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Tetsuya Nakashima
Born September 2, 1959 · Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan (age 66)
Tetsuya Nakashima is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was born in Fukuoka, attending high school in Chikushino. His 2010 film Confessions was awarded Best Picture at the Japanese Academy Awards, where Nakashima was also awarded Director of the Year and Screenplay of the Year.
Known For
Confessions · 2010Confessions
★ 7.62010
MovieDramaThriller
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
The World of Kanako · 2014The World of Kanako
★ 6.42014
MovieMysteryCrime
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her. As his investigation progresses, his idealized image of Kanako cracks: the girl hides a dark life that her father can not even imagine.
Kamikaze Girls · 2004Kamikaze Girls
★ 7.12004
MovieComedy
Momoko, a strange and seemingly emotionless girl obsessed with 18th century France, befriends a Yanki biker and the two experience the ups and downs of their unusual lives in a rural Japanese town.
Memories of Matsuko · 2006Memories of Matsuko
★ 7.82006
MovieComedyDrama
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
It Comes · 2018It Comes
★ 6.42018
MovieMysteryDrama
To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination.
I Am Searching For Myself · 2014I Am Searching For Myself
2014
MovieDocumentary
Interview with actress Nana Komatsu on her debut film "The World of Kanako".

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The Brightest Sun · 2026The Brightest Sun
2026
MovieDrama
When a private detective is murdered, a former colleague and a trainee detective are sent to investigate. Along the way, they uncover a tragic truth that triggers memories from their own haunted pasts.
Lalapipo · 2009Lalapipo
★ 5.62009
MovieDramaComedy
Adapted from a sex-stuffed cult novel, LALAPIPO (a play on the phrase “A Lot of People”) follows divergent seedy strands of sexual and narrative spaghetti through the sticky Tokyo night. There’s a chubby freelance writer who’s so obsessed with masturbating to the sound of his upstairs neighbors going at it that he forgets to deal with his own love life and when he finally does have sex he is immediately filled with self-loathing. The upstairs neighbor’s story then splits off like an amoeba: she’s an office lady seduced by a “talent scout” who is falling down the sex industry ladder, moving from hostess, to massage girl, to private karaoke attendant. The talent scout’s story then splits off and runs in its own direction, revealing the sorry state of this young pimp’s soul. From there, the movie takes more and more time to consider the lives of more and more characters until the entire Japanese sex industry is filled with the wailing of lost souls.
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