Gakuryu Ishii Movies

The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese...

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors...

An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.

A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her...

When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the...

A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.

The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister,...

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and...

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets hired by...

A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one...

A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his...

A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is...

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

A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

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...

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...

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...

Known for his striking visuals and outlandish subject matter, maverick director Sogo Ishii is considered to be the master of Japanese punk cinema. In...