Acting
On the bus passing through a quiet countryside, picks up a weird woman dressed man who turns out to be a cutthroat starting to kill the passengers one by one aiming to achieve the love from the guy on board whom he had a crush on.
In 2018, director Sakamoto was working on a script for his new movie "Baby Assassins." He learns of a hitman business network called "Kansai Hitman Association" and applies for interviews as a reference for writing scripts. He is introduced to Masayuki Kunioka, a freelancer who is known as the strongest hitman in Kyoto. Sakamoto decides to follow Kunioka in his day-to-day life. One day, Kunioka kills the wrong person due to miscommunication with the client and is targeted by both the hitmen sent from the furious client and those who are aiming for revenge on behalf of the victim.
In this adventure, Kunioka saves the life of Manaka Takuya, a part-time freelance assassin who botches a big gun procurement assignment. Due to this incident, Manaka is suspended from the hitman association and his father, the former number one ranked hitman in Kyoto, drags him back to the family home to do chores. When Kunioka checks up on his former brother-in-arms, he finds Manaka has become domesticated but the reappearance of unioka reawakens Manaka’s fighting spirit and the young man challenges his father to a duel as part of his return to walking the path of an assassin. In order to defeat his father, however, Manaka will have to embark on intense training…
Arakawa Ao lives happily on his own and hardly ever leaves Shimokitazawa, where he works at a vintage clothing shop, goes to occasional concerts and hangs out at his favorite bar. Then, he gets an unusual request to appear in an independent film.
Kujiranami (Whale wave). Despair swallowed by the world peeking through the gap in the door...
Three high school girls spending their final summer in the drama club. A woman who longs for the sounds of the town and tries to stop time. A fisherman living while facing an inevitable generational change. A man who has moved to the town and grows vegetables while waiting for spring. The sounds of everyday life they create are gentle and quiet, yet the sounds that flow there exist only in that town, and they are also sounds that stir everyone’s memories.
Yuta, who was fatally wounded for the sake of his favorite child, is bedridden for the rest of his life. At the same time, his childhood friend Yuka has been taking "rustics" she has collected through a matching app to the other world one after another. And then, the evil hand crept up on her...
Ordinary college students dropped by a strange village on the way to their camp. Persuaded by a seemingly friendly villager to stay over, but brutal killings start to occur in the following morning.
A two part collaboration series between Yugo Sakamoto (and his Kunioka series) and the fashion label Black Brain Clothing.
