Makoto Tezuka Movies

Set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy (Atom) is a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist in the image of the son...

14-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show,...

First part of Tezuka's Elements films series representing "fire".

A woman driving alone at night encounter a man covered with blood on the road.

A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult".

With the city of Shinjuku as the motif, a physical urban theory is illustrated by the flesh of the dancers.

With the camera in love between them, the real Mayumi Mitome and the Mayumi in the film are in honest agreement, and there is a freshness to the film...

Animation using photos and copies. The double image on the left and right makes the woman's face change rapidly.

When lightning strikes a theater about to close its doors, three moviegoers are thrust back in time to the world inside the screen.

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese...

Color short film shot in 8mm

Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story...

Second part of the Elements series with the motif of "water". A beautiful swamp image is displayed at the beginning. An allegorical story of sisters...

Collaborations between some of contemporary Japan's finest musicians and filmmakers. The Nihon no Uta Executive Committee produced a series of...

UNK, an UFO film, tests the limits of the 8mm medium with light, color and multiple exposures.

Kengo, who is saddened by the loss of his girlfriend Sayuri in an accident, meets an eccentric high school girl, Umihana. Her father, Shaman...

Color short film shot in 8mm

Mystical images of Okuaga are expressed with electronic sounds and a female dancer. A locally made work in which an experimental combination of land,...

The mega-corporate Daedalus Group is under attack by a small group of activists known as the Ghost of Icarus. While taking care of some of the...