Gakuryū Ishii

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 ...

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken ...

A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on ...

Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female ...

Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes. Release: Tokyo Blood 1993 tt0226004 ...

A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he’s climbing a cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences intense fits of violence in which ...

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, ...

Visions of a bleak, post-apocalyptic urban wasteland strewn with twisted hunks of mechanical wreckage. A rasping electronic buzz on the ...

Junoshin Kake is a ronin. To get hired by the Kurokaze Han, he lies and tells them that a religious group is trying to destroy them. He gets ...

An elegiac ode to a loner who finds it difficult to fit in and the inevitable eruption of his frustration, Isolation of 1/880000 tells the story ...

Daikoku and Ami want to escape their wayward lives. When they are thrown together they set out to kill a yakuza boss and also blackmail the thugs ...

Akako, a shape-shifting goldfish in the form of a coquettish nymphet clad in diaphanous red dresses, naively plays the role of erotic muse and ...

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. ...

Renowned cyber-punk director ISHII Sogo strays from his roots, entering the realm of the subconscious with Mirrored Mind, a composed, ...

Set in a university campus attached to a hospital, “Ikiterumono wa Inainoka” revolves around a girl who escapes from the hospital, a ...

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