Yudai Yamaguchi
1971 (53 года)てばなとめいたんてい~雄大祭~
Yudai Yamaguchi
TAK∴, Hidetoshi Ezawa
From prominent Japanese filmmaker Yudai Yamaguchi comes this off-the-wall anthology of three experimental vignettes showcasing the style and wit that are the director's stock-in-trade. Recorded on digital video, these genre-bending short films -- starring then up-and-comer Tak Sakaguchi -- are awash with farce, Yamaguchi's pubescent sense of humor and electrifying rock 'n' roll.
Tebana Sankichi: Snot Rocket & Super Detective
非女子図鑑
Yoshihiro Fukagawa, Renpei Tsukamoto
Rika Adachi, Jiji Bû
This is an omnibus of six short films by six different directors, whose lead characters are unconventional women. They are "Hijoshi," females who live true to themselves and their desires.
An Encyclopedia of Unconventional Women
ユメ十夜
Nobuhiro Yamashita, Kon Ichikawa
Kyoko Koizumi, Suzuki Matsuo
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Ten Nights of Dreams
HiGH&LOW: The Red Rain
Yudai Yamaguchi
Takahiro, Hiroomi Tosaka
The Amamiya Brothers, Masaki (Takahiro) and Hiroto (Hiroomi Tosaka), keep looking for their older brother Takeru (Takumi Saito) who disappeared one year ago. The three Amamiya brothers lost their parents when they were young. Since then, they relied only on each other. On the anniversary of their parents' death, Masaki and Hiroto expect Takeru to appear. Instead, they meet a person who has a clue on Takeru's whereabouts.
HiGH&LOW: The Red Rain
魁!!クロマティ高校 THE★MOVIE
Yudai Yamaguchi
Takamasa Suga, TAK∴
When a good student named Kamiyama gets placed in a high school filled with disobedient kids, he steps up to the plate and takes a position of leadership. Urging the young slackers and rebels to clean up their act, Kamiyama is in store for a lot of resistance.
Cromartie High School: The Movie
激情版 エリートヤンキー三郎
Yudai Yamaguchi
Hideo Ishiguro, Riki Takeuchi
Saburo Okouchi (Hideo Ishiguro), is your somewhat shy, but otherwise average, teen entering high school. Unfortunately for Saburo, his two older brothers left a looming legacy at the high school. His brothers were legendary troublemakers and now Saburo takes the crown of "elite yankee."
Elite Yankee Saburo
Meatball Machine
Jun'ichi Yamamoto, Yudai Yamaguchi
Issey Takahashi, Aoba Kawai
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Meatball Machine
地獄甲子園
Yudai Yamaguchi
TAK∴, Atsushi Ito
Battlefield Baseball is a tough game — it doesn't end until all the members on the opposing team are dead. In this game the Gedo High team is composed of blue-faced zombies, and their opponents on the Seido High team know they don't have a chance at beating them unless they can bring back a star pitcher who has a lethal pitch called the Super Tornado, but who has hung up his cleats and has no desire to return to the game.
Battlefield Baseball
ロクロク
Yudai Yamaguchi
Miho Nakanishi, Shiho
A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.
Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch
Abductee
Yudai Yamaguchi
Yôichi Nukumizu, Maari
Mister Chiba awakens in a container, tied up with a plastic bag over his head. When he manages to free himself, he finds a mobile phone, a light stick and a strange black stone. A number is tattooed on the inside of his wrist. From the way the container shakes can be deduced that Chiba is transported first in a truck and then on a ship. And he’s not the only one. People are trapped in the containers next to him as well, about a hundred in total. What is the purpose of this forced journey?
Abductee
DEADBALL デッドボール
Yudai Yamaguchi
TAK∴, Mari Hoshino
Baseball prodigy Jubeh Yakyu is the most feared and dangerous juvenile delinquent in all of Japan. After accidentally causing the death of his father with a super-powered, deadly fireball pitch, Jubeh swore off baseball and became a criminal and now, at 17, has been sent to the Pterodactyl Juvenile Reformatory for hardened criminals. Headmistress Ishihara, the granddaughter of a World War II Nazi collaborator, runs the institution with an iron fist and the enthusiastic help of her sadistic assistant, Ilsa. After arriving at the hellhole, Jubeh soon learns from governor Mifune that his long-lost, younger brother Musashi had also done time there after a murder spree, but had since died mysteriously…
Deadball
Akanbo shôjo
Yudai Yamaguchi
Atsuko Asano, Etsuko Ikuta
A beautiful girl, Yōko, gets lost one night during an air raid and is taken in by an orphanage. Eventually, she is reunited with her own family and goes home to live with them. But there, an unexpected fate awaits her as she is subjected to horrific brutality from these people who are tortured by a past mistake.
Tamami: The Baby's Curse
極道兵器
TAK∴, Yudai Yamaguchi
TAK∴, Jun Murakami
After four years overseas, Shozo returns to Japan to avenge his yakuza boss who was assassinated by his own treacherous top man, Kurawaki. The resulting battle leaves both men severely injured, and Shozo awakens in a mysterious medical facility to find his arm replaced with an M61 Vulcan cannon and his leg replaced with a rocket launcher. Meanwhile, Kurawaki has been fitted with mechanical augmentations of his own. Get ready for the second round.
Yakuza Weapon
楳図かずお恐怖劇場 プレゼント
Yudai Yamaguchi
Seiko Iwaido, Takamasa Suga
A bunch of happy students enjoying themselves at a Christmas party until a sadistic Santa Claus comes and interrupts the festivities. Spruce Green becomes blood red when the plot is different from the naughty children they please.
Kazuo Umezz's Horror Theater: Present
The ABCs of Death
Ben Wheatley, Jason Eisener
Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Erik Audé
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
The ABCs of Death
