
• 2010Kaidan Horror Classics — Director
• Kaidan Horror Classics — Director, Producer, Screenplay, Cinematography
• 2010Tetsuo: The Bullet Man — The Guy, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor, Production Design, Gaffer, Director of Photography
• Clouds Over the Hill — 明石元二郎
• 2009Lizard — Director, Producer, Editor
• 2008Nightmare Detective 2 — Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
• 2007Nightmare Detective — '0', Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Art Direction, Editor, Producer
• Sexy Voice and Robo — Takeo Hayashi
• 2007Welcome to the Quiet Room — Asuka's Ex-husband
• 2006Dirt(y) Hero
• 2006Teruo Ishii Fan Club
• 2005Female — Director
• 2005Haze — Editor, Producer, Director, Writer, Art Direction, Director of Photography
• 2005The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 — Director
• 2004Marebito — Masuoka
• 2004Otakus in Love — Noro
• 2004Tracing Jake
• 2004Vital — Director, Production Design, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography, Screenplay
• 2003A Snake of June — Michiro Iguchi, Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Production Design, Editor, Producer
• 2002A Drowning Man — Tokio
• The Private Detective Mike
• 2002Travail — Kazuya Miyamae
• 2001Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
• 2001Chloe — Eisuke
• 2001Ichi the Killer — Jijii
• 2001Legendary Crocodile, Jake and His Fellows
• 2001Quartet for Two — Yuuenchi no otoko
• 2000Dead or Alive 2: Birds — Magician Higashino
• 2000House of the Ghosts ~Kanako Inuki's World of Fear~
• 2000Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons — Wizard
• 1999Dogs
• 1999Gemini — Screenplay, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
• 1999Sunday's Dream — Sakamoto
• 1999The Perfect Education — Moriyama
• 1998Bullet Ballet — Goda, Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor, Art Direction
• 1998Sunday Drive — Producer
• 1998Wait and See — Doctor
• 1997Tokyo Fair Weather
• 1996Atlanta Boogie
• 1996Some Kinda Love — Kamisaki
• 1995The Stairway to the Distant Past — Yamaguchi
• 1995Tokyo Fist — Tsuda Yoshiharu, Screenplay, Director, Story, Director of Photography, Art Direction, Producer, Editor
• 1994119 — Masaaki Tomita
• 1994The Most Terrible Time in My Life — Yamaguchi
• 1992Tetsuo II: Body Hammer — Yatsu - The Guy, Editor, Art Direction, Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1991Hiruko the Goblin — Director, Editor, Screenplay
• 1989Tetsuo: The Iron Man — Metal Fetishist, Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, Art Direction, Lighting Director, Director of Photography, Special Effects
• 1987The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo — Kondo, Director, Director of Photography, Special Effects, Art Direction, Lighting Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
• 1986The Phantom of Regular Size — MetalMan, Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 1985Terry 100 Channels — Director
• 1979Lotus Flower, Fly! — Screenplay, Visual Effects, Producer, Editor, Director
• 1978New Wings — Editor, Producer, Visual Effects, Screenplay, Director
• 1977Flying in a Hell Town Piss Lodge — Screenplay, Visual Effects, Producer, Editor, Director
• 1976Cloudy — Screenplay, Editor, Visual Effects, Producer, Director
• 1975Story of a Giant Cockroach — Director, Visual Effects, Screenplay, Producer, Art Direction, Director of Photography, Editor
• 1975Wings — Screenplay, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer, Art Direction
• 1974Genshi-san — Editor, Director, Producer, Screenplay

Appearances as themselves (14)

• 2024In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 — Self
• 2023Hideo Kojima: Connecting Worlds — Self
• Lost Man Found — Himself
• 2020In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self
• 2020Japanese Cinema's Provocateur Extraordinaire: Shinya Tsukamoto — Self
• 2015Metal Gear Solid: Legacy — Self
• 2013An Interview with Shinya Tsukamoto — Self
• 2013Ichi the Killer - Behind the Scenes — Self
• 2013Ichi the Killer - Making Of — Self
• 2011Kurosawa's Way — Self
• 2007Eli on Ichi — Self
• 2004Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! — Self
• 2003Basic Tsukamoto — Self
• 2000Making of Gemini — Self