Gen Sekiguchi

Gen Sekiguchi (関口現, born February 10, 1968 in Saitama Prefecture) is an award-winning Japanese television advertisement director. Outside of TV commercials, he directed the short films Bus Panic!!! (2001) and Worst Contact (2000) and the feature film Survive Style 5+ (2004), starring Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Jai West and Vinnie Jones. He also directed and wrote the segment 'Sebiro Yashiki' ("The House of Abandoned Businessmen") in the compilation film Quirky Guys and Gals, and music videos for band Supercar, Polysics, and Smap.

Quirky Guys and Gals (2011)

The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yôsuke Fujita  •  Masaya Kakehi  •  Tomoko Matsunashi  •  Gen Sekiguchi  •  Mipo O
CAST:  Nanami Sakuraba  •  Emiko Kawamura  •  Kumiko Shiratori  •  Tomoya Nakamura

The movie consists of 4 stories each telling how people survive on life-death choice. The story titles are: Cheering Girls, Boy? meets girl., Claim Night! and The House Full Of 'Abandoned' Businessmen.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yôsuke Fujita  •  Masaya Kakehi  •  Tomoko Matsunashi  •  Gen Sekiguchi  •  Mipo O
CAST:  Nanami Sakuraba  •  Emiko Kawamura  •  Kumiko Shiratori  •  Tomoya Nakamura

Survive Style 5+ (2004)

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gen Sekiguchi
CAST:  Tadanobu Asano  •  Reika Hashimoto  •  Kyoko Koizumi  •  Hiroshi Abe

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gen Sekiguchi
CAST:  Tadanobu Asano  •  Reika Hashimoto  •  Kyoko Koizumi  •  Hiroshi Abe

Bus Panic!!! (2001)

A man hijacks a bus in Japan, absurdity ensues.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gen Sekiguchi
CAST:  Jai West  •  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi  •  Masanori Hata

A man hijacks a bus in Japan, absurdity ensues.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gen Sekiguchi
CAST:  Jai West  •  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi  •  Masanori Hata

Worst Contact (2000)

In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gen Sekiguchi
CAST:  Jai West  •  Takao Osawa

In the near future, a man undergoes an experiment by sharing living quarters with an alien aboard a space station. Based on a Yasutaka Tsutsui play.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gen Sekiguchi
CAST:  Jai West  •  Takao Osawa

SMAP Short Films (2001)

Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHINGO; 治療; Good-bye, cruel world; ROLLING BOMBER SPECIAL; 菅原さん ・コンセント ・トイレ ・のれない ・脱出不可能. Produced for and aired together as TV special of SMAPxSMAP  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuhito Ishii  •  Gen Sekiguchi  •  Shunichiro Miki  •  Tetsuya Nakashima  •  Satoshi Tomioka  •  Kenji Yamauchi  •  Masahiro Takata
CAST:  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi  •  Shingo Katori  •  Jai West  •  Kei Yamamoto

Short films by top CM directors and CG creators: MUSIC POWER GO! GO! ダモン君の巻; BUS PANIC!!!; GAME SHINGO; 治療; Good-bye, cruel world; ROLLING BOMBER SPECIAL; 菅原さん ・コンセント ・トイレ ・のれない ・脱出不可能. Produced for and aired together as TV special of SMAPxSMAP  (more)

DIRECTION:  Katsuhito Ishii  •  Gen Sekiguchi  •  Shunichiro Miki  •  Tetsuya Nakashima  •  Satoshi Tomioka  •  Kenji Yamauchi  •  Masahiro Takata
CAST:  Tsuyoshi Kusanagi  •  Shingo Katori  •  Jai West  •  Kei Yamamoto