Direction: Sogo Ishii

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Shinsuke Aoki · Rena Komine · Kou Machida · Reiko Matsuo

Synopsis After an accident, the teenage girl Isuku gets super powers, and understand that she now has a special role in the universe.

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Rena Komine · Tadanobu Asano · Kotomi Kyono · Tomoka Kurotani

Synopsis Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Niitaka. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako, a conductor in another bus company, just after Tsuyako was killed in a bus accident. Tsuyako wrote...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Katsuya Kobayashi · Mitsuko Baisho · Yoshiki Arizono · Youki Kudoh

Synopsis The Kobayashi family finally get the chance to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment in favour of the suburban house of their dreams. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Masatoshi Nagase · Masakatsu Funaki

Synopsis This comic-book style story stars Tadanobu Asano as Dragon Eye Morrison, who was electrocuted as a child but survived, and now must do battle with his nemesis, Thunderbolt Buddha.

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Kaho Minami · Takeshi Wakamatsu · Etsushi Toyokawa · Jin Akiyama

Synopsis Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who Setsuko used to date....

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Michirô Endô · Shigeru Izumiya · Takanori Jinnai · Kou Machida

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Yosuke Nakajima · Tatsuya Mori · Shigeru Muroi · Genjiro Amato

Synopsis Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run, both away from the police who want him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi, and towards the yakuza Kimura, from whom he wants to exact revenge for getting her hooked on drugs. The...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Masanobu Umezu

Synopsis A high school student snaps and brings a rifle to school with every intention of using it on his teachers and classmates. Sogo ISHII's debut short film PANIC HIGH SCHOOL was shot on 8mm, but it encompasses much of the...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Synopsis In 1983, Ishii teamed up with Toshiyuki "Kiku" Shibayama, singer of the now defunct Sunhouse, to form Sogo Ishii and the Bacillus Army. The impromptu band released only one record, a concept album of sorts entitled Asia Strikes Back. On...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Rin Takanashi · Mai Takahashi · Kiyohiko Shibukawa · Shôta Sometani

Synopsis Sogo Ishii, now called Gakuryu Ishii is a punk director whose films, Shuffle, Panic in High School, influenced people like Shinya Tsukamoto – and not the other way. But since 2003, almost no news from Ishii. Hopefully, he’s finally managed...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Shôta Sometani · Erina Mizuno · Gou Ayano · Jun Murakami

Synopsis Samao Daikoku’s (Shota Sometani) family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all, Samao Daikoku breaks into Daikichi Ebisu's (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) coin locker to steal gold....

Direction Sogo Ishii

Synopsis A lonely man in Tokyo. Friendly gestures from strangers and sudden encounters with old friends are the only pillars available for the man about to slip into the abyss of absolute loneliness.

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Yusuke Iseya · Masatoshi Nagase · Urara Awata

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Shigeru Izumiya

Synopsis Gang war breaks out in the streets of Hakata in a feature length Sogo Ishii’s film that is more facinating in depicting its own time than as a story driven movie. The film doesn’t shine technically, but does offer an...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Masatoshi Nagase · Daisuke Ryû · Masakatsu Funaki

Synopsis Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as "the demons"....

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Masamitsu Ohike · Tatsuo Yamada · Koji Nanjo · Nenji Kobayashi

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Gou Ayano · Kanji Furutachi · Ayumi Ito · Yuiko Kariya

Synopsis 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 in full bloom, the flower produces a substance which is then sold at a high...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Fumi Nikaidou · Ren Osugi · Yoko Maki · Kengo Kora

Synopsis Akago (Fumi Nikaido) is a red goldfish able to change into a girl. She possesses a pure and sensuous side. She lives with an old male writer (Ren Osugi) whom she calls “Ojisama.” One day, the ghost of Yuriko Tamura...

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Miwako Ichikawa · Yuki Inomata · Kou Machida · Kiyohiko Shibukawa

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Tadanobu Asano · Koichi Sato · Ayana Shiramoto

Synopsis A man with a cardboard box over his head wanders the streets of Tokyo. Peering at the world through a peephole, he incessantly writes down in a notebook what he can see. The photographer Myself spots the man and is...