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Native name
  
塚本晋也

Role
  
Film director

Years active
  
1989–present

Books
  
鉄男 THE BULLET MAN

Website
  
塚本晋也 Official Website

Siblings
  
Koji Tsukamoto

Name
  
Shinya Tsukamoto


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Born
  
January 1, 1960 (age 64) (
1960-01-01
)
Tokyo, Japan

Occupation
  
Director, producer, writer, and actor

Awards
  
Orizzonti Award for Best Film, Special Orizzonti Jury Prize

Nominations
  
Golden Lion, Grand Jury Prize

Movies
  
Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Fires on the Plain, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, A Snake of June

Similar People
  
Tomorowo Taguchi, Takashi Miike, Cocco, Chu Ishikawa, Tadanobu Asano

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Shinya Tsukamoto (塚本 晋也, Tsukamoto Shin'ya, born January 1, 1960) is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad, best known for the body horror/cyberpunk films Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992). Other films of his include Tokyo Fist (1995), Bullet Ballet (1998) and A Snake of June (2002).

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Biography

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Tsukamoto began making films at age 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. His cinematic influences included Akira Kurosawa. He made a number of films, ranging from 10-minute shorts to 2-hour features, until his first year at college when he temporarily lost interest in filmmaking. Tsukamoto then started up a theatre group, which soon included Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka and Tomorowo Taguchi, all of whom would continue to work with Tsukamoto up through the filming of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

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One of their theatre productions at this time was The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy. At the end of production, Tsukamoto did not want to waste all the effort they had put into building the set, so he decided to shoot a film version.

Tsukamoto's early films, The Phantom of Regular Size (1986) and The Adventures Of Electric Rod Boy (1987), were short subject science fiction films shot on color 8 mm film that led to his black & white 16 mm feature Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Tsukamoto has stated he has a love-hate relationship with Tokyo, and in the end the characters (Tsukamoto and Taguchi) set out to destroy it. Tetsuo is considered one of the prime examples of Japanese cyberpunk.

Tsukamoto's next film, Hiruko the Goblin, was a more conventional horror film, about demons being unleashed from the gates of hell. He then created a follow-up to Tetsuo, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992), which revisited many of the same themes as the first but with a bigger budget and shot in color on 35 mm film. As a result, the film is often interpreted more as a companion piece than a true sequel. In Body Hammer, the son of a salaryman (Taguchi) is kidnapped by a group of thugs, who then force the man's nascent rage to make him mutate into a gigantic human weapon. Tokyo Fist (1995) again dealt with the idea of rage as a transformative force (similar to David Cronenberg's The Brood [1979]). Here, a meek insurance salesman (Tsukamoto) discovers that an old friend of his, now a semi-professional boxer, may be having an affair with his fiancée. The salesman then enters into a rigorous and self-destructive boxing training program to get even.

In Bullet Ballet (1998), a man (Tsukamoto) discovers that his longtime girlfriend committed suicide with a gun, and becomes obsessed with getting a gun just like that one. His single minded behavior causes him to run afoul of a gang of thugs, especially when he shows interest in the young girl who is one of their compatriots. Gemini (1999) was an adaptation of an Edogawa Rampo story, in which a country doctor with pretensions of superiority has his life torn apart when another man who appears to be his exact duplicate enters his life. Things are complicated further by the twin taking control of his wife, an amnesiac with a criminal background. A Snake of June (2002) once again found Tsukamoto employing the formula of two men in competition for one woman, as a young lady is blackmailed into perverse sexual behavior against her husband's will—until her husband finds that he enjoys the blackmail more than the blackmailer does.

Vital (2004) again features a love triangle, this time consisting of two women and one man. The story concerns a young man whose girlfriend is killed in a car crash whilst being driven by him. He is a medical student and is given her body to dissect in class (whether by coincidence or intentionally is not clear). Tsukamoto also acted in and directed the short film Haze in 2005. In 2006, Tsukamoto directed the horror thriller Nightmare Detective (2006). The film centers around a vagrant with the supernatural ability to enter the dreams of others and a police officer who pleads with him to help her solve a series of bizarre murders committed by a serial killer (Tsukamoto) with a similar ability.

Tsukamoto acts in nearly all of his films, with the exception of those that he worked on as a "director for hire" (namely Hiruko the Goblin and Gemini). Tsukamoto has appeared in many other directors' films as well, such as Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000), and Ichi the Killer (2001), as well as Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast vs. Dwarf (2001). He was the lead actor in Takashi Shimizu's Marebito (2004), and appeared more recently in Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007), Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla (2016) and Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016).

He is also a successful voiceover artist for TV advertising in Japan. He also provided the Japanese voice of Vamp in the 2008 PlayStation 3 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (a character previously voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty).

Awards

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  • The Adventures of Electric Rod Boy – PIA Film Fest (Japan) – Grand Prize
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man – Fantafestival (Italy) – Grand Prize
  • Tetsuo: The Iron Man – Sweden Fantastic Film Festival – Audience Award Best Feature
  • Hiruko the Goblin – Fantasporto – Best Film
  • Tetsuo II: Body Hammer – Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film – Silver Raven
  • Tetsuo II: Body Hammer – Fantasporto – International Fantasy Film Special Jury Award
  • Tetsuo II: Body Hammer – 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival (1992)
  • Tokyo Fist – Sundance (Tokyo) – Grand Prize
  • Bullet Ballet – Sweden Fantastic Film Festival – Jury Grand Prize
  • Gemini – Neuchatel International Fantasy Film Festival – Best International Film
  • A Snake of June – Venice Film Festival – Kinematrix Film Award Feature Films
  • A Snake of June – Venice Film Festival – San Marco Special Jury Award
  • Vital – Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film – Silver Raven
  • Vital – Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival – New Visions Award
  • Vital – Fantasporto – Orient Express Section Special Jury Award
  • Kotoko – The Orizzonti prize at the 68th Venice International Film Festival (2011)
  • Films

  • Tōkyō Biyori (1997)
  • Wait and See (1998)
  • Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000)
  • Ichi the Killer (2001)
  • Blind Beast vs. Dwarf (2002)
  • Marebito (2004)
  • Otakus in Love (2004)
  • Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
  • Shin Godzilla (2016)
  • Silence (2016)
  • Scoop! (2016)
  • Television

  • Saka no ue no kumo (2009–2011), Akashi Motojiro
  • GeGeGe no Nyōbō (2010)
  • Carnation (2012)
  • Tokyo Trial (2016), Michio Takeyama
  • References

    Shinya Tsukamoto Wikipedia