Shinya Tsukamoto
Japanese film director and actor · Japan · On the map · Directors · Born 1960 · age 66
He welded flesh to metal and made it scream. Tsukamoto's Tetsuo: The Iron Man turned body horror into cyberpunk nightmare and defined a movement - one that reached from Tokyo underground to the Wachowskis, Fincher, and Aronofsky.
Shinya Tsukamoto is read about 602 times a day, in 17 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?Film, Director, Writer2024
Shin Kamen Rider: Episode Format VersionSeries, Hiroshi Midorikawa2023
Hana Sugisaki's Filming BreakSeries, restaurant owner
Hideo Kojima: Connecting WorldsFilm, 20232022
Lost Man FoundSeries, Himself2020
In Search of Darkness: Part IIFilm2018
deleSeries2016
Over the FenceFilm, Satoshi's Father (voice)2013
Venice 70: Future ReloadedFilm, Director2010
Kaidan Horror ClassicsSeries, Director, Writer
Tetsuo: The Bullet ManFilm, 2010Director, Writer2009Time Machine AwardAward
Clouds Over the HillSeries, 2009明石元二郎2007
Sexy Voice and RoboSeries, Takeo Hayashi
Nightmare DetectiveFilm, 2007Director, Writer2004
MarebitoFilm, Masuoka2002
The Private Detective MikeSeries2001
Blind Beast vs Killer DwarfFilm1999
GeminiFilm, Director, Writer1995
The Stairway to the Distant PastFilm, Yamaguchi1992
Tetsuo II: Body HammerFilm, Director, Writer1989
Tetsuo: The Iron ManFilm, Director, Writer1986
The Phantom of Regular SizeFilm, Director, Writer1960Born1 January 1960People around Shinya
Close ties
Tadanobu Asano Duets: Kogoro Akechi
Chu Ishikawa Wrote Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1992)
Tomorowo Taguchi Shinya produced Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1992)
Naoto Takenaka Shinya directed Tokyo Fist and Hiruko the Goblin
Suzuki Matsuo Directed Welcome to the Quiet Room (2007)
Tatsuya Nakamura Shinya produced Bullet Ballet and Killing
Ken Mitsuishi Shinya directed Nightmare Detective (2006)
Kei Fujiwara Shinya directed Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1992)
Takashi Miike Directed Ichi the Killer (2001)
Ryūhei Matsuda Shinya directed Nightmare Detective (2006)
Lily Franky Also in Fires on the Plain and Scoop!
Hideaki Anno Also in Otakus in Love (2004)
Yu Aoi Shinya directed Killing (2018)
Ren Ōsugi Shinya directed Nightmare Detective (2006)
Masahiro Motoki Duets: Kogoro Akechi
Jun Kunimura Shinya directed Vital (2004)
Renji Ishibashi Shinya directed Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Gemini
Shungicu Uchida Shinya directed Nightmare Detective (2006)
Yūko Nakamura Shinya directed Fires on the Plain (2014)
Miwako Ichikawa Shinya directed Nightmare Detective (2006)
Hatsune Matsushima Shinya directed Nightmare Detective (2006)
Martin Scorsese Directed Silence (2017)
Mikako Ichikawa Also in Travail and Shin Godzilla
Asuka Kurosawa Shinya produced A Snake of June (2002)
Known for
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Shin Godzilla 2016
Kotoko 2011
Killing 2018
Silence 2016
Bullet Ballet 1998
Filmography 40
240 credits on file
Television 8
Media & music
Photos 2
Awards
About this person
Born January 1, 1960, Tsukamoto came up through Japanese independent film and in 1989 released Tetsuo: The Iron Man, a lo-fi fever dream of transformation that became the defining work of Japanese Cyberpunk. He followed it with Tetsuo II: Body Hammer in 1992 and closed the trilogy with Tetsuo: The Bullet Man in 2009, while building a wider filmography - Tokyo Fist in 1995, Bullet Ballet in 1998, A Snake of June in 2002, Vital in 2004, Kotoko in 2011, Killing in 2018. He stars in nearly everything he makes and has crossed over to act for Scorsese, Miike, and Anno. The cult following holds in Japan and abroad, the influence traceable in Tarantino, the Wachowskis, Fincher, Aronofsky - filmmakers who learned something from the way he fused human tissue with machine dread.
