Takashi Ito Movies

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

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...

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to...

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

A field of wilted sunflowers, a group of public housing units turned into ruins. Two girls who are like alter egos of each other. They wander around...

Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.

Fragmentary stories of two students with a video camera and an old butoh dancer who finds himself followed by a woman are interwoven.

Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace...

"With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making GHOST of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the...

"A long time ago, I would often dream of the uncanny and mystical landscape that appears in moonlight. Irrational landscapes and spaces filled with...

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was...

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983...

A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways. Designs drawn...

Three high school students are running through their adolescence, feeling frustrated and empty at the reality of being 18 years old. The film depicts...

"The further developed and completed version of a 15-second advertisement for an interior design firm on which I had worked. It repeats over and over...

The film follows the common sense storytelling of a dramatic film in which people meet other people and create relationships, but instead of...

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

Looking for a place to die? This work depicts the interwining, melding and chaotic coming together of a story of a woman in black wandering trough a...

"His films are like a roller-coaster. His way of throwing the act of seeing into utter confusion is an attack on the eyes in their corporeal...