Directing

Kunitoshi Manda

Film director, screenwriter and critic. Born 1956.

Known For

Kandagawa Pervert WarsKandagawa Pervert Wars · 1983
Kandagawa Pervert Wars
5.11983
MovieComedyDrama
Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one of the young women ends up falling in love with the son despite having a boyfriend and enjoying sex with her female companion. Of course, the mother they are warring against has her own plans when she feels her privacy invaded.
Bumpkin SoupBumpkin Soup · 1985
Bumpkin Soup
5.31985
MovieMusicComedy
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.
Yamato NadeshikoYamato Nadeshiko · 1998
Yamato Nadeshiko
1998
MovieRomance
The story of a young woman working in a bar, trying to get men to spend extra on her services.
UnlovedUnloved · 2001
Unloved
7.42001
MovieDrama
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".
Damned Files 8Damned Files 8 · 2004
Damned Files 8
8.02004
MovieHorror
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.
OmokageOmokage · 2010
Omokage
2010
Movie
The TunnelThe Tunnel · 2004
The Tunnel
2004
MovieDrama
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.
Love MooningLove Mooning · 2021
Love Mooning
7.02021
MovieDramaRomance
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….

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Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from TokyoKai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo · 2010
Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo
4.22010
MovieHorror
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.