11 Facts About Jon Moritsugu

Jon Moritsugu was born on February 15,1965 and is an American cult-underground filmmaker and musician.

Jon Moritsugu's movies are satiric, protopunk deconstructions of popular genres and formats with scabrous and pointedly garish results.

Jon Moritsugu started filmmaking in high school in the early 1980s and then attended Brown University, where he studied semiotics and critical theory.

Top indie label Matador Records was to release the movie's soundtrack, but after numerous and lengthy delays, Jon Moritsugu terminated the deal.

In late 1999 Jon Moritsugu started work on his next feature, Scumrock, produced by Andrea Sperling.

In 2010, Jon Moritsugu began production on his seventh feature, Pig Death Machine.

In spring 2011 and in the middle of Pig Death Machine post-production, Jon Moritsugu directed with Davis a music video for the song "No Future Shock" by Brooklyn rock band TV on the Radio.

Later that year, Jon Moritsugu wrote and directed his first fashion video lookbook.

I'd rather be spit on by Jon Moritsugu than kissed by 95 percent of the directors out there.

In September 2016, an exhibition of seven Jon Moritsugu features opened at the Ramiken Crucible in NYC.

Jon Moritsugu fronted a punk band with Andy Matinog and Mike Masatsugu called, No-No Boy, after the novel by John Okada.