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.
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 Date1999-10-04
Charactersd Stygian Triplet
Vote Count2611
A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.
Release Date1995-05-17
Charactersd Justin Banning
Vote Count76
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 Date1997-05-05
Charactersd Zenny Hata
Vote Count2
A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.
Release Date2010-08-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Darius Szopa
Vote Count5
A comedic talk show from an alternate reality featuring unstable hosts, a variety of celebrities—both real and fake—and unusual studio action.
Release Date2012-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Self
Episode Count12
Vote Count144
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 Date2010-09-19
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
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 Date2023-07-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count10
Vote Count389
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 Date2020-03-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count165
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 Date2021-09-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count20
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.
Release Date2025-08-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
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 Date2022-01-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
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 Date2021-03-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count545
A new film adaptation of the Street Fighter video game. Plot TBA.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
To celebrate New Year's Eve, Eric does his talk show live in front of a studio audience.
Release Date2012-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
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 Date2015-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Release Date2009-01-16
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count12
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 Date2019-03-08
DepartmentCrew
JobCreative Consultant
Vote Count2
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 Date2003-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2009-01-10
DepartmentCamera
JobGrip
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 Date2018-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date2008-05-27
Vote Count2
