Yuji Katsui

Boy Soldiers: The Secret War In Okinawa (2018)

The greatest taboo of the Battle of Okinawa were Guerrilla units composed of boy soldiers. Until now, not even the Japanese people knew the full scope of these secret troops, and survivors have been afraid to share their tragic details. Okinawa became the ...

The Blood of Rebirth (2009)

Based on the Japanese legend of 15th century adventurer, Oguri Hangan Daisukeshige, Toyoda places us in a surreal world of tattooed Japanese slave workers whose real life roles serve more as symbols than actual characters. After being hired by a local desp ...

AITAI (2002 Version) (2002)

The title is a combination of "I want to meet you" and "靉靆 (the flow of clouds, or a lens)". A kind of fake work using old film shot 10 years after its expiration date. However the "film you don't know who belongs to" that is inserted in the middle is ...

Long Good-bye (1997)

Dreams, signs, fragments, margins, letters, one could also add love and memory to the list. My enchanted kingdom is filled with real aimlessness. The more the better. All that is left behind after it has disappeared is quiet. In the end I feel there hasn' ...

Pu (1994)

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray. ...

The Cat Night (1992)

V/M. Drifting (1990)

The original format is 8mm film (single8), and once the developed film is incompletely layered on the undeveloped film, it is projected onto a curtain swaying in the wind by shining light at an angle with a penlight. Created an effect. ...

Guiding Star (1987)

In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn ba ...

Memories of the Seaside (1982)

It consists of two repeated images: a scene of cutting the back of a hand with a utility knife and blood oozing out, and another one of a man being slaughtered at the beach. ...

Fishmans: A Piece of Future (2012)

Fishmans perform live at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall on May 3, 2011 with guest vocalists ...