Kitao Sakurai
History
Kitao Sakurai is a writer and director, known for The Eric Andre Show (2012), Aardvark (2010) and Coda (2003).
Sakurai was born in Kinugasa Japan and was raised in Cleveland Ohio. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in films such as Kevin Smith's Dogma (1999) and Best of The Best 3 (1995). Sakurai then turned his focus towards cinematography, lensing Ry-Russo Young's You Wont Miss Me (2009) and Edwin Decena's Transformations (2006) along with countless "dirty south" hip-hop videos. in 2010 Sakurai wrote and directed Aardvark, the first narrative feature film to star a blind person. Sakurai then went on to develop and direct The Eric Andre Show, now in it's fourth season on Adult Swim.
Story
Two pals embark on a road trip full of funny pranks that pull real people into mayhem.
Director
Two pals embark on a road trip full of funny pranks that pull real people into mayhem.
Creative Consultant
The Eric Andre Show's own Kraft Punk goes to Washington DC to find the answers to all of America's burning questions by interviewing some of DC's most 'popular' politicians.
Writer
A man escapes again and again as he’s pursued by pagan cultists in this sprawling episode of sublime and humanist surrealism produced as a pilot for Adult Swim.
Director
A man escapes again and again as he’s pursued by pagan cultists in this sprawling episode of sublime and humanist surrealism produced as a pilot for Adult Swim.
Executive Producer
Hannibal Buress's first outing as a goat farmer in Moreauville, La., finds him alternately bored, grossed out, and exhausted, and his time on the line at a New Orleans diner is marked by broken eggs and dreams alike.
Director
Hannibal Buress's first outing as a goat farmer in Moreauville, La., finds him alternately bored, grossed out, and exhausted, and his time on the line at a New Orleans diner is marked by broken eggs and dreams alike.
Writer
To celebrate New Year's Eve, Eric does his talk show live in front of a studio audience.
Director
To celebrate New Year's Eve, Eric does his talk show live in front of a studio audience.
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
Darius Szopa
A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.
Writer
A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.
Director
A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.
Director of Photography
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Grip
Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.
Director
An act of violence in the shower room of a boy's prep school gets out of hand and all of the participants are traumatized.
Stygian Triplet
The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
Zenny Hata
After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother wants her to spend the summer helping Mrs. Hata, her life-long friend. But 12-year-old Rinko sees Mrs. Hata's traditional Japanese ways as being backward and "crazy." When she gives in to her mother's request, she discovers Mrs. Hata is kind and courageous, fighting to save her farm. Before summer ends, RInko comes to appreciate and defend "crazy" Mrs. Hata.
Justin Banning
A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.
Director
