Kitao Sakurai

Kitao Sakurai (born 1983) is a Japanese-American actor, writer, producer, and film and television director. He is known for directing the 2021 Netflix film Bad Trip. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kitao Sakurai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Circledrawers

Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of tasks. Oleg, a special emissary has arrived at transmission central in Iceland to do the semi-centennial report on the efficiency of the Circledrawer system.

Release Date:2009-01-10

Department:Camera

Job:Grip

72 Hours

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Twisted Metal
7.9

Twisted Metal

A motor-mouthed outsider with no memory of his past is offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.

Release Date:2023-07-27

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:370

Culture Beat

Culture Beat

A show that investigates high culture institutions through the lowbrow lens of various characters. The 2021 love child of Da Ali G Show and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.

Release Date:2022-01-22

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

The Premise
6.4

The Premise

This anthology series about timeless moral questions in unprecedented times, takes provocative concepts and brings them into the open, delivering three-dimensional, character-driven stories with humor and heart.

Release Date:2021-09-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:18

6.1

Bad Trip

In this hidden-camera prank comedy, two best friends bond on a wild road trip to New York as they pull real people into their raunchy, raucous antics.

Release Date:2021-03-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:531

DAVE
7.4

DAVE

A suburban neurotic man in his late 20s has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help, he might actually convince the world.

Release Date:2020-03-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:150

6.5

KRFT PUNK'S Political Party!

The Eric Andre Show's own Kraft Punk goes to Washington DC to find the answers to all of America's burning questions by interviewing some of DC's most 'popular' politicians.

Release Date:2019-03-08

Department:Crew

Job:Creative Consultant

Vote Count:2

6.4

The Passage

A man escapes again and again as he’s pursued by pagan cultists in this sprawling episode of sublime and humanist surrealism produced as a pilot for Adult Swim.

Release Date:2018-01-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Unemployable

Hannibal Buress's first outing as a goat farmer in Moreauville, La., finds him alternately bored, grossed out, and exhausted, and his time on the line at a New Orleans diner is marked by broken eggs and dreams alike.

Release Date:2015-10-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

7.5

The Eric Andre New Year's Eve Spooktacular

To celebrate New Year's Eve, Eric does his talk show live in front of a studio audience.

Release Date:2012-12-12

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

The Eric Andre Show
7.9

The Eric Andre Show

A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.

Release Date:2012-05-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Self

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:138

2.0

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

Release Date:2010-09-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

6.4

Aardvark

A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.

Release Date:2010-08-05

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:Darius Szopa

Vote Count:5

5.3

You Wont Miss Me

A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.

Release Date:2009-01-16

Department:Camera

Job:Director of Photography

Vote Count:12

Coda

An act of violence in the shower room of a boy's prep school gets out of hand and all of the participants are traumatized.

Release Date:2003-06-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Street Fighter

A new film adaptation of the Street Fighter video game. Details TBA.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

0.5

Water in Milk Exists

In cooperation with the Swiss Institute, Lawrence Weiner teamed up with cinematographer Kiki Allgeier to realize WATER IN MILK EXISTS, a fresh skin flick that challenges both artistic and pornographic conventions. The film contains quotations from the artist's children books, austere dialogues on string theory, animations, as well as a lot of carnal action. A multitude of events accompany the launch of the film, mingling porn and art as two of today's most lucrative industries.

Release Date:2008-05-27

Vote Count:1

6.9

Dogma

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and reenter Heaven.

Release Date:1999-11-12

Character:Stygian Triplet

Vote Count:2555

7.0

The Best Bad Thing

After her husband's death, Mrs. Hata desperately needs help on her cucumber farm. Rinko' mother wants her to spend the summer helping Mrs. Hata, her life-long friend. But 12-year-old Rinko sees Mrs. Hata's traditional Japanese ways as being backward and "crazy." When she gives in to her mother's request, she discovers Mrs. Hata is kind and courageous, fighting to save her farm. Before summer ends, RInko comes to appreciate and defend "crazy" Mrs. Hata.

Release Date:1997-05-05

Character:Zenny Hata

Vote Count:2

5.5

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back

A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.

Release Date:1995-05-17

Character:Justin Banning

Vote Count:71

Butterfly

Butterfly

The life of David Jung, an enigmatic, highly unpredictable former US intelligence operative living in South Korea, is blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca, a deadly, sociopathic young agent assigned to kill him.

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

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