Kunitoshi Manda

Love Mooning (2021)

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…. ...

Zettai Zetsumei 8 (2019)

A short film by Kunitoshi Manda ...

Zettai Zetsumei 5 (2017)

A short film by Kunitoshi Manda ...

Synchronizer (2017)

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. ...

Dog's Way (2014)

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. ...

Omokage (2010)

The Kiss (2007)

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 ...

Arigatou (2006)

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 reconstr ...

U-Mi-Me (2004)

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. ...

The Tunnel (2004)

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. ...

Damned Files 5 (2004)

This is the fifth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete episodes produced based on actual stories and accidents. ...

Damned Files 6 (2004)

This is the sixth volume of a serial horror drama series of complete stories based on rumored haunted spots, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in Nagoya and other areas in the Tokai region. ...

Damned Files 7 (2004)

This is the seventh volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, actual stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region. ...

Damned Files 8 (2004)

This is the eighth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted spots, real-life stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region. ...

Damned Files 1 (2004)

This is the first volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003. ...

Damned Files 2 (2004)

This is the second volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003. ...

Damned Files 3 (2004)

This is the third volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003. Includ ...

Damned Files 4 (2004)

This is the fourth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various areas of Japan, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV from July 20 ...

Damned Files 0 (2004)

Takashi and his wife Misako, who lost their beloved son in a trapeze accident, have never recovered from the shock, and have kept the urn in their bedroom because they do not want to leave their son's ashes. One day, the couple hears that they can see thei ...

Deka Matsuri (2003)

12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes" ...

Unloved (2001)

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 repeated ...

Footsteps in the Night (2000)

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. ...

Space Ship Remnant 6 (1996)

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. ...

Fetus Training (1991)

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. ...

The Zombie From Paradise (1990)

An old man who died and entered paradise returns to the world of the living, creating terror and confusion. ...

The Giant Slalom (1990)

A short film based on a synopsis of Straub-Huillet's "Class Relations" that director Kunitoshi Manda made before seeing the film. ...

Bumpkin Soup (1985)

Country girl Akiko visits a Tokyo college in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, horny co-eds, a psych professor in search of the theory of sha ...

Draw the Line of Flight (1984)

A Japanese short film ...

Kandagawa Pervert Wars (1983)

Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They decide to stage a rescue attempt to free him and in the process one ...

The New Seven Lines Between Things (1983)

An anthology film by eight members of Parodious Unity. ...

The Night Before the Escape (1982)

Vertigo College (1980)

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 ma ...

All Girls Are Twins (1980)

The film multiplies women. A tragicomedy about a boy who is continually pranked by the appearance of his twin lovers. ...

Count to Four (1978)

SCHOOL SOUNDS (1978)

Set in a Japanese university in the late '70s, the film discusses the absurdity of cafeteria prices, the struggle over the old clock tower, and more. ...

Made in 76 (1977)

Kunitoshi Manda's first film. A monologue and dialogue about love. ...

West Wind (1977)

A woman searching for the truth behind the death of her lover visits Bazin, Godard, and Mekas. ...

Kai-Ki: Tales of Terror from Tokyo (2010)

Tsukimono - Ayumi Kirishima is a college student who has just completed her second interview with a prospective employer. Ayumi then takes a bus to get to class and comes across a creepy barefooted woman. When the woman startes shaking and hiccuping, Ayumi ...

Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro Kaiki Nozomi (2010)

The 2010 theatrical two-part series of the immensely popular ghost story franchise. Starring Hello! Project's No. 1 idol, Erina Mano, who takes on a genuine horror challenge. The terror unfolds as it preys on a high school girl who has closed her heart due ...

The Soup of Heaven (2008)

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. ...

Yorokobi (2001)

A young woman trying to break out of her monotonous routine. ...

Not To Talk About All Of Her Old Age (2001)

Aoyama Shinji's Film History—and simultaneously a chronicle of modern Japanese history—layers together images of present-day landscapes, newsreels, and photographs of Emperor Shōwa as well as of Kōtoku Shūsui and Sugako Kanno, who were executed in t ...

Yamato Nadeshiko (1998)

The story of a young woman working in a bar, trying to get men to spend extra on her services. ...

Fangs Crazy for White Skin (1977)