Yutaka Tsuchiya

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Yutaka Tsuchiya

Born December 11, 1966 (age 59)

Tsuchiya Yutaka (土屋豊, Tsuchiya Yutaka) (born 11 December 1966) is a Japanese film director, documentary film maker, and video activist. His works have focused on the search for identity amongst Japanese youth, particularly the allure that nationalism or extreme ideologies have offered to troubled young people. After producing several experimental video art pieces, Tsuchiya first came to prominenc…

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The New GodThe New God · 1999
The New God
6.11999
MovieDocumentary
After producing several experimental video art pieces, Tsuchiya first came to prominence with A New God, a personal documentary shot on video about his relationship with a right-wing, neo-nationalist punk rock band. Even though Tsuchiya is on the left, he ended up marrying the singer for that band, Karin Amamiya, who has since emerged as a spokesperson for disaffected Japanese youth in the media. The New God won an award at the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
Peep "TV" ShowPeep "TV" Show · 2005
Peep "TV" Show
5.62005
MovieDrama
As the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, peeptvshow.net begins broadcasting hidden camera footage of women and couples in their apartments at night. An aimless teenage girl comes across the site's admin in Shibuya.
GFP BUNNYGFP BUNNY · 2012
GFP BUNNY
4.12012
MovieDramaCrime
A troubled teenager only lives through her camera and the Internet. Fascinated by science, she experiments on various animals, and her own mother, poisoning her with thallium and documenting the results.
A Permanent Part-Timer in DistressA Permanent Part-Timer in Distress · 2009
A Permanent Part-Timer in Distress
2009
MovieDocumentary
The director, twenty-three-year-old Iwabuchi Hiroki, is a permanent part-timer who on weekdays does menial work at a factory for 1,250 yen an hour, and on weekends takes on casual temporary work in Tokyo, a city he is fascinated with. He joins a demonstration demanding rights for permanent part-timers, and is featured on TV as "a poor, unhappy temporary worker." Despite having made his own choice to live as a permanent part-timer, he says that "the days feel like drowning in shallow water." But during the diary-like documentation of his life, something changes...
The End of the Special Time We Were AllowedThe End of the Special Time We Were Allowed · 2013
The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed
2013
MovieDocumentary
At the age of 17, Sōta Masuda won the Rock Newcomer Award, and his future looked bright. As his high school friend, the director began filming a documentary about him. However, Sōta, who was obsessed with pursuing his rock 'n' roll dream, seemed cursed with unfulfilled aspirations. He lived off his parents for nearly a decade before ultimately taking his own life. The few words left in his suicide note were a plea to the director to complete the documentary.

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