Ryuhei Kitamura Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: In a time when inflated budgets are often used to indicate the amount of bang you'll get for your multiplex buck, Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamura surfaced as something of an oddity. His debut feature, Versus, stunned audiences worldwide with a dizzying, near-exhausting onslaught of cinematic...Read More

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The Midnight Meat Train

Crew: Director

Actors: Bradley Cooper, Leslie Bibb, Brooke Shields, Vinnie Jones, Roger Bart, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A photographer propelled to explore his dark side begins tracking a subway serial killer whose brutal butchery makes for the most nightmarish images ever captured on camera in director Ryuhei Kitamura's adaptation of a short story by horror heavyweight Clive Barker. Leon Kaufman (Bradley Cooper) Read More

8/1/08
Midnight Train

Crew: Director

Actors: Bradley Cooper

Synopsis: Former Alias star Bradley Cooper top-lines this lurid tale of a serial killer who plies his gruesome trade in the cavernous corridors of the subway system and the photographer determined to end his bloody reign. Adapted from a Clive Barker short story which originally appeared in the author's Read More

2007
Godzilla: Final Wars

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rei Kikukawa, Masuiro Matsuoka

Synopsis: Giant monsters are rampaging in cities across the globe, and as the Earth Defense Force struggles to find a way to defeat the malicious mutants, their only hope lies frozen in the Antarctic in Versus director Ryuhei Kitamura futuristic entry into the long-running kaiju series. In the near future Read More

12/11/04
Azumi

Crew: Director

Actors: Aya Ueto, Kenji Kobashi, Hiroki Narimiya, Jô Odagiri, Kazuki Kitamura

Synopsis: Orphaned as a little girl, Azumi (Aya Ueto) is raised in the forest with a group of ten children by their master (Yoshio Harada), who trains them to be peerless assassins. Azumi and Nachi (Shun Oguri) are the strongest of the fighters. When the group comes of age, the master gives them one final Read More

2003
Sky High

Crew: Director

Synopsis: From Japanese director Ryuhei Kitamara (Versus, Azumi) comes this supernatural tale of grief and vengeance based on the popular manga by author Tsutomu Takahashi. When Detective Kanzaki Kohei's (Shosuke Tanihara) wife, Mina, is brutally murdered, his mourning soon gives way to rage and his search Read More

2003
Aragami: The Raging God of Battle

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Takao Osawa, Masaya Kato, Kanae Uotani

Synopsis: Ryuhei Kitamura, director of the cult action hits Versus and Alive, made this samurai movie about a legendary supernatural creature. In the middle of the night, two wounded samurai come upon a remote mountain temple. One of them dies. The other, after recovering from his wounds, meets the occupant Read More

2002
Alive

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Ryuhei Kitamura's Alive, based on a highly popular Japanese series of comic books, begins when convicted killer Tenshu, who murdered the people responsible for raping his girlfriend, survives his trip to the electric chair. Officials give him two choices -- either he takes another trip to the Read More

2002
Versus

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Chieko Misaka, Kenji Matsuda

Synopsis: Evil Dead 2 meets Street Fighter by way of The Matrix in this wild and woolly zombie/yakuza/samurai/kung fu/splatter flick directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. Throughout the world there are 666 portals to the other side; the 444th is Japan and is called the Forest of Resurrection, where good has battled Read More

2000