Shinya Tsukamoto

Gender: Male Birthplace: Tokyo Japan Zodiac: Capricorn Is a Japanese film director and actor with a considerable cult following both domestically and abroad. Tsukamoto started making movies at the age of 14 when his father gave him a Super 8 camera. His cinematic influences included Akira Kurosawa. He made a number of films ranging from 10minute shorts to 2hour features until his first year at college when he temporarily lost interest in making movies. Tsukamoto then started up a theatre group which soon included Kei Fujiwara Nobu Kanaoka and Tomorowo Taguchi all of whom would continue to work with Tsukamoto up through the filming of Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Official websitehttp://tsukamotoshinya.net/