Kazuya Shiraishi
Kazuya Shiraishi (born December 12,1974) is a Japanese filmmaker. He started working as an assistant director for Kōji Wakamatsu, Isao Yukisada and Isshin Inudo.
Works
Pink and Gray
Popular actor Rengo Shiraki dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?
Release Date2016-01-09
Charactersd Movie Director
Vote Count12
11 Rebels
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army.
Release Date2024-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count33
Hibana: Spark
Tokunaga, a comedian who is down on his luck, has a shock encounter with Kamiya, an older comedian when he visits a fireworks event in Atami on a job. Tokunaga is deeply touched by Kamiya and asks if he can become his apprentice. Kamiya is a genius type of comedian who is full of human kindness. He accepts Tokunaga’s proposition on the condition that he will write his biography.
Release Date2016-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count28
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw
A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.
Release Date2004-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
Kamome
Release Date2000-03-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Bushido
Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu.
Release Date2024-05-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count43
The Blood of Wolves
Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
Release Date2018-05-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count34
A Gambler's Odyssey 2020
Boyatetsu travels to the year 2020 in Tokyo from the year 1945. Tokyo is now plagued by a decreasing population and an increase in unemployment.
Release Date2019-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Kamen Rider Black Sun
The year is 2022. It is an era of chaos, half a century after the government announced the coexistence of humans and kaijins. Aoi Izumi, a young human rights activist calling for the elimination of discrimination, meets a man named Kotaro Minami, the one called "Black Sun," who is a candidate for the next Creation King.
Release Date2022-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobSeries Director
Episode Count10
Vote Count59
Sunny
It has been 14 years since the murder of an elementary school student by a classmate. At the time, Akari was deified by the name Sunny, "the cutest murderer in criminal history". Two men, abduct Akari. Holding her captive, they upload pictures and video of her on the internet. Meanwhile, Akari makes every effort to escape from her prison.
Release Date2018-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Birds Without Names
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.
Release Date2017-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
Perfect Education 6
Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder her husband. Fumiya has no choice but to kill Mr. Hosoi. Unfortunately he's see by a neighbor. In the escape, he meets a girl named Akiko. He hides in her house. Later on, Fumiya and Akiko fall in love and have sex. After that, he finds that the house owner Shin kidnapped Akiko whem she was a little girl and has kept her in the house for over a decade. Fumiya is determined to take her away from Shin's brutal confinement. A battle of wills between jailer, prisoner and accidental savior begins….
Release Date2004-09-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Lesson in Murder
Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimura was committing his murders, he ran a bakery store. At that time, Masaya was a middle-school student and a customer at his bakery store. According to the letter, Haimura confesses to having committed eight murders, but he insists that he did not commit the last murder. Masaya begins to investigate the last murder case involving Haimura.
Release Date2022-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Dawn of the Felines
A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives.
Release Date2017-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count20
Twisted Justice
Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy with the other side of the law when his senior colleague Murai teaches him the ropes and ruts of the police business. Soon, he swaggers and rants through the streets of Sapporo a lean, mean, sex‐crazy bully, indistinguishable from a yakuza.
Release Date2016-06-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
The Queen of Villains
During the heyday of women's pro wrestling in bubble-era Japan, Dump Matsumoto bursts into the ring, shattering norms and turning the nation against her.
Release Date2024-09-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count8
The Devil's Path
Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story, based on Sudo's tip, Fuji becomes convinced that the letter is correct. But, a lot of time has passed from the incidents and Sudo's testimony isn't clear. Due to the persistance of Sudo, who is a former yakuza, and Fuji, the police begin to move.
Release Date2013-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count42
One Night
A family reunites after 15 years. They each have a story to tell as they have not forgotten what happened years ago.
Release Date2019-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count23
Dare to Stop Us
In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.
Release Date2018-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
The Dry Spell
The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the city's water department and his job is to visit homes and stores that are behind on their bills and either collect the money or shut off the water supply (water suspension enforcement). Shunsaku is separated from his wife and children, and his heart grows thirsty as he spends his days visiting poor households and being abhorred. One day, during a water shutoff, Shunsaku meets two young sisters who have been neglected. He sees them as his own children and offers them a helping hand.
Release Date2023-06-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count4
Sea of Revival
After a man gets fired from his work at a printing plant, he moves with his couple to her hometown in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the woman opens up a beauty salon. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an irrevocable situation.
Release Date2019-06-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
Schoolgirl's Cat Fight Often Starts in the Bathroom
Release Date2015-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Lost Paradise in Tokyo
Mikio and his older brother Saneo, who is mentally handicapped, live together and have just buried their father. One day, Mikio hires a hooker named Marin for his brother. Marin is an underground singer who goes by the name Fala. A video producer who is filming Fala's documentary finds out about her double life, and proposes to film her and Saneo's sex life. Dreaming about leaving Tokyo with Saneo with a huge sum of money from the film, Mikio and Marin agree to the offer.
Release Date2010-09-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Tamago
Tokyo. Kazu and Tatsu are two salary men in their thirties. One night, after work, they get drunk and decide to tell each other their deepest secrets to seal the friendship. Tatsu admits being still a virgin. Kazu reveals that every time he eats an egg sandwich, his body transforms, turning him into a woman. Tatsu doesn’t believe his friend and asks him to prove it...
Release Date2025-06-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Guest in Room 0
Set in a city hotel called Point, where there is a strange "Room 0" that can reveal one's "grade" as a human being. Various guests with different circumstances visit the room, hoping to determine their own worth.
Release Date2009-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Fruits Delivery Service
After the company SAKITA had been working at has gone out of business, he returns to his hometown in a regional city for a second start as the head of a call-girl business, "Fruits Delivery Service." This drama tells the tale of a group of women who, being poor and faced with a variety of life situations, have no alternative but to work at that service. It is a work that calls into question how to deal with distortions in society.
Release Date2019-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Last of the Wolves
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
Release Date2021-08-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
Bartender
Upon return from Paris, Sasakura Ryu spends some time wandering amiss, but after some time he decides to start anew by becoming a bartender. On a daily basis as a bartender, he helps solve the various problems burdening his customers, including work and love and family troubles, one cocktail at a time. Furthermore, what will happen to the romantic relationship between Ryu, who seeks the best cocktail, and Kurushima Miwa, who ispertinent to his growth as a person. Also in the drama you'll see the fateful showdown between Kuzuhara Ryuichi, referred to as Mr. Perfect, and Master Kase Goro. -- TV Asahi
Release Date2011-02-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
Femme Fatale Ikusei Keikaku
When a girl's heart is broken by her ex-boyfriend, her cousin hatches a plan: he'll become a gorgeous femme fatale, seduce the ex, then dump him!
Release Date2025-07-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Magic Island DVD: The Cursed School
We usually spend our time at school without thinking about it. In the closed space of school, students create a world of fear and horror. From “Magical i-Land”, one of the largest community sites in Japan! Following the first and second installments, which were extremely popular and well-received, the third installment has finally been released. This time, it is an authentic school horror story!
Release Date2009-07-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
What Kento Nakajima Wants to Know About Movies Now
A "movie" that is a mirror of the times. At the forefront of the movie, there are "important things" to know now ... Kento Nakajima learns about such "movie now" through interviews and on-site interviews.
Release Date2021-03-05
Episode Count1