Yasutaka Tsutsui

Writing

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Born 1934-09-24 · Osaka, Japan

Yasutaka Tsutsui is a Japanese novelist, science fiction author, and actor. His Yumenokizaka bunkiten won the Tanizaki Prize in 1987. He has also won the 1981 Izumi Kyoka award, the 1989 Kawabata Yasunari award, and the 1992 Nihon SF Taisho Award.

Acting credits

Paprika poster
7.8

Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stolen, she must stop rogue elements from merging the dream and waking worlds.

Paprika

2006

Gemini poster
6.5

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Gemini

1999

Jam Films poster
7.9

Jam Films is a 2002 suite of 7 shorts produced by Sega/Amuse.

Jam Films

2002

The Man with Two Hearts poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Man with Two Hearts

1996

Desire poster
5.0

Yokubo from director Tetsuo Shinohara is based off of the award-winning love story by Mariko Koike. A young man searching for physical comfort and dumb lust, and the world-weary woman drowning in a sea of men that works with him. This is a fantastic new film from a remarkably skilled cast about "the beauty of sensualism."

Desire

2005

Ki no ue no sogyo poster
8.0

A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.

Ki no ue no sogyo

1997

Hakuchi: The Innocent poster
6.0

In a future where World War II never ended, Japan is decimated by nightly bombings. The only building left standing is known as the Media Station, a broadcasting center responsible for all of Japan's entertainment.

Hakuchi: The Innocent

1999

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso poster
9.0

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

1989

School Day of the Dead poster
5.4

Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally stumble over some information about the legend, and the girl who commited suicide. Shortly after, the girls start turning up dead in seeming accidents.

School Day of the Dead

2000

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies poster
4.6

Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies.

Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies

2001

No artwork available
7.0

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of Shin'ya Tsukamoto's film "Gemini".

Making of Gemini

2000

Oyaji poster
10.0

Surrounded by violence for as long as he can remember, Ryoudo Numata has steeled himself into a tremendously tough man, growing to become the very essence of "manliness" himself in order to live his life in peace. When members of a yakuza clan set on fire to his house to facilitate a real estate transaction, Kumada murders them and gets jailed for it. 15 years later, finally free, he will now have to reconnect with his family who clearly are in disarray due his long absence and face the distrust of his children who know nothing of their father except that he had abandoned them.

Oyaji

2007

Red Fate poster
NR

A 2005 remake of the 1976 TV original.

Red Fate

2005

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? poster
7.4

A.D. 2015: A virus spreads in many cities globally, a suicidal disease infected by pictures. Once infected, the diseased will soon meet death. They have no way of fighting back, filled with fear and despair. The media calls it the 'Lemming Syndrome'.

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

2005

The World Sinks Except Japan poster
5.9

In the year 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind has occurred. As a result of the catastrophic earthquakes North and South America, Eurasia, Africa and Australia have sunken underwater while the Japanese islands remain untouched.

The World Sinks Except Japan

2006

Tsutsui and Kon's Paprika poster
NR

The making of anime "Paprika" (2006), focusing on its adaptation from Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.

Tsutsui and Kon's Paprika

2007

Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special poster
NR

Hosted by veteran comedian Tamori, "Bizarre Tales 2003 Fall Special" presents five tales. 1. *Kagi (The Key) - starring Eguchi Yosuke. 2. Perfect Couple - starring Yada Akiko. 3. Toosugita Otoko (The Man Who Was Too Far Away) - starring Nakamura Shido. 4. Meiro (The Maze)- starring Tanihara Shosuke. 5. Kage ga Omonaru Toki (When Shadows Accumulate) - starring Yashima Norito. * Adapted from a novel by Tsutsui Yasutaka.

Tales of the Bizarre: 2003 Fall Special

2003

Star poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Star

1986

Behind the camera