Directing

Kunitoshi Manda

Tokyo, Japan

Film director, screenwriter and critic. Born 1956.

Acting credits

Masters of Killing poster
NR

A secretive assassin collective is formed with a single purpose: to eradicate absolute evil from the world. Their final target, however, turns out to be their own leader. As loyalties collapse, a brutal showdown erupts—killer against killer in a fight to the death.

Masters of Killing

2006

Yamato Nadeshiko poster
NR

The story of a young woman working in a bar, trying to get men to spend extra on her services.

Yamato Nadeshiko

1998

The Soup of Heaven poster
NR

Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.

The Soup of Heaven

2008

Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo poster
4.2

Tsukimono - Ayumi Kirishima is a college student who has just completed her second interview with a prospective employer. Ayumi then takes a bus to get to class and comes across a creepy barefooted woman. When the woman startes shaking and hiccuping, Ayumi asks the woman if she is OK. The woman responds with a cryptic remark that hastens Ayumi's departure off the bus. Later that day, the creepy woman appears in front of a window in Ayumi's classroom. All the students become startled by her appearance... Nozomi - The memory of high school student Megumi Fujisawa's 11th birthday still haunts her to this day. On her 11th birthday, Megumi's younger sister Nozomi was found dead. Her younger sister drowned in a lake surrounded by the woods. Since her death, whenever Megumi's birthday approaches she experiences illusions and refuses to go to school. Those illusions attacks Megumi and becomes more fierce.

Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo

2010

No artwork available
8.0

A young woman trying to break out of her monotonous routine.

Yorokobi

2001

No artwork available
NR

Japanese mystery film made in 2003.

ENCLOSURE

2005

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi poster
5.0

The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring Hello! Project's No. 1 idol, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. The terror unfolds as it preys on a high school girl who has closed her heart due to her sister's death.

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi

2010

Kind Daughter poster
NR

In a forest at the edge of the country, a group of girls disappear one by one. Inspired by slavic folk tales.

Kind Daughter

1982

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fangs Crazy for White Skin

1977

Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age poster
NR

Aoyama Shinji’s Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day landscapes, newsreels, and photographs of Emperor Shōwa as well as of Kōtoku Shūsui and Sugako Kanno, who were executed in the High Treason Incident, with readings of texts by Nakano Shigeharu (Five-Shao of Sake, Shinagawa Station in the Rain) and Natsume Sōseki (Recollections).

Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age

2001

Behind the camera

Bumpkin Soup poster
5.3

Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her beloved Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Bumpkin Soup

1985

Deka Matsuri poster
NR

12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"

Deka Matsuri

2003

Unloved poster
7.4

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".

Unloved

2001

Unloved poster
7.4

Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".

Unloved

2001

The Tunnel poster
NR

A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother.

The Tunnel

2004

The Tunnel poster
NR

A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother.

The Tunnel

2004

The Kiss poster
6.6

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

The Kiss

2007

The Kiss poster
6.6

One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.

The Kiss

2007

Omokage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Omokage

2010

Love Mooning poster
7.0

Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….

Love Mooning

2021

Love Mooning poster
7.0

Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….

Love Mooning

2021

Synchronizer poster
NR

TAKASHI Hasegawa is conducting unauthorized research on how to synchronize brainwaves of humans and animals. One day, he thinks he may be able to cure his mother with dementia in this way.

Synchronizer

2017

Damned Files 5 poster
8.0

This is the fifth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete episodes produced based on actual stories and accidents.

Damned Files 5

2004

Damned Files 8 poster
8.0

This is the eighth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted spots, real-life stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region.

Damned Files 8

2004

Damned Files 6 poster
8.0

This is the sixth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete stories based on rumored haunted spots, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in Nagoya and other areas in the Tokai region.

Damned Files 6

2004

Damned Files 3 poster
8.0

This is the third volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003. Included are "Apartment in Chikusa-ku", "Love Hotel in Ichinomiya-ku", and four other episodes.

Damned Files 3

2004

Damned Files 4 poster
8.0

This is the fourth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV from July 2003.

Damned Files 4

2004

Arigatou poster
NR

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

Arigatou

2006

Arigatou poster
NR

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.

Arigatou

2006

Damned Files 7 poster
8.0

This is the seventh volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region.

Damned Files 7

2004

Damned Files 0 poster
8.0

Takashi and his wife Misako, who lost their beloved son in a trapeze accident, have never recovered from the shock, and have kept the urn in their bedroom because they do not want to leave their son's ashes. One day, the couple hears that they can see their son if they go to the old Isejin Tunnel.

Damned Files 0

2004

Damned Files 2 poster
8.0

This is the second volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003.

Damned Files 2

2004

The New Seven Lines Between Things poster
NR

An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity.

The New Seven Lines Between Things

1983

Damned Files 1 poster
8.0

This is the first volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003.

Damned Files 1

2004