Jon Moritsugu

Jon Moritsugu

Born: February 15, 1965
in Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S
Jon Moritsugu is an American underground filmmaker. Jon Moritsugu started filmmaking in 1985 when he went to school at Brown University. Moritsugu's films are known for their lo-fi aesthetic.

Movies for Jon Moritsugu...

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Title: 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Released: December 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.
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Martini Shot
Title: Martini Shot
Character: Himself
Released: December 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Commissioned for the 2019 30th Anniversary shorts omnibus, 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing.
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Pig Death Machine
Title: Pig Death Machine
Character: Sushi Sue
Released: March 8, 2013
Type: Movie
A very special shipment of tainted pork arrives in Santa Fe, N.M., transforming anyone who eats it into a brilliant, but psychotic, braniac -- including a dimwitted bimbo and a punk botanist who can now hear her beloved plants.
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The Endless Possibility of Sky
Title: The Endless Possibility of Sky
Character: Poppy
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Sex and drugs-getting hooked and getting off –can be addicting. For Drew (Brad Hallowell), eking out a mundane life in Waterville, Maine, it is resisting the illicit pleasure in New York; for Mistress Datina (Philly), it means operating a sex and drug den to cope with her life. In his visually and sexually stimulating film, director Verow introduces multiple characters and overlapping narratives that portray the physical and emotional faces of addiction. For Rob (newcomer Rob Ordonez), drugs and sex are means of finding a bed to sleep in every night – while they provide Christian (Michael Vaccaro) a means of dealing with his helplessness and loss. A writer records these characters and their unforgettable stories. The themes are universal, but the possibilities are endless.
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Scumrock
Title: Scumrock
Character: Jared Okubo
Released: August 28, 2002
Type: Movie
A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity.
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Fame Whore
Title: Fame Whore
Character: Greenberg #1
Released: March 19, 1997
Type: Movie
This film involves three interwoven stories with the only seeming connection being the delusions of the involved leads. In the first element of the film, a hot-tempered world tennis star loses endorsement contracts when the press outs him even though he claims the report is false. In the second, a talent-less woman struggles to make it in the world of fashion design or the music video business. In the last, an animal activist runs a dog-adoption agency and has an imaginary friend who appears in a St. Bernard suit.
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Mod Fuck Explosion
Title: Mod Fuck Explosion
Character: Kazumi (Biker)
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
West Side Story meets Rumble in the Bronx meets A Clockwork Orange. Bizarre tale of London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are constantly at war with a gang of Asian Bikers. Amidst this turmoil, London and her soul mate M16 search for meaning in a phantasmagoria without it.
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Terminal USA
Title: Terminal USA
Character: Marvin / Katzumi
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
In a Japanese-American family, the mother is stealing the terminally ill grandpa's morphine, the airhead sister is having sex with the family lawyer, one brother gets perfect grades but is hiding a secret gay love of skinheads, and the other brother is a junkie. Over the course of one evening, the family falls apart due to their bizarre behaviour.