Biography
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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Bad Trip
2021
Director, Story
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.
KRFT PUNK'S Political Party!
2019
Creative Consultant
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...
The Passage
2018
Director, Writer
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 A...
Unemployable
2015
Director, Executive Producer
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...
The Eric Andre New Year's Eve Spooktacular
2012
Director, Writer
To celebrate New Year's Eve, Eric does his talk show live in front of a studio audience.
SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
2010
as Self
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his cl...
Aardvark
2010
as Darius Szopa
A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.
Aardvark
2010
Director, Writer
A blind man searches for answers after a horrific act of violence.
You Wont Miss Me
2009
Director of Photography
A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital.
Circledrawers
2009
Grip
Welcome to world of the Circledrawers - lowly janitors of the Almighty's imperfect system, angels living among us and performing the most mundane of t...
Water in Milk Exists
2008
In cooperation with the Swiss Institute, Lawrence Weiner teamed up with cinematographer Kiki Allgeier to realize WATER IN MILK EXISTS, a fresh skin f...
Coda
2003
Director
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.
Dogma
1999
as Stygian Triplet
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...
The Best Bad Thing
1997
as Zenny Hata
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 l...
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back
1995
as Justin Banning
A martial arts instructor comes to the defense of a schoolteacher who has taken a stand against a local white supremacist organization.
72 Hours
N/A
Director
Street Fighter
N/A
Director
A new film adaptation of the Street Fighter video game. Plot TBA.