Gakuryu Ishii Movies

  • 2001
    Electric Dragon 80.000 V

    Electric Dragon 80.000 V

    Electric Dragon 80.000 V

    6.92001HD

    A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.

    Electric Dragon 80.000 V
  • 1984
    The Crazy Family

    The Crazy Family

    The Crazy Family

    6.61984HD

    The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as...

    The Crazy Family
  • 1982
    Burst City

    Burst City

    Burst City

    6.11982HD

    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...

    Burst City
  • 1995
    August in the Water

    August in the Water

    August in the Water

    6.81995HD

    A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.

    August in the Water
  • 1980
    Crazy Thunder Road

    Crazy Thunder Road

    Crazy Thunder Road

    5.51980HD

    When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the...

    Crazy Thunder Road
  • 1997
    Labyrinth of Dreams

    Labyrinth of Dreams

    Labyrinth of Dreams

    6.91997HD

    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...

    Labyrinth of Dreams
  • 2001
    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    6.7822001HD

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

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
  • 1994
    Angel Dust

    Angel Dust

    Angel Dust

    6.81994HD

    A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.

    Angel Dust
  • 2018
    Punk Samurai Slash Down

    Punk Samurai Slash Down

    Punk Samurai Slash Down

    5.32018HD

    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 hired by...

    Punk Samurai Slash Down
  • 2016
    Bitter Honey

    Bitter Honey

    Bitter Honey

    4.52016HD

    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...

    Bitter Honey
  • 2005
    Mirrored Mind

    Mirrored Mind

    Mirrored Mind

    6.42005HD

    An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.

    Mirrored Mind
  • 2011
    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    3.82011HD

    An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
  • 1991
    March Comes In Like a Lion

    March Comes In Like a Lion

    March Comes In Like a Lion

    6.71991HD

    The film begins with some Polaroids of a young boy and a young girl. A female voice over tells us who these people are. They are brother and sister,...

    March Comes In Like a Lion
  • 2004
    Jeonju Digital Project 2004

    Jeonju Digital Project 2004

    Jeonju Digital Project 2004

    32004HD

    Three digital short films: 'Influenza' by Bong Joon-ho, 'Kyo-shin' by Sogo Ishii, 'Dance Me to the End of Love' by Yu Lik-wai

    Jeonju Digital Project 2004
  • 2009
    Instant Swamp

    Instant Swamp

    Instant Swamp

    72009HD

    A woman finds out her father is not her real one after her mother falls into a coma while searching for a mythical creature. She decides to meet her...

    Instant Swamp
  • 1978
    Panic in High School

    Panic in High School

    Panic in High School

    6.71978HD

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

    Panic in High School
  • 2024
    The Box Man

    The Box Man

    The Box Man

    02024HD

    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...

    The Box Man
  • 2015
    That's It

    That's It

    That's It

    6.12015HD

    Samao Daikoku’s family register was taken which keeps him from escaping the underground life that he has led. To get away once and for all,...

    That's It
  • 1993
    Tokyo Blood

    Tokyo Blood

    Tokyo Blood

    7.21993HD

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

    Tokyo Blood
  • 2023
    Almost People

    Almost People

    Almost People

    82023HD

    Four dramas about brothers and sisters, each of whom lacks a certain emotion.

    Almost People