
Kurando Mitsutake
Directing
Biography
Kurando Mitsutake is from Tokyo. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Japan, the Japan Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild of America. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, Graduate School of Film. He lives in the United States of America.
Known For

Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.
Heroes

Wannabe writer Betty Suarez is a plain girl from Queens, who is smart, hardworking and savvy but lacks a fashionable sense of style. When publishing mogul Bradford Meade puts his son Daniel in charge of Mode magazine, he hires Betty to be Daniel's new assistant -- mostly because he knows that she may be the only woman in Manhattan with whom the younger man won't sleep.
Ugly Betty

Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural, tries to find his way into the larger story–and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family's buried history.
Interior Chinatown

A team of Arctic geologists stumble across an abandoned laboratory in which the Nazis developed an incredible and brutal secret weapon during the final months of WW2. Deep in the ice, they accidentally awake a deadly army of flying zombie sharks ridden by genetically mutated, undead super-humans, who are unleashed into the skies, wreaking their bloodthirsty revenge on any aircraft that takes to the air. An elite task force is assembled to take on this deadly threat and stop the Sky Sharks from conquering the air, but as time runs out, the task force realises they will have to fight fire with fire, and the stage is set for the greatest flying super-mutant zombie shark air battle the world has ever seen....
Sky Sharks

A look at the making of Rush Hour
A Piece of the Action: Behind the Scenes of Rush Hour

A Japanese giallo about a murderous driver roaming the street in search of prey.
Maniac Driver

A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she must later assemble and use to kill her target before she bleeds to death.
Gun Woman

When a mysterious loner and Karate master Kenji's little sister goes missing in Los Angeles, whoever stands in his way of finding her will face the wrath of a lethal KARATE KILL!
Karate Kill

Set in a bleak future in which the world suffocates under the iron fist of a tyrannical regime. Driven by unyielding determination, Ken Shiro sets out on a perilous mission to find the gate to Hell and save his daughter from the Inferno.
Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell

In the year 20XX, mysterious meteors bombard the Earth and usher in an age of horrific beasts known as 'ANOROC', hunting and killing humans for their life force. The Earth has one last defender against them; her name is 'LION-GIRL'.
Lion-Girl

Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies.
Survival of the Film Freaks

Zombies are running after ! Even with no hope, Azu and her fellows try to survive and think about starting new life after the disaster. But they don't know that the disaster would be crueler than they could have ever imagined.
Moratorium

This short documentary shows the original ending to 'Blade' (1998) and explains why it is not in the final film.
La Magra

40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.
White on Rice

Misaki, living a lonely life in Tokyo for college; decides to go back home to Fukushima for a month on her spring break. But by coming home without a notice, her mother would not welcome her nor let her in the house. She wanders around trying to find a friend to let her stay and fails miserably but ends up finding a small hotel called "Komorebi" looking for a short time live-in worker. There, she starts living with a kind and trustworthy woman, Kinuyo, and a hurt and depressed owner, Goro. A girl with a broken up family and a man with a dark past; their paths in life cross over as they start to change slowly...
A Warm Ray of Light
I happened to get a duralumin case. Its existence will eventually make his life go crazy...
Dead Money

A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife and daughter. Eight years after the massacre, the man has returned to the desert town, now a highly trained samurai swordsman ready to seek justice. But he doesn't know there awaits seven assassins hired by his sworn enemy who want the bounty on his head. Set in nowhere, no time, this bloody modern day fable is a new age hybrid action film with a classic samurai essence and a spaghetti western spirit. This is, "Sushi Western!"
Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf

Maddie is haunted by her past but when the mysterious Mike Donovan shows up, her life turns upside down and her inner demons take the physical form of a demonic bear.
Winnie the Pooh: Master of Puppets

David S. Goyer, Stan Lee, and Wizard magazine's Gareb Shamus discuss the shift from brightly colored superheroes of the 1970s to the darker antiheroes of the '80s and '90s.
Origins of 'Blade': A Look at Dark Comics
A samurai master faces various fighters in battle.