Movies: Gakuryu Ishii

  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

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    An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, E...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 1984
    Never Mind a Little Rain

    Never Mind a Little Rain (1984)

    Never Mind a Little Rain

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    An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's. Features bands such as GASTUNK, THE EXECUTE, GAUZE among others....

    Never Mind a Little Rain
  • 2003
    Dead End Run

    Dead End Run (2003)

    Dead End Run

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    Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common....

    Dead End Run
  • 2015
    Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

    Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague (2015)

    Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

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    A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015....

    Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague
  • 1993
    Tokyo Blood

    Tokyo Blood (1993)

    Tokyo Blood

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    Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes....

    Tokyo Blood
  • 1981
    Shuffle

    Shuffle (1981)

    Shuffle

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    Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-scene....

    Shuffle
  • 2015
    That's It

    That's It (2015)

    That's It

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    Samao Daikoku seeks a way out of the underground life that he has led. He is tortured by a gang boss after stealing a hard disk containing personal information on runaways, homeless people and prostitutes, and the mystery behind his past is revealed....

    That's It
  • 1993
    Korosiya Ami

    Korosiya Ami (1993)

    Korosiya Ami

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    Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin...

    Korosiya Ami
  • 1981
    MOMENT

    MOMENT (1981)

    MOMENT

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    Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true. Along the way, she talks about boyfriends with her two friends, meets a strange boy with heart disease, and regularly bumps into a ser...

    MOMENT
  • 2006
    What's a Director?

    What's a Director? (2006)

    What's a Director?

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    Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association...

    What's a Director?
  • 1980
    Tokyo Cabbageman K

    Tokyo Cabbageman K (1980)

    Tokyo Cabbageman K

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    A young man wakes up one morning to find that his head has transformed into a large cabbage. He quickly becomes a source of bemusement, desire and hostility to all those around him....

    Tokyo Cabbageman K
  • 2012
    Isn't Anyone Alive?

    Isn't Anyone Alive? (2012)

    Isn't Anyone Alive?

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    In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life....

    Isn't Anyone Alive?
  • 1993
    Wild Side

    Wild Side (1993)

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    In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultaneous affairs with a sado-masochistic call-girl and the wife of an aggrieved tour-bus driver...

    Wild Side
  • 1978
    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata

    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata (1978)

    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata

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    Known for his striking visuals and outlandish subject matter, maverick director Sogo Ishii is considered to be the master of Japanese punk cinema. In ‘Attack!’, biker gangs meet the Japanese punk scene. Continuation of the filming of "High School Pan...

    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata
  • 1983
    Asia Strikes Back

    Asia Strikes Back (1983)

    Asia Strikes Back

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    At an isolated location training camp for soldiers with supernatural powers makes a man revolt, causing a war to break out among the soldiers....

    Asia Strikes Back
  • 2001
    Skirt

    Skirt (2001)

    Skirt

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    Promo film by Sogo ishii...

    Skirt
  • 1989
    The Master of Shiatsu

    The Master of Shiatsu (1989)

    The Master of Shiatsu

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    An elderly man and a young woman is in a bar where they tenderly begin to touch each other's hands. Soon they find themselves in a room where the woman has shiatsu massage of the man, putting her in ecstasy. The next morning, something starts to happ...

    The Master of Shiatsu
  • 1996
    Lonely Planet

    Lonely Planet (1996)

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    A swindler returns to her hideout at night and finds a stranger....

    Lonely Planet
  • 1976
    Panic High School

    Panic High School (1976)

    Panic High School

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    A high school student has a mental breakdown and brings a gun to class. A standoff against the police ensues....

    Panic High School
  • 2023
    Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle

    Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle (2023)

    Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle

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    Gakuryu Ishii, who is a professor of film course at Kobe Institute of Technology, suddenly disappears after falling into a mad state driven by his own idea of "self-revolutionary movie struggle work". His assistant professor Takeda and assistant Tani...

    Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle