Direction: Sogo Ishii

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Mai Hosho · Hairi Katagiri · Masashi Kojima · Suzuki Matsuo

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

Direction Sogo Ishii

Synopsis A collection of gorgeous footage of Balinese landscapes shot with reckless abandon, set to a gamelan soundtrack.

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tokujiro Namikoshi · Anna Hole

Synopsis 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....

Direction Shinji Aoyama · Aki Kaurismäki · Michael Glawogger · Sogo Ishii

Direction Sogo Ishii

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Gou Ayano · Masahiro Higashide · Keiko Kitagawa

Synopsis In search of employment and a permanent position and having committed murder the ronin Kake Junoshin tells the Kurokaze ('black wave') Han clan that a religious cult is aiming for their destruction. This gets him in, but he is soon...

Direction Bong Joon-ho · Sogo Ishii · Nelson Yu Lik-wai

Cast Yoon Je-Moon · Ko Su-hee · Miwako Ichikawa · Yuki Inomata

Direction Sogo Ishii

Synopsis A visual documentary of Einstuerzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks (which...

Direction Kenji Aoki · Shinji Aoyama · Alex Cox · Koji Hagiuda

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Sadao Abe · Robert Baldwin · Pâko Hayashiya

Synopsis Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike’s so down on his luck he’ll take any case, from...

Direction Yû Irie · Sogo Ishii · Yu Nakai · Kiyotaka Taguchi

Cast Seiichi Tanabe · Rin Takanashi · Hiroyuke Onoue · Masahiko Shimada

Direction Sogo Ishii · Yukihiro Sawada

Cast Shigeru Yamamoto · Atsuko Asano · Minoru Uchida · Hideaki Esumi

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