Gakuryu Ishii Movies
- 2023
Almost People
Almost People82023HD
Four dramas about brothers and sisters, each of whom lacks a certain emotion.
- 1995
August in the Water
August in the Water6.91995HD
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
- 1978
Panic in High School
Panic in High School6.71978HD
A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming...
- 2001
Electric Dragon 80.000 V
Electric Dragon 80.000 V6.92001HD
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
- 2024
The Box Man
The Box Man02024HD
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...
- 1982
Burst City
Burst City6.11982HD
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...
- 2001
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle6.82001HD
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...
- 2003
Dead End Run
Dead End Run6.52003HD
Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common.
- 1993
Korosiya Ami
Korosiya Ami01993HD
Ami, a girl who works as a flower arranger, also works as a professional assassin
- 1991
March Comes in Like a Lion
March Comes in Like a Lion6.71991HD
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,...
- 1984
The Crazy Family
The Crazy Family6.61984HD
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...
- 1994
Angel Dust
Angel Dust6.81994HD
A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.
- 1981
Shuffle
Shuffle7.31981HD
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...
- 2009
Instant Swamp
Instant Swamp72009HD
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...
- 2018
Punk Samurai Slash Down
Punk Samurai Slash Down5.32018HD
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...
- 1997
Labyrinth of Dreams
Labyrinth of Dreams6.91997HD
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...
- 2005
Mirrored Mind
Mirrored Mind6.42005HD
An actress suffering from an identity crisis finds herself spirited away from the bustle of Tokyo to a tropical paradise.
- 2016
Bitter Honey
Bitter Honey4.52016HD
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...
- 2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero3.82011HD
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...
- 1980
Crazy Thunder Road
Crazy Thunder Road5.51980HD
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...