Makoto Tezuka
Directing
Biography
Japanese film and anime director, son of Osamu Tezuka.
Born: August 11, 1961
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Akio Jissoji’s Museum of Wonders - Volume of Thoughts
A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!
Onyanko the Movie - One Shot Crisis!
The story revolves around a hardcore Onyanko Club fanatic who decides he wants to kill the girls to prevent the young, cute idols from getting old and married - in a sense, to preserve their youth for eternity.
Wakako Zake
Murasaki Wakako, who is 26 years old, loves going out alone to enjoy eating and drinking, especially when something unpleasant happens at work. Thie show follows Wakako through many solitary outings, where she enjoys different combinations of food and drink!
Labyrinth of Cinema
When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.
Midori: The Camellia Girl
14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.
School in the Crosshairs
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
Burst City
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla
During World War II, the Japanese military established a secret underground laboratory in Tokyo. Three Olympic-level athletes were selected to undergo a process that would turn them into Jinra-go, superhuman armored soldiers. By March 1945, one of the soldiers had been completely transformed into the half man/half machine ultimate soldier called Mikadroid. But American B-29s firebomb the city and, while the two super soldiers manage to escape, Mikadroid and the lab are apparently destroyed. 45 years pass, Tokyo is rebuilt, and old secrets are forgotten. The site is now home to a complex that includes the Discoclub Layla. The disco’s patrons dance late into the night, unaware that a faulty basement generator has reactivated Mikadroid and the cyborg now prowls the basement levels, killing anyone in its path...
Jam Films 2
Jam Films 2 features 4 short films by different Japanese directors.
ORANGING'79
With the camera in love between them, the real Mayumi Mitome and the Mayumi in the film are in honest agreement, and there is a freshness to the film that leaves no room for the viewer to question or feel any directorial intent. In the last part of the film, Mayumi arrives at the beach of Enoshima and says, "I'm going to America to swim in this film," and as she changes into a bathing suit and jumps into the sea, she says, "She really went to America. When she changed into her bathing suit and jumped into the sea, the narrator said, "She really went to America, don't you believe me? The film is symbolized by her reply to the camera, "Yes!
Filmography
as Film Director
as Poetry Reading
as Military Police Officer C
as Special Guest
as X-Man
as House Guest
as Masahiko Arikawa