Most Popular Gakuryu Ishii Trailers
Total trailers found: 51
03 April 1981
Pocky, an upbeat high-schooler, is told she will die in three days by a psychic whose predictions always come true.
16 April 2019
Future Imaginations is a special animated PV released to celebrate the launch of the "Reiwa Novel Awx
30 October 1993
Tokyo Blood is an omnibus film of 4 short stories featuring various characters entrapped in Tokyo landscapes.
30 September 2023
Four dramas about brothers and sisters, each of whom lacks a certain emotion.
23 September 1994
Every Monday, a young woman is murdered in the subway, leading psychiatrist Setsuko Suma to investigate Dr.
24 June 1984
Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man of the house takes it upon himself to course-correct before it takes the last of their sanity.
09 April 1982
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.
18 February 2012
In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random.
20 July 2013
A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar".
16 June 2015
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Philippe-Emmanuel Sorlin, originally aired 16 June 2015.
23 May 2009
A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature.
29 April 1984
An in-depth and stylish look at the hardcore punk scene in Japan at the late half of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's.
04 November 2006
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
24 May 1980
When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals.
23 August 2024
A photographer becomes intrigued by a mysterious man who has chosen to filter his experience of the world through a cardboard box placed over his head.
30 March 2005
An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
24 October 1979
Film directed by Ryuji Ohya.
09 September 1995
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
08 February 2001
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
27 May 2015
Samao Daikoku seeks a way out of the underground life that he has led. He is tortured by a gang boss after stealing a hard disk containing personal information on runaways, homeless people and prostitutes, and the mystery behind his past is revealed.
07 October 2001
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism.
19 August 1978
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.
30 October 1993
In four chapters, the film anatomises the chaotic life of a radio agony uncle.who is having simultanr
22 December 2011
An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema.
30 June 2018
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.
18 October 2003
A collection of three short films by Japanese visual genius Sogo Ishii. Each short focuses on the protagonists running away from a threat.
30 October 1993
Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin
13 April 1991
Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover.
01 April 2016
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 adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness.
06 July 1986
A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan.
01 January 1982
Feature film, plot unknown
30 October 1993
The encounter and parting of a man and woman in Hokkaido
05 December 1981
Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi.
05 December 2006
Video collection of live performances by THE STALIN in Shinjuku during the 1980s indie era.
15 February 1997
Tomiko falls in love with Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being the Tokyo bus driver serial killer, who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.
01 January 1978
Known for his striking visuals and outlandish subject matter, maverick director Sogo Ishii is considered to be the master of Japanese punk cinema.
01 January 1980
A young man wakes up one morning to find that his head has transformed into a large cabbage. He quickly becomes a source of bemusement, desire and hostility to all those around him.
01 January 1989
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.
11 October 2001
Promotional video for Chara's song "Skirt", directed by Sogo Ishii.
01 January 2004
Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the Ei
24 November 1976
A high school student has a mental breakdown and brings a gun to class. A standoff against the police ensues.
01 January 1983
At an isolated location training camp for soldiers with supernatural powers makes a man revolt, causing a war to break out among the soldiers.
25 March 2023
Gakuryu Ishii, who is a professor of film course at Kobe Institute of Technology, suddenly disappears after falling into a mad state driven by his own idea of "self-revolutionary movie struggle work".
21 April 1979
Matsui's debut film, "Rusty Empty Can" (1979), was photographed by Sogo Ishii; nonetheless the film turned out to be a serious and emotionally painful one unlike Ishii's speedy roller-coaster movies.
01 January 1996
A swindler returns to her hideout at night and finds a stranger.
01 January 2005
A collection of gorgeous footage of Balinese landscapes shot with reckless abandon, set to a gamelan soundtrack.
01 January 1977
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.
10 November 2020
An exclusive new 56-minute interview with the director of Burst City.
04 November 2006
Amy and Sonny are two girls with contrasting personalities. Their "secret hideout" is an antique shop.
