Shinzo Katayama

Shinzo Katayama

Perfil

Shinzo Katayama

Filmes

Life of Mariko in Kabukicho
Director
A small bar in Tokyo’s red-light district run by an undercover detective with a tragic past links together a group of eccentrics, a search for aliens, FBI investigators, bizarre love affairs and assassins.
世界で戦うフィルムたち
Missing
Director
The movie tells the story of a daughter trying to find her father who went missing shortly after explaining that he happened to see a wanted serial killer marked with a 3 million yen bounty.
The Man Who Was There
Director
A woman named Saki is discovered covered in blood and sat next to the body of an actor in the elevator hall of a condominium. She smokes a cigarette and seems stunned. The film takes audiences back two years in the past, a time when Saki, a staff member on a film, met the actor, Sho, on set and fell in love. He used her badly and had another woman on the side and so Saki reveals how strong her love is and the event occurs that night we first meet her. A short film directed by Shinzo Katayama, whose debut feature film Siblings of the Cape attracted and was screened in different countries. He also has a credit as an AD on Bong Joon-Ho’s mystery-thriller film Mother and Nobuhiro Yamatshita’s The Drudgery Train. The script is by Yukiko Sode who is responsible for Good Stripes and Aristocrats.
Siblings of the Cape
Writer
A pair of siblings are living together in the outskirts of society. The brother, Yoshio, has a hurt leg, the sister, Mariko, has an intellectual disability and spends most of her time at home. When Yoshio loses his job he does the unthinkable and sells his sister's body in order to pay for food and rent.
Siblings of the Cape
Director
A pair of siblings are living together in the outskirts of society. The brother, Yoshio, has a hurt leg, the sister, Mariko, has an intellectual disability and spends most of her time at home. When Yoshio loses his job he does the unthinkable and sells his sister's body in order to pay for food and rent.
Hana's Miso Soup
Assistant Director
Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively Chie. She loves to laugh, sing and eat. After one and a half years, Chie is employed as a music teacher. One day, Shingo is informed that Chie has breast cancer. After thinking about it, he decides to share a lifetime with her and proposes. His proposal gives her the courage to undergo surgery which she had been mulling over. One day, Chie starts to teach 5-year-old Hana the “important things in life” such as laundry, cleaning and cooking. She thinks that even if she is no longer around, her daughter and husband will be able to live.
Mother - A Busca Pela Verdade
Third Assistant Director
Uma mulher viúva cuida sozinha de seu filho único, Do-joon. Este homem de 28 anos, ingênuo e infantil, costuma se comportar de maneira inconsequente, dependendo com frequência da atenção materna. Um dia, ele é acusado do assassinato de uma adolescente, mas parece sequer compreender a acusação que enfrenta. Diante da incompetência do advogado encarregado de defendê-lo, a mãe parte em busca do verdadeiro assassino, para provar a inocência de seu filho.
Tokyo!
Assistant Director
Os diretores Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho e Leos Carax dirigem, cada um, um segmento deste tríptico sobre a vida em Tóquio do século XXI.