Known for Sound
Born
December 13, 1951 (age 74)
Birthplace
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Filmography
20 films, 3 shows


Making of Swing Girls
2005 · 27m
The making of the cult classic Japanese film


Turn
2001 · 1h 52m · JP
Maki is a talented copper plate artist, however, just before her first gallery show, she gets struck by a truck. When she comes to she is at home. When she ventures outside, the city is deserted and she knows something is deeply wrong. Each day repeats; she wakes up at 2:15 in the afternoon. Gradually things start change, the phone rings, and she finds that she is not alone...


Urusei Yatsura: Nagisa's Fiancé
1988 · 27m · JP
Lum, Ataru, Mendou and Shinobu visit an inn which Ryuunosuke and her father have opened. But when it turns out to be on a haunted desert island, the stage is set for some serious silliness!


Urusei Yatsura: Raging Sherbet
1988 · 26m · JP
Lum & her girlfriends are invited to Neptune by Oyuki. There she shows them her new business venture at a ranch of flying sherbets, birds capable of producing sherbet cones from their beaks. Ran convinces Oyuki to let her borrow one, her goal is to make some quick cash selling sherbets on Earth. Unfortunately, the combination of being overworked and a hot summer day has made the sherbet extremely cranky, even from its refrigerated cage. It breaks from its cage and escapes, but not before attacking Ran and Lum, and trashing Benten's brand-new bike by shooting sherbet cones at it. Now it's up to Ran to retrieve the sherbet before Benten blasts it out of the sky, and more importantly, before Oyuki finds out.


The Running Man
1987 · 11m · JP
Zack Hugh has dominated the Death Circus racing circuit for 10 years. Journalist Bob Stone discovers Zack possesses telekinetic abilities, which he uses to destroy the other racers. After winning his latest race by killing the competitors, Zack hallucinates being overtaken by a spectral racer and destroys himself when he attempts to use his powers on the hallucination


Urusei Yatsura: Memorial Album
1986 · 28m · JP
Featured special that uses scenes from the series stored on a personal satellite of the Los Mendo family.


Urusei Yatsura: Ryoko's September Tea Party
1985 · 48m · JP
Ryoko throws a tea party for her friends. Flashbacks reveal the pasts of Ryoko's various guests.


Kids
1985 · 1h 43m · JP
In the basement of a pornographic shop in the port town, there was a secret handgun manufacturing factory. Three guns were stolen from there. His younger brother Tomo (Tsunoda) and Saki (Hayami), who lives together, dream of working at a jazz club and singing at this restaurant one day like his mother, who passed away. In her house, Tomo's friend Ryuichi (Sato) was in and out. Ryuichi takes on the task of finding three guns from a man in the world behind the scenes.


Drive for the Future
1980 · 2h 14m · JP


Unico: Black Cloud and White Feathers
1979 · 26m · JP
The Goddess Venus is jealous of the beautiful human girl Psyche and blames her pet unicorn, Unico, as Psyche's source of good luck that keeps her from the harm of the goddess' cruel intentions. Unico has the amazing power to make anyone he meets happy. Whether it's because of his personality or the powers of his horn, no one knows. Venus has Unico banished, and the West Wind now takes Unico from one place and time to the next. Taken to a heavily polluted city, Unico meets a sickly girl named Chiko who is suffering because of the pollution of a nearby factory that darkens the entire sky. Unico then is determined to cheer her up, cure her, and destroy the nearby factory.