Gakuryū Ishii
| Gakuryu Ishii | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 15, 1957 Fukuoka, Japan |
| Other names | Sogo Ishii |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Website |
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Gakuryu Ishii (石井 岳龍 Ishii Gakuryū, born January 15, 1957), formerly known as Sogo Ishii (石井 聰互 Ishii Sōgo), is a Japanese filmmaker.
Career
In 1982, Ishii directed Burst City, an action film about a wild gang of quasi-mutant bikers who ride into a town staging protests against the construction of a nearby nuclear reactor plant. The film starred members of Japanese punk bands The Roosters, The Rockers, The Stalin and Inu, among others. He became a favorite among rebel and punk cineastes in Japan. The film is also credited as a precursor to the underground Japanese cyberpunk movement that emerged later in the decade.[1]
Ishii directed Electric Dragon 80.000 V, a black-and-white 55-minute film starring Tadanobu Asano and Masatoshi Nagase, in 2001.[2]
In 2012, he returned with Isn't Anyone Alive?,[3] changing his name Sogo Ishii to Gakuryu Ishii.[4]
His 2013 film, The Flower of Shanidar, stars Go Ayano and Hana Kuroki.[5]
Filmography
Feature films
- Panic in High School (1976)
- Solitude of One Divided by 880,000 (1977)
- Panic in High School (1978)
- Crazy Thunder Road (1980)
- Burst City (1982)
- The Crazy Family (1984)
- Halber Mensch (1985)
- Dumb Numb Live Friction 1989 (1989)
- Tokyo Blood (1993)
- Angel Dust (1994)
- August in the Water (1995)
- Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)
- Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2000)
- Dead End Run (2003)
- Isn't Anyone Alive? (2012)
- The Flower of Shanidar (2013)
Short films
- Charge! Hakata Gangsters (1978)
- Shuffle (1981)
- Asia Strikes Back (1983)
- The Master of Shiatsu (1989)
- Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
- Toki yo Tomare, Kimi wa Utsukushii (2002)
- Mirrored Mind (2004)
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
- Neo Ultra Q (2013)
References
- ↑ Player, Mark (13 May 2011). "Post-Human Nightmares: The World of Japanese Cyberpunk". Midnight Eye. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
- ↑ Schilling, Mark (29 August 2001). "'Electric Dragon 80000V'". The Japan Times.
- ↑ Scheib, Ronnie (15 August 2012). "Review: "Isn't Anyone Alive?"". Variety.
- ↑ Matthijs, Niels (29 January 2013). "DVD Review: ISN'T ANYONE ALIVE? Reinvents Ishii Sogo As Ishii Gakuryu". Twitch Film.
- ↑ Schilling, Mark (11 July 2013). "'Shanidaru no Hana (The Flower of Shanidar)'". The Japan Times.
External links
- Official website
- Gakuryu Ishii at the Internet Movie Database
- 石井聰亙 at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)