Shinya Tsukamoto is a Japanese filmmaker and actor.
16 Facts About Shinya Tsukamoto
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Shinya Tsukamoto has been cited as an influence on popular western filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Darren Aronofsky and The Wachowskis.
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Shinya Tsukamoto began making films at age 14, when his father gave him a Super 8 camera.
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Shinya Tsukamoto 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.
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Shinya 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 Shinya Tsukamoto up through the filming of Tetsuo: The Iron Man.
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Shinya Tsukamoto has stated he has a love-hate relationship with Tokyo, and in the end the characters set out to destroy it.
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Shinya Tsukamoto's next film, Hiruko the Goblin, was a more conventional horror film, about demons being unleashed from the gates of hell.
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Shinya Tsukamoto is a medical student and is given her body to dissect in class.
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Shinya Tsukamoto acted in and directed the short film Haze in 2005.
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In 2006, Shinya Tsukamoto directed the horror thriller Nightmare Detective.
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Shinya Tsukamoto has appeared in many other directors' films as well, such as Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive 2: Birds, and Ichi the Killer, as well as Teruo Ishii's Blind Beast vs Dwarf.
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Shinya Tsukamoto was the lead actor in Takashi Shimizu's Marebito, and appeared more recently in Welcome to the Quiet Room, Hideaki Anno's Shin Godzilla and Martin Scorsese's Silence.
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Shinya Tsukamoto is a successful voiceover artist for TV advertising in Japan.
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Shinya Tsukamoto provided the Japanese voice of Vamp in the 2008 PlayStation 3 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
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Shinya Tsukamoto was originally set to play the character in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty but was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts, so Ryotaro Okiayu was assigned the role instead.
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Shinya Tsukamoto was a member of the jury at the Venice International Film Festival in 1997 and 2019.