Kunitoshi Manda
출생 : , Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
약력
Film director, screenwriter and critic. Born 1956.
Writer
Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….
Director
Hiroshi, who runs a mental clinic, has never recovered from the shock of his wife’s suicide. One day, Ayako, a mysterious patient comes to his clinic….
Director
A short film by Kunitoshi Manda
Director
A short film by Kunitoshi Manda
Director
TAKASHI Hasegawa is conducting unauthorized research on how to synchronize brainwaves of humans and animals. One day, he thinks he may be able to cure his mother with dementia in this way.
Director
Kyoko feels unsatisfied with her ordinary days although she has a job and a boyfriend. One day, she meets Nishimori, a man with vacant "dog" eyes. This mysterious encounter is the beginning of her new life as Nishimori's dog. In a closed house, they get deeply absorbed in the strange relationship as "a dog" and "its owner"
Director
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.
Writer
One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.
Director
One day Kyoko watches television and sees a man turning himself in to the police after murdering a family. Something within Kyoko connects with the man, as she recognizes a similar soul. Despite the worries of the killer's lawyer, she approaches the killer and the two start corresponding.
Screenplay
In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.
Director
In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera store in Kobe City, lost his friends, his house, and his property. Tadao is busy volunteering for the reconstruction of the town, and one day he comes across his own golf bag that survived the earthquake. Feeling a miracle, Tadao decides to challenge the professional golf test before he turns 60.
Director
An exquisite-corpse-style narrative constructed by Kunitoshi Manda and his film students, beginning from a bank robbery and leading to a distortion of the space-time-continuum.
Writer
A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother.
Director
A modern Japanese family loses their youngest son in a tragedy. The mother, Misako, plunges into depression and the oldest son Akira starts blaming himself for the death of his brother.
Writer
Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".
Director
Mitsuko, a thirty-something Japanese secretary, lives a very simple life devoid of ambition. She has an affair with Eiji, a rich, arrogant and newly divorced businessman who is intrigued by her retiring personnality but she quickly breaks up as he repeatedly tries to make her change her lifestyle and values. While Eiji ponders the reasons of the breakup, Mitsuko falls for one of her neighbours, a young slacker who has the same approach to life as her. But Mitsuko's new lover is fascinated by Eiji's power and social status... A triangle that will inevitably leave one of the characters "unloved".
Himself
Writer
Hiroshi's mother asks him to let his younger brother Jun live with him when she can't support him any longer. However, Jun is rebellious towards Hiroshi, and Hiroshi gets into further trouble when he loses his job.
Director
Hiroshi's mother asks him to let his younger brother Jun live with him when she can't support him any longer. However, Jun is rebellious towards Hiroshi, and Hiroshi gets into further trouble when he loses his job.
The story of a young woman working in a bar, trying to get men to spend extra on her services.
Writer
In the year 2046, overpopulation and exhaustion of resources has forced humanity to travel into space. A colony is established on Mars. This film is about what happens when one cargo ship traveling between Mars and Earth collides with an asteroid.
Director
In the year 2046, overpopulation and exhaustion of resources has forced humanity to travel into space. A colony is established on Mars. This film is about what happens when one cargo ship traveling between Mars and Earth collides with an asteroid.
Writer
A pregnant woman is told by her doctor that she should maintain a calm attitude throughout her pregnancy for the health of her baby. When a man tries to rob her house in the middle of the night, she has to vanquish him without losing her calm attitude.
Director
A pregnant woman is told by her doctor that she should maintain a calm attitude throughout her pregnancy for the health of her baby. When a man tries to rob her house in the middle of the night, she has to vanquish him without losing her calm attitude.
Director
An old man who died and entered paradise returns to the world of the living, creating terror and confusion.
Writer
A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film.
Director
A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film.
Writer
시골에서 고등학교를 졸업한 아키코는 사랑하는 요시오카를 찾기 위해 도쿄의 대학을 방문한다. 그러나 요시오카의 모습은 찾을 수 없고, 대학 곳곳에서는 학생들의 정사가 벌어지고 있을 뿐이다. 수치심에 대한 연구를 하고 있는 심리학과 교수 히라야마는 순수 그 자체로 보이는 아키코에게 실험을 제안하지만 결과는 예상과 다르다.
Director
A Japanese short film
Art Direction
평범하고 보잘것없는 서민 아파트와 상류층이 살고 있는 고급 맨션. 이 사이의 간격을 더 극명하게 드러내주는 건 탁하게 고여있는 두 건물 사이의 간다천이다. 서민 아파트 2층에 살고 있는 아키코는 남자친구와 건조한 섹스를 하거나 옆집 여대생 마사미와 할 일 없이 키득거리며 하루하루를 보낸다. 어느 날 무료한 일상을 함께 보내던 아키코와 마사미는 우연히 망원경으로 살펴본 건너편 고급 맨션에서 모자(母子)가 음란한 포즈를 취하고 있는 것을 목격한다. 아키코와 마사미는 이 소년을 올바른 성(性)의 길로 인도하기 위해 구출작전을 세우고 씩씩하게 간다천을 넘어간다. 그리고 더러운 간다천에서 소년을 사이에 두고 아들을 빼앗기지 않으려는 어머니와 두 여자간의 육탄전이 벌어지게 된다.
Director
Gaffer
At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.
Cinematography
At the beginning of the film, we are presented with an ordinary story. It is the story of a student organization's internal struggle. The story begins with the protagonist taking a briefcase and the organization taking it back, along with his woman. The man who brings back the bag faces the woman. The room is somehow symmetrical. The room is somehow left-right symmetrical, with a low angle and fixed screen as in the Ozu style.
Director
Masako's husband
