
Ken'ichi Ugana
Directing
Biography
Kenichi Ugana is a Japanese actor, film director, and screenwriter. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University, Faculty of Business Administration. He is the representative director of Vandalism Inc.
Known For

After seeing her friend’s disturbing social media posts, Riko tries to intervene to help her but fails to prevent her from dying a mysterious, violent death. Convinced there is more to the story than a suicide, Riko dives into a world of memes, influencers, and posting for attention. As the pile of bodies grows, and Riko faces her own possible curse, she and her friends travel to Taiwan to find the source of this demonic social media killer.
The Curse

A jaded Japanese movie star stranded in NYC without money or phone meets a passionate indie filmmaker and his crew, leading to an unexpected creative journey that could reignite her love for cinema.
I Fell in Love with a Z-Grade Director in Brooklyn

Misaki was walking down the street at night, feeling lost, when she spotted a large shooting star in the sky. She prayed that she would be happy, but the shooting star was gone in the blink of an eye. Misaki walked away disappointed, but then she suddenly stopped when she heard a strange cry she had never heard before in front of a certain bar. When Misaki entered the bar with Fumiya, an employee of the bar who happened to hear the same voice, they found a strange creature with tentacles...
Extraneous Matter: Another Story

Shinsuke Kujo is a chair craftsman who lures people into his apartment and murders them to use the body parts for constructing a chair. Kato, a representative of a chair company, finds his website on social media and suggests a meeting. She's quickly enamored with him both professionally and personally, unaware of his true nature as a serial killer.
Incomplete Chairs

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The Night Before Upheaval

An unconventional coming-of-age film depicting ganguro gals—girls who tan their skin, use light eyeshadow, grow out their nails, and walk around in platform shoes. The story intertwines the high school days of girls who embraced the ganguro culture and lived their youth to the fullest in a rural town in Ishikawa Prefecture, and their present lives 14 years later as they reach around thirty.
Ganguro Gals Riot

Wakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wakaba are killed one after another. When the murderer is found out, Wakaba realizes what true love is.
Love Will Tear Us Apart

Shibuya in Tokyo, a city that continues to change due to redevelopment. At a house in the corner of Shibuya, Ai dreaming of a model, Mizuho working for the editorial department of a magazine, and musician Erika live together. This story is about the modest cohabitation of the three.
Rolling Marbles

Kenzo and his high school friends live in anguish, believing that there is something that sets them apart from everybody else.
Gumi. Chocolate. Pine.

One day, while Seiya was calling everybody on the phone to tell them "It's me, thank you" on the rooftop of a building, a strange creature with emerald-blue fur, something he had never seen before, descended from the sky. The creature, along with its companions, claimed they had come to exterminate human race. However, through conversations with the humans they encountered, they gradually began to understand each other...
We Are Aliens

When concerned friends visit their bandmate, they’re invited in for some tea… with just a splash of the undead.
Visitors

Compilation of the four short films in the Extraneous Matter series.
Extraneous Matter Complete Edition

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Extrand

A rock ‘n’ roll band drop in unannounced on a friend and find themselves plummeting into a wackadoo reverie of monsters and mayhem.
Visitors (Complete Edition)

From rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana, a misfit horror-themed rock band moves to the Japanese countryside to write the greatest punk anthem in the world.
The Gesuidouz

According to a Japanese urban legend, those who didn’t get down and dirty by the time they hit thirty, will be transformed into a superhero. Mikio Hoshimura is a 29-year-old incompetent pencil pusher at an insurance firm. He’s at the bottom of the company’s rankings. His social life is below zero, he’s got no girlfriend, only tons of manga’s to get keep him warm during the winter. But, on the eve of his thirtieth birthday at a team-building event, he has the bright idea to stand up for the first time of his life against the #MeDon’tCare coolios of his office when they start harassing Akiyama, the company’s newest recruit. If he had hoped to obtain the key to his chastity belt with this, he’s dead-wrong.
Wild Virgins

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The Girls

Set at a time where entertainment like music, movies and novels are all banned. Mizuto and Tokio work at a factory making screws. Their lives are monotonous. One day, they discover a place where music has been preserved and they are attracted to music. They learn of “Sanoba Noizu” where music is performed secretly and dream of going there. They meet Hikari whose father was killed for having music.
Goodbye Silence

In the house where a father and daughter live together, a heavy silence lingers, and an unbridgeable distance remains. The father toils at an inexplicable task, while the daughter goes through her days in a quiet routine. But soon, a strange change overtakes his body.
Oscillation

One day, a strange thing comes to her, who is suffering from being sexless with her boyfriend.