Kankuro Kudo

Kankuro Kudo

Nacimiento : 1970-07-19, Miyagi, Japan

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Kankurō Kudō  (宮藤 官九郎 Kudō Kankurō, born 19 July 1970) is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for Go, which explores problems faced by people of Korean-heritage living in Japan. He acted in the hugely popular tear-jerker, Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World, and is also guitarist in the Japanese Comedy Rock Band Group Tamashii. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kankurō Kudō, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Kankuro Kudo

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Mom, Is That You?
Akio Kanzaki (Yo Oizumi), que pasa sus días como jefe del departamento de recursos humanos de una gran empresa, está nervioso por el divorcio de su esposa y preocupado por la relación con su hija, que ahora es estudiante universitaria. Para relajarse, decide visitar la casa de mis padres en el centro de Tokio.
The Dry Spell
Fushimi
The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the city's water department and his job is to visit homes and stores that are behind on their bills and either collect the money or shut off the water supply (water suspension enforcement). Shunsaku is separated from his wife and children, and his heart grows thirsty as he spends his days visiting poor households and being abhorred. One day, during a water shutoff, Shunsaku meets two young sisters who have been neglected. He sees them as his own children and offers them a helping hand.
Ichikei's Crow The Movie
Ichigeki
Screenplay
The drama depicts the exploits of the “Ichigeki Hishikkitai”, a special combat unit formed by farmers to deal with the "Imperial Robbers" and the "Imperial Thieves" of the Satsuma Clan who were causing a stir in Edo at the end of the Edo period.
The Mole Song: FINAL
Writer
Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he gets on luxury passenger ship and he faces his strongest enemy to date.
Ora, Ora Be Goin' Alone
Loneliness 3
In 1964, Momoko came by herself to Tokyo from her hometown. She met Shūzō and married him. They raised two children together, but Shūzō suddenly passes away. Momoko is dumbfounded by being alone again. She begins to go to the library and borrows books. This changes her life.
大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Writer
大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Director
大人計画ウーマンリブvol.14「もうがまんできない」
Punk Samurai Slash Down
Writer
Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence and he must think of an escape plan.
Dear Etranger
Sawada
Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.
The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capriccio
Writer
As undercover cop Reiji takes on a new mission to takedown the Chinese mafia, elite police officer Shinya moves to arrest Reiji.
My Uncle
Sadao Haruyama
Yukio Haruyama (Riku Ohnishi) is an elementary school student. He has an uncle (Ryuhei Matsuda) that teaches philosophy part-time at an university. His uncle leeches off his family. The uncle then goes on a blind date and falls in love with beautiful Eri Inaba. She is a fourth generation Japanese living in Hawaii. Sometime later, Eri goes back to Hawaii to take over a coffee farm left behind by her recently deceased grandmother. Yukio and his uncle travel to Hawaii to see Eri.
Too Young To Die!
Screenplay
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Too Young To Die!
Director
After dying in a bus crash and falling to hell, high schooler Daisuke joins a demonic rock band so he can be reincarnated back into the mortal world.
Gamera
Manafu's father
GAMERA is a kaiju short film first released as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Gamera's debut film.
Bakuman
Taro Kawaguchi
Moritaka Mashiro, un estudiante de instituto, se deja su cuaderno en clase. Su compañero Akito Takagi lo encuentra y, tras ver sus dibujos, le propone ser el artista para las historias que escribe, aunque la oferta es rechazada en un primer momento. Takagi entonces le empuja a hablar con Miho Azuki, la chica que le gusta a Mashiro, contándole sus planes de convertirse en profesionales del manga. Resulta que ella, a su vez, quiere ser actriz de doblaje, con lo que deciden que será ella quien le ponga voz y que Mashiro y Azuki se casen cuando alcancen su sueño. Los dos amigos comienzan a trabajar bajo el pseudónimo de Muto Ashirogi.
Piece of Cake
Manager of Asagaya Loft (cameo)
Shino Umemiya readily dates guys interested in her, because she believes that's better than being alone. She breaks up with her violent boyfriend after he discovered that she cheated on him. She moves to a new area to get a fresh new start on her life. There, Shino Umemiya meets her neighbor Kyoshiro Sugahara. He is also her manager at her new job. Shino Umemiya becomes interested in him, but he lives with mysterious woman Akari.
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
Screenplay
Reiji es el peor policía de la academia. Despedido por inútil, pronto será readmitido, con la orden de infiltrarse en un clan yakuza.
The Apology King
Screenplay
Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
Maruyama, The Middle Schooler
Screenplay
Katsuya Maruyama (Hiraoka Takuma) is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi), a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
Maruyama, The Middle Schooler
Director
Katsuya Maruyama (Hiraoka Takuma) is a middle school student boy full of obscene thoughts. He then meets Tatsuo Shimoi (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi), a single father who moves into the same apartment complex. Tatsuo Shimoi is a bit of an enigma: he doesn't get along with the housewives in the apartment complex and doesn't appear to work. Through his encounter with the mysterious single father, Katsuya grows as a person.
The Wife of Gegege
Shigeru Mura
A woman from rural Japan marries a struggling cartoonist in Tokyo. Their life is difficult before he finds success, but at least they're together.
Ooedo ribingu deddo
Director
Kabuki play
Ooedo ribingu deddo
Writer
Kabuki play
Zebraman 2 Attack on Zebra City
Writer
Zebra City 2025 – music echoing across what used to be Tokyo from Zebra Queen marks the start of Zebra Time, a 5 minute window twice a day when the city population is free to commit any crime and the Vengeful Zebra Mini-Skirt Police and masked Zebra Police can shoot civilians at will. Zebraman wakes in the street, unable to remember the last 15 years, or his superhero past. He must rely on a band Zebra Time survivors, a man who played him in a TV show version of Zebraman and a mysterious silent girl to battle this Zebra obsession that is splitting the city in to absolutes of black and white.
The Tragedy of W
The lakeside at Lake Yamanaka is covered with snow. In the vacation house in such a quiet area owned by the chairman of Watsuji Seiyaku, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Japan, the tragedy suddenly breaks out. ”I have killed my granduncle!!” says Mako, who is loved by everybody in the Watsuji family. She has stabbed her granduncle, Yohei, to death. Soon after the domestic homicide, the entire family joining together in an attempt to make it look like a crime committed by somebody outside the family, begins to engage in imitative deception...
No More Cry
Writer
Abandoned by his father as a boy, Yuta grows up as the foster son of a restaurant owner and takes over the restaurant at the owner's death. Cheery, always smiling, always helpful, Yuta is known as Yama-chan, the friend everyone turns to. When Yuta discovers he had a hitherto unknown baby brother, he sets out to track him down. But the baby brother, Yusuke, has grown up to be half of a successful comedy team, the Kinjo Brothers, and Yusuke's professional "brother" has just written a best-selling book about their adventures growing up together. Yuta's appearance on the scene threatens to reveal that the book is a complete fiction and to set all three "brothers" into conflict with each other.
Kamui
Screenplay
Kamui es un Ninja prófugo, que se siente atado por las normas y va en busca de la verdadera libertad. Sin embargo, debe soportar la carga de su destino, que no le permite mostrar sus poderes fuera de la tribu -si naces como Ninja, debes morir como Ninja-. Por eso, deberá luchar constantemente para salvar su vida cuando otros ninjas intenten matarlo. Él no confía en nadie, y no ama a nadie. Ser débil, lo llevaría a una muerte inmediata. Por casualidad, llegará a la aldea de un viejo pescador, donde finalmente empieza a confiar y a sentir afecto por los demás. Sin embargo, sus perseguidores están a punto de tenderle una trampa. Adaptación del anime/manga de Sampei Shirato
Instant Swamp
Detective Sawaragi
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper.
Brass Knucle Boys
Screenplay
Kanna, una trabajadora de una discográfica descubre una banda punk llamada Shonen Meriken sakku (Brass Knuckle Boys) en Internet y decide representarlos. Pero ella no sabe que el vídeo es de hace 25 años y todos sus componentes ahora son de mediana edad.
Brass Knucle Boys
Director
Kanna, una trabajadora de una discográfica descubre una banda punk llamada Shonen Meriken sakku (Brass Knuckle Boys) en Internet y decide representarlos. Pero ella no sabe que el vídeo es de hace 25 años y todos sus componentes ahora son de mediana edad.
Welcome to the Quiet Room
Tetsuo Yakihata
28 year old freelance writer Sakura Asuka wakes up tied in a white room. The white room is a protected room located in an isolated ward of a psychiatric hospital. Sakura first became unconscious because of heavy alcohol use and a druge overdose. She’s confined in the single room because of her high risk of committing suicide. Sakura tried to talk to the nurses and doctors but they didn’t listen to her. Under the circumstances another patient Miki, who suffers from an eating disorder, leads her to understand the unknown world. But, Sakura is looking for the way to get back to the real world as soon as possible.
Maiko Haaaan!!!
Writer
Kimihiko Onizuka is a salaryman infatuated with maiko (apprentice geisha) and whose greatest goal in life is to play a party game called "yakyuken" with one.
The Sword of Alexander
Sasuke
Orichalcum is a mystical metal material that gives great powers to the life form that possesses it. Many Eons ago, the Orichalcum was split into three and landed on Earth. The metal then took the form of three relics: Skanda’s Vajra, Jew’s Cross, and the Sword of Alexander. Anyone able to re-unite these three Orichalcum relics would then obtain the powers of a God. Now two rival aliens are in a heated race to reunite the Orichalcum. They land in Edo era Tokyo where the relics are thought to exist.
Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series
Screenplay
After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living results in the return of Ozzy and a long dead team of American baseball players who drowned off the shores of Kisarazu. It's down to Bussan and the Cats to save the day and restore the town to order, but can Bussan bring himself to say bye-bye once and for all?
TekkonKinkreet
Sawada (voice)
En Treasure Town, donde la luna sonríe y los chicos pueden volar, la vida puede ser tan maravillosa como terrible. Kuro y Shiro, dos huérfanos que se buscan la vida como pueden, otean la ciudad como halcones y no paran de meterse en líos. Su reinado en las alturas tocará a su fin cuando aparezca un grupo de mafiosos. La ciudad está en peligro, y Kuro y Shiro están dispuestos a acudir al rescate aunque tengan que enfrentarse a la yakuza y sus "aliens asesinos". Basada en el manga de Taiyou Matsumoto, "Tekkonkinkreet" combina la animación tradicional con las más moderna tecnología en 3D.
Conociendo a Matsuko
Tetsuya Yamekawa
Matsuko fue asesinada a los 53 años cerca de un río próximo a su apartamento. Un sobrino suyo investiga el caso y va reconstruyendo los episodios de la desgraciada vida de su tía. Estuvo nominada a nueve premios de la Academia de Cine Japonesa (director, actriz, sonido, banda sonora, iluminación, dirección artística, guión, montaje y fotografía) y obtuvo tres: mejor actriz (Miki Nakatani), mejor montaje (Yoshiyuki Koike) y mejor BSO (Gabriele Roberto & Takeshi Shibuya).
A Heartful of Love
Mitsuo Usui
Hiroshi, a 30 year-old businessman, has traveled back in time 20 years. He encounters Kazumi, a young woman who was gravely ill. Hiroshi regarded this as an opportunity to help the young woman from his past, the memory of whom he had always cherished.
Yaji y Kita: Los peregrinos de medianoche
Screenplay
Dos amantes samurai homosexuales se embarcan en una misión hacia Ise Shrine, un viaje que los obliga a enfrentar de todo, desde la drogadicción hasta una batalla con el Rey Artiuro. Basada parcialmente en la novela de Tokkaidochu Hizakurige.
Yaji y Kita: Los peregrinos de medianoche
Director
Dos amantes samurai homosexuales se embarcan en una misión hacia Ise Shrine, un viaje que los obliga a enfrentar de todo, desde la drogadicción hasta una batalla con el Rey Artiuro. Basada parcialmente en la novela de Tokkaidochu Hizakurige.
69
Screenplay
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block. This plan however catches the attention of television stations and newspapers, and soon even the cops became involved in this teenage adventure.
Un grito de amor desde el centro del mundo
Ryunosuke Oki
Sakutaro está a vísperas de su boda, pareciera que todo va bien, hasta que su novia Ritsuko decide desaparecer por un tiempo. Sakutaro está desesperado ya que además se avecina un gran tifón a la ciudad. Entre todas las noticias del tifón, Sakutaro ve a Ritsuko en la televisión, en una ciudad distante pero que le es bastante especial. Es entonces cuando él decide ir en su búsqueda, sin embargo, terminará desviándose de su objetivo para encontrarse cara a cara con un pasado que dejó inconcluso.
Drugstore Girl
Writer
Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
Zebraman
Writer
Shinichi es un profesor obsesionado con una antigua serie sentai llamada Zebraman, la relación con su familia no es muy buena, así que cada noche se encierra en su habitación para coser un traje a imagen y semejanza al original del protagonista de la serie. (FILMAFFINITY)
Kisarazu Cat's Eye: Nihon Series
Screenplay
When Bussan learns he has less than a year to live, he decides to continue his life as usual. He spends his time with his friends, a band called Kisarazu Cat's Eye. Their funny adventures range from playing gigs to solving a mystery surrounding counterfeit money, but Bussan's impending death is never far away.
Thirteen Steps
Toru Kihara
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Rock'n'Roll Mishin
Kenji has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break off a lukewarm relationship with his girlfriend. Then, he meets an old classmate from high school, Ryoichi. Ryoichi says he's starting up a clothing brand with a group of friends. One day, Kenji visits their atelier, or workplace, and is fascinated by the sense of freedom that they share. As his relationship with them deepens, Kenji finds it harder and harder to accept the old world he comes from. One day, he punches his boss and quits his job. Now a proper member of Ryoichi's team, it's the start of a new and carefree life for him. However, it is short-lived. The clothes they make do not sell as well as they hoped for. Short on cash, energy, and ideas, the negative feedback loop forces each of them to start struggling in a search for alternative paths.
Ping Pong
Screenplay
As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by and chases all of them them away. Peco then takes Smile under his wings and teaches him how to play the game of ping pong. From there a life long best friend relationship comes into existence between these two polar opposite kids.
The Labor Cop
Due to the effect of the prolonged great depression, finally even the police have to introduce a part-time job system for its employees. Although his main job is a steeplejack, one man is also employed as a day-laborer detective. He spends his days waiting for an incident to occur so he will be called in to investigate. On the other hand, Yasu is not only a graduate of The University of Tokyo with a successful IT business, he is also member of the Nagasaka yakuza clan. Moreover, he is a favorite of the clan leader.
GO
Screenplay
Sugihara es un joven coreano residente en Japón que, a pesar de ser inmigrante de segunda generación, trata de integrarse en un mundo que le discrimina racialmente.
Thumb Princess
Screenplay
Saeko Machida is a high school girl with a crush on a boy in her class named Yuichi Kimijima. Becoming obsessed with him, she tries to gain his attention and win his affections, but there's no such luck. One day, she meets a strange man at a flea-market who gives her a red liquid, telling her that if she splashes it on Yuichi, her wish will become true. She acquiring the liquid, certain that the liquid will cause Yuuichi to love her. Saeko finally gets the courage to confess her love to Yuichi, but he rejects her. Disappointed, she splashes the liquid on Yuichi, but that liquid actually causes him to shrink about three inches in height.
Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication
Ikuo Kashiwada
Kids Return
High School Student
Dos amigos de la secundaria viven decepciones y errores durante sus carreras, uno como boxeador y el otro en la Yakuza
My Missing Valentine
Writer
Set in Kyoto, Japan, a love story takes place between Hajime (Masaki Okada) and Reika (Kaya Kiyohara). Hajime is a handsome young man, who is usually a second quicker than everyone else and straightforward. He works at the post office. Reika is a young woman, who is usually a step slower than everyone else. After Valentine's Day, Hajime wakes up and is unable to remember what happened that day.