Daishi Matsunaga

Is love an ego to save yourself, or... Based on Takayama Makoto's autobiographical novel, this film tells the story of the love between Kosuke, an editor, and Ryuta, a personal trainer.

Is love an ego to save yourself, or... Based on Takayama Makoto's autobiographical novel, this film tells the story of the love between Kosuke, an editor, and Ryuta, a personal trainer.

Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.

This project, a fusion of poetry, music, and movies, gives birth to a new style of filmmaking, through the work of five directors.

This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With “Journey” as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. “The Sea” is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child’s trip to the sea from Beijing. “Hekishu,” a film by Daishi Matsunaga (Japan), tells about the journey of a Japanese businessman involved in infrastructure development in Yangon. The film depicts the entrepreneur’s emotional feelings in the face of Yangon residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the new infrastructure. The last is a film titled “Variable No. 3” by Edwin (Indonesia), which tells the story of a couple’s journey to Tokyo. There they meet a mysterious man. The man who works as a tour guide and rents out the inn, gives a strange advice to the husband and wife.

This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With “Journey” as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. “The Sea” is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child’s trip to the sea from Beijing. “Hekishu,” a film by Daishi Matsunaga (Japan), tells about the journey of a Japanese businessman involved in infrastructure development in Yangon. The film depicts the entrepreneur’s emotional feelings in the face of Yangon residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the new infrastructure. The last is a film titled “Variable No. 3” by Edwin (Indonesia), which tells the story of a couple’s journey to Tokyo. There they meet a mysterious man. The man who works as a tour guide and rents out the inn, gives a strange advice to the husband and wife.

‘사치’는 하와이 하나레이 해변으로 떠난 아들이 서핑 중 목숨을 잃었다는 소식을 듣는다. 그 후 십 년 동안 그녀는 매년 같은 날, 하나레이 해변을 찾아와 홀로 조용한 휴가를 보낸다. 그녀가 하는 일이라고는 푸른 바다를 앞에 두고 홀로 조용히 책을 읽는 것뿐. 어느 날 ‘사치’는 일본에서 서핑 여행을 온 두 소년과 마주치고, 소년들은 그녀에게 외다리 일본인 서퍼를 보았느냐고 묻는다. 고요해 보였던 ‘사치’의 마음은 걷잡을 수 없이 일렁이기 시작하는데...

‘사치’는 하와이 하나레이 해변으로 떠난 아들이 서핑 중 목숨을 잃었다는 소식을 듣는다. 그 후 십 년 동안 그녀는 매년 같은 날, 하나레이 해변을 찾아와 홀로 조용한 휴가를 보낸다. 그녀가 하는 일이라고는 푸른 바다를 앞에 두고 홀로 조용히 책을 읽는 것뿐. 어느 날 ‘사치’는 일본에서 서핑 여행을 온 두 소년과 마주치고, 소년들은 그녀에게 외다리 일본인 서퍼를 보았느냐고 묻는다. 고요해 보였던 ‘사치’의 마음은 걷잡을 수 없이 일렁이기 시작하는데...

‘사치’는 하와이 하나레이 해변으로 떠난 아들이 서핑 중 목숨을 잃었다는 소식을 듣는다. 그 후 십 년 동안 그녀는 매년 같은 날, 하나레이 해변을 찾아와 홀로 조용한 휴가를 보낸다. 그녀가 하는 일이라고는 푸른 바다를 앞에 두고 홀로 조용히 책을 읽는 것뿐. 어느 날 ‘사치’는 일본에서 서핑 여행을 온 두 소년과 마주치고, 소년들은 그녀에게 외다리 일본인 서퍼를 보았느냐고 묻는다. 고요해 보였던 ‘사치’의 마음은 걷잡을 수 없이 일렁이기 시작하는데...

Six Stories based on Six Songs.

After a 15-year hiatus, The Yellow Monkey, one of Japan's greatest rock bands, reunites in 2016 and goes on tour. They vow never to break up again. Director Daishi Matsunaga of Pieta in the Toilet and Pyuupiru captures them on and off stage examining what they did during their absence and where they are going.

After a 15-year hiatus, The Yellow Monkey, one of Japan's greatest rock bands, reunites in 2016 and goes on tour. They vow never to break up again. Director Daishi Matsunaga of Pieta in the Toilet and Pyuupiru captures them on and off stage examining what they did during their absence and where they are going.

10년째 마술사의 조수로 일하는 29살의 아키는 오디션에서 프로듀서의 눈에 들어 마침내 스타가 된다. 하지만 그게 정말일까? 과거와 현재, 현실과 망상과 악몽이 뒤섞인 아키의 현실은 카오스가 된다. 2015년 유바리영화제에서 심사위원 특별상을 받은 중편을 셀프 리메이크한 장편 데뷔작. (2018년 제22회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)

Confident that he’s the next great Japanese thespian, Matsumoto Fighter and his manager roam the streets of Shibuya to promote him. When he finds out that up-andcoming indie director Matsunaga Daishi is holding auditions for his latest film, Matsumoto pulls out all the stops to get in. Director Ninomiya Ken began this project as a Borat-esque mockumentary about the desperate measures aspiring actors take to break into show business. But when Fighter and his manager push the limits of their unsuspecting prey a little too far, fiction and reality begin to overlap in disturbing and surprisingly violent ways. Will Fighter finally get his big break, or will his dreams come crumbling down?

미대를 나왔으나 화가에 대한 뜻을 버리고 고층건물 창문닦이로 일하고 있는 히로시(노다 요지로)는 자신의 삶이 3개월밖에 남지 않았음을 알게 된다. 그리고 인생의 마지막 여름, 히로시는 마이(스기사키 하나)라는 고등학교 여학생을 만나 끌리게 되고 그녀와 만날수록 점점 삶의 열정을 느끼며 다시 그림을 그리게 되는데…

미대를 나왔으나 화가에 대한 뜻을 버리고 고층건물 창문닦이로 일하고 있는 히로시(노다 요지로)는 자신의 삶이 3개월밖에 남지 않았음을 알게 된다. 그리고 인생의 마지막 여름, 히로시는 마이(스기사키 하나)라는 고등학교 여학생을 만나 끌리게 되고 그녀와 만날수록 점점 삶의 열정을 느끼며 다시 그림을 그리게 되는데…

Brand new MMA documentary following the careers of several top Japanese fighters. Watch these men prepare for big fights and put their lives in the ring for spirituality and glory.

Brand new MMA documentary following the careers of several top Japanese fighters. Watch these men prepare for big fights and put their lives in the ring for spirituality and glory.

Brand new MMA documentary following the careers of several top Japanese fighters. Watch these men prepare for big fights and put their lives in the ring for spirituality and glory.

An unknown calamity is killing off ninety-percent of mankind. There is no cure, no hope and no future. A man and woman, who are laden with suffering and anxiety, are drawn together. They spend their final days, and perhaps the final days of the planet, together in a different environment somewhere in central Japan of the near future.

Pyuupiru is a Japanese contemporary artist whose works are highly acclaimed in recent years. An old friend of his (hers), Daishi Matsunaga has filmed him for 8 years, ever since Pyuupiru frequented clubs wearing eccentric handmade costumes. Pyuupiru went through a gender identity disorder, broken heart and castration operation, and then he held a performance at Yokohama Triennale in 2005 as a compilation of his life experience. Pyuupiru was born as male, but he gradually realized that his body does not fit him. He tried to clear that feeling by wearing those eccentric costumes. People started to take notice of it as pieces of art, and he started creative activity in the contemporary art world. This film follows the vicissitudes of his mind, body, and the art works that he gave birth to. Enormous amount of footage also reveals the relationships with his family, friends and his boyfriend who have always watched him with a warm look, although they had mixed feeling for the reality.

Hayato comes back to his home village after father breaks his legs and cannot walk anymore. He brings his wife Ami along with him, who had a miscarriage and has been dysfunctional and depressed ever since. Hayato hangs with his old friends and enjoys the life of the village, but Ami is a city girl and is growing lonelier. She finds comfort in the arms of Hayato's father. It's not long before everybody in the small village is aware of their relationship... except Hayato... A drama about betrayal and the illogical nature of love and happiness.

Spread over three time periods (Summer 10 Years Ago/Summer 5 Years Ago/This Summer), Lost Virgin tells the tale of good-time girl Chisato (Sasaki), hungry for new experiences yet ultimately in search of emotional fulfilment.

게이인 나오야는 자기중심적이지만 항상 자기 인생에 무언가가 비었다는 생각을 하고 있다. 그는 어느날 카츠히로를 만나 사랑에 빠지게 된다. 그런데 카츠히로에게 아사코라는 여자가 나타나 그의 아기를 가져 주겠다는 제의를 한다. 게이 커플인 나오야와 카츠히로는 끊임없이 사랑을 갈구하며 사람들에게 상처를 주며 스스로 상처받는 나오코와 함께 불확실한 현실에서 희망을 찾으려 하는데...

Japanese horror film with four segments.

A troop of children from eight to thirteen, abandoned on an island, struggling for life in the midst of passion fueled by the differences of nationalities. A story in the style of Robinson Crusoe revisited by Jules Verne.