Gakuryû Ishii
1957 (67 лет)1/2 Mensch
Gakuryû Ishii
Einstürzende Neubauten, Mark Chung
A visual documentary of Einstürzende Neubauten, the German underground band, by Japanese cult director Sogo Ishii, made during their 1985 tour of Japan. The band makes an elaborate and remarkably choreographed appearance in the ruins of an old ironworks which was scheduled for demolition; footage of same was incorporated into the movie and a brief appearance on stage.
1/2 Man
逆噴射家族
Gakuryû Ishii
Katsuya Kobayashi, Mitsuko Baisho
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. But all is not well: the house is infested by termites and the family starts cracking up: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide.
The Crazy Family
シャッフル
Gakuryû Ishii
Yosuke Nakajima, Tatsuya Mori
Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run from police who would arrest him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi. At the same time, he wants revenge on the yakuza member Kimura who got her stuck in drugs. The entire film consists of a long hunting-scene.
Shuffle
Shiatsu Oja
Gakuryû Ishii
Tokujiro Namikoshi, Anna Hole
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. The next morning, something starts to happen with the woman ...
The Master of Shiatsu
高校大パニック
Gakuryû Ishii, Yukihiro Sawada
Shigeru Yamamoto, Miyoko Akaza
A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher's lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher's chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.
Panic in High School
三月のライオン
Hitoshi Yazaki
Bang-ho Cho, Yoshiko Yura
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, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told her brother that she would marry him.
March Comes in Like a Lion
