Hajime Kanda

Movies

The Fish with One Sleeve
Director of Photography
A trans woman works and lives in Tokyo with colleagues who understand her, but there remains an underlying lack of confidence and feeling of unfulfillment. She makes the decision to contact an old classmate from her high school days when returning home on a business trip, hoping that they will see her for the person she is now.
ZOKKI
Director of Photography
Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.
Fancy
Director
Set in a spa town, Akira Takasu (Masatoshi Nagase) is a carver and a mailman. He keeps in touch with poet Penguin (Masataka Kubota). Penguin has a female fan with the name of Moonlit Night's Star (Sakurako Konishi). She sends letters to Penguin. One day, the female fan appears in front of Akira Takasu and Penguin. These three somehow get involved in a battle between the yakuza.
Brothers in Brothel
Director of Photography
During some era, on an island that exists somewhere in Japan, there are people who exist there who feel confined. Idle days pass for men and women unable to connect, and women who can not grasp the importance of such connections.
Girl's Play
Director of Photography
Three days before a cultural festival, reliable heroine Hikari Sasaki suddenly quits the club. Left behind in the theater club are four sensitive girls, Saya Honjo, Aoi Fujisaki, Kurumi Nakahara and Mika Shinoda. The girls have relied on Hikari for such a long time, and are at a loss, with none of them interested in being the next heroine. Nobody has any desire to be a candidate, but without a leader for the theater club the manager Saya has the idea of having a secret ballot. But the result of the vote produces a shocking development.
Stray Dogz 5
Director of Photography
In the past, Tukasa entered numerous fake marriages and divorces to steal money from loan sharks. He has many records of marriage and divorce on his family register. One day, Tukasa ,who is working for loan shark company “Last Finance,” receives a phone call from a loan company. The loan company tells Tukasa that his wife on his family register borrowed money from them and ran away. As her husband, he is now liable for his wife's debt. Tukasa finds himself in a difficult situation. At that time, Tukasa’s boss Tadaomy assigns a new client to Tukasa. Tukasa’s new client is Mitsuo. Mitsuo takes care of jos mother with Alzheimer’s. He works as a contract employee for an air conditioner installer and is experiencing financial difficulties.
Stray Dogz 4
Director of Photography
When a friend from his yakuza past gets released from prison, a loan shark and his former-male-host sidekick help the ex-con get back on his feet.
Maniac Hero
Director of Photography
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
The Virgin Psychics
Director of Photography
After receiving a cosmic blast while masturbating, a virginal teenager gains psychic powers and joins a group of ESP virgins in order to defend the world from evil psychics.
Yakuza Apocalypse
Director of Photography
Akira admires Genyo Kamiura, the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but he has never been killed. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treat him like an idiot, and Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. An assassin is sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire. Thus begins the apocalypse.
Z
Director of Photography
A pandemic causes a massive outbreak of zombies. Several uninfected people take refuge in a hospital to evade the reanimated ghouls that keep attacking even if they are split in half by a sharp blade, but become increasingly paranoid. Will they be able to survive?
GACHI-BAN: SUPREMACY 2
Cinematography
High school dropout Leo gets a visit from his deadbeat father, who tells him to become a student in order to reap the benefits of financial aid. Along with his acquaintance Kokoa, he enrolls in night classes at Kinugasa High. Although, he is unaware of the fact that this school is the former home of the infamous “Black Skull Gang”, headed by none other than Monji Mori...
GACHI-BAN: SUPREMACY
Cinematography
Sixteenth coming-of-age action film depicting delinquents fighting each other. Two youths who are eternal rivals reunite in an unexpected fashion. Motoki Takashi has helmed the series since the third film. Kinugasa High School top dog Monji (Sano Kazuya) fails to find a successor and gets held back twice. Yuto (Kubota Masataka), who used to exchange blows with Monji, finds employment but gets fired due to his poor academic skills. Painfully aware of the importance of studying, Yuto transfers into the evening class at Kinugasa High School without knowing that Monji is there.
Undertaker
Cinematography
The dead return to life as cruel predators - the so-called "returners" have spread all over the world. Only a few survivors succeeded in escaping from this madness. They are submerged in remote areas, because the cities were completely occupied by the returners. There is only one person who still daggers in the cities: the Undertaker. A dark hero, a champion of the battlefield and equipped for the world after the apocalypse, starts his own personal revenge campaign.