Kou Machida

Acting

Kou Machida

Born 1962-01-15 · Sakai, Osaka, Japan

Acting credits

Mirrored Mind poster
6.9

An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.

Mirrored Mind

2005

August in the Water poster
7.1

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

August in the Water

1995

H Story poster
6.0

An autobiographical docudrama about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film "Hiroshima Mon Amour".

H Story

2001

The Black House poster
6.1

A timid insurance agent investigates a possible insurance fraud case that involves a death. As the facts are slowly revealed, he becomes progressively more frightened.

The Black House

1999

Burst City poster
6.4

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.

Burst City

1982

Endless Waltz poster
5.0

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

Endless Waltz

1995

Robinson's Garden poster
6.4

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the civilization she had already left.

Robinson's Garden

1987

Soft Skin poster
6.4

Minako, a Tokyo housewife, is depressed that everyone has an active life outside the home except her. Taking her inspiration from TV reports of a hitch-hiking chainsaw murderer, Minako decides to spice up her life by finding a young lover and running off with him by faking her kidnapping. While her family frets and worries, Minako has a wonderful time. Eventually, though, she decides it's time to go back to her family. Her lover, however, isn't ready for the fun to end, and Minako's fake kidnapping soon becomes all too real.

Soft Skin

1998

Cat City poster
NR

A fantasy world with only cats as far as the eye can see. The awe and fear a person can feel in a world that doesn't know mankind.

Cat City

2006

pierce LOVE&HATE poster
6.0

Naho repeatedly enters hotels with random men and kills them before having sex with them. A man, Manabu, stays with her and performs piercings on her breasts. One day, Naho invites a middle-aged man to a hotel as usual and tries to kill him, but ends up failing to do so.

pierce LOVE&HATE

1997

Jeonju Digital Project 2004 poster
3.0

Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai

Jeonju Digital Project 2004

2004

Romantic Mania poster
NR

A love story in the style of a psycho-thriller, depicting the relationship between a female police officer who continues to have an affair and the men who surround her, along with the progress of a bizarre incident. Due to various circumstances, the theatrical release was postponed and the work announced as OV was released to the public at a special screening at the Kamemei Painting Theater in Tokyo.

Romantic Mania

1997

Osaka Story poster
6.0

Young Wakana is the daughter of a husband and wife comedy act, who have worked together for 20 years without any big success. Wakana’s parents quarrel constantly, and her mother often threatens to leave. When one day her father disappears, Wakana sets out to find him.

Osaka Story

1999

Kumagusu poster
NR

Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.

Kumagusu

1991

Āto nanka iranai! poster
NR

A film on the meaning of art, Session 1: Kingdom of Inertia, Session 2: 4.6 Billion Years of Solitude

Āto nanka iranai!

2022

Never Mind a Little Rain poster
NR

An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others.

Never Mind a Little Rain

1984

No artwork available
5.5

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.

Atlanta Boogie

1996

Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu poster
NR

Hosono, a film director who continues to make adult videos to make a living, spends his days desperately trying to realize his own project. However, one day, driven by anxiety and impatience, he steals a script from the screenwriter's home...

Akai hankô: Yume no ato shimatsu

1997

Tomoyasu Hotei - MONSTER DRIVE PARTY!!! poster
8.0

Live DVD recorded on Zepp Tokyo on July 18, 2005

Tomoyasu Hotei - MONSTER DRIVE PARTY!!!

2005

Minato no Rokishî poster
8.0

Set in Hakodate in the summer, this is a retro-inspired coming-of-age drama about a love triangle between a sister and brother who are like lovers and a young man.

Minato no Rokishî

1999

No artwork available
5.0

The film revolves around a pornographer and several of his actors and actresses. One of the women mentions interest in setting up a scene where tampons are forcibly inserted into a girl's vagina as this kind of scene has 'never been done before.' From there the film delves into a blurry of oddball scenes consisting of penis guitar playing and women placing explosives in their lower regions.

Tampon Tango

1984