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Tag Archives: Gakuryû Ishii
That’s It AKA Soredake (2015) Gakuryû Ishii, Gô Ayano, Yohei Matsukado, Erina Mizuno
Daikoku and Ami want to escape their wayward lives. When they are thrown together they set out to kill a yakuza boss Read More »
Panic in High School (1978) Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada, Shigeru Yamamoto, Atsuko Asano, Miyoko Akaza
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently Read More »
August in the Water (1995) Gakuryû Ishii, Rena Komine, Shinsuke Aoki, Reiko Matsuo
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe. Read More »
Angel Dust (1994) Gakuryû Ishii, Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa
Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. Read More »
Crazy Thunder Road (1980) Gakuryû Ishii, Tatsuo Yamada, Masamitsu Ohike, Kôji Nanjô
When the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo falls in love with a barmaid and quickly loses his rebellious ideals, the rest of the gang feels betrayed. Read More »
Labyrinth of Dreams (1997) Gakuryû Ishii, Rena Komine, Tadanobu Asano, Kotomi Kyôno, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven by the handsome Niitaka. Tomiko had received a letter from her best friend Tsuyako Read More »
Mirrored Mind (2005) Gakuryû Ishii, Miwako Ichikawa, Yuki Inomata, Kou Machida, Drama
Renowned cyber-punk director ISHII Sogo strays from his roots, entering the realm of the subconscious with Mirrored Mind, a composed, contemplative and also a very personal film. Read More »
Burst City (1982) Gakuryû Ishii, Michirô Endô, Shigeru Izumiya, Takanori Jinnai, Action, Music, Sci-Fi
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 living. Read More »
Dead End Run (2003) Gakuryû Ishii, Tadanobu Asano, Urara Awata, Mikako Ichikawa, Action, Thriller
Dead End Run is an hour length collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Ishii Sogo. Read More »
The Crazy Family / Gyakufunsha kazoku (1984) Gakuryû Ishii, Katsuya Kobayashi, Mitsuko Baishô, Yoshiki Arizono, Comedy, Drama
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 cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he’s losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family’s “sickness” that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide…
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