A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. Read More »
Tag Archives: Takashi Ishii
Orchids Under the Moon (1991) Takashi Ishii, Jinpachi Nezu, Kimiko Yo, Shû Nakajima
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago while he was an accountant for their organization. Read More »
Black Angel Vol. 2 / Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2 (1999) Takashi Ishii, Yûki Amami, Takeshi Yamato, Reiko Kataoka
Assigned to kill a Japanese crime boss, Mayo miscalculates Read More »
The Five / Gonin (1995) Takashi Ishii, Kôichi Satô, Masahiro Motoki, Jinpachi Nezu
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza Read More »
The Black Angel / Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1 (1998) Takashi Ishii, Riona Hazuki, Reiko Takashima, Jinpachi Nezu
Ikko, the six year old daughter of a yakuza gang boss witnesses the brutal slaying Read More »
Five Women / Gonin 2 (1996) Takashi Ishii, Ken Ogata, Shinobu Ôtake, Kimiko Yo
Thrown together by chance during the robbery of a jewelry store by a Yakuza gang Read More »
Alone in the Night / Yoru ga mata kuru (1994) Takashi Ishii, Yui Natsukawa, Jinpachi Nezu, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Nami, the wife of a narcotics cop murdered in the line of duty. Nami is surprised to find that her husband Read More »
Gonin Saga (2015) Takashi Ishii, Masahiro Higashide, Kenta Kiritani, Anna Tsuchiya, Action
Hisamatsu’s son Hayato lives an honest, crime-free life but is best friends with Ogoshi’s son Daisuke, who’s still working as a bodyguard for the gang. It all kicks off when a reporter asks Hayato’s mother to reveal the truth about the original attack on the Goseikei, and soon history is threatening to repeat itself.
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Original Sin / Shinde mo ii (1992) Takashi Ishii, Shinobu Ohtake, Masatoshi Nagase, Hideo Murota, Drama, Thriller, Romance
Continuing his penchant for directing films in the characteristically Japanese genre he virtually created, director Takashi Ishii here presents yet another stylish rape/thriller. Nami is an attractive woman, and she loves her husband, who runs the real estate agency she works at. One day, during a rainstorm, a mysterious drifter stumbles into her and, following her on her way back to the office, asks for (and gets) a job from her husband, over her protests. Not long after that, Nami and the newcomer are trading amorous glances. When the drifter gets her alone in a model house, he rapes her on the floor. For some reason, this doesn’t offend Nami, and she encourages the socially backward man to take her to bed often. Eventually, the two of them decide to do away with her husband, despite the fact that Nami still loves him.
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