Movies: Gakuryu Ishii

  • 2001
    Electric Dragon 80.000 V

    Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)

    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
  • 2023
    Almost People

    Almost People (2023)

    Almost People

    82023HD

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

    Almost People
  • 1997
    Labyrinth of Dreams

    Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)

    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 after tiring of them....

    Labyrinth of Dreams
  • 1995
    August in the Water

    August in the Water (1995)

    August in the Water

    6.91995HD

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

    August in the Water
  • 1984
    The Crazy Family

    The Crazy Family (1984)

    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 perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy. As the Ko...

    The Crazy Family
  • 1980
    Crazy Thunder Road

    Crazy Thunder Road (1980)

    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 gang feels betrayed, especially the reputedly troubled kid Jin who revolts against his former friend...

    Crazy Thunder Road
  • 2009
    Instant Swamp

    Instant Swamp (2009)

    Instant Swamp

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    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 real father who happens to be an off-beat antique shopkeeper....

    Instant Swamp
  • 1991
    March Comes in Like a Lion

    March Comes in Like a Lion (1991)

    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, she is seven and he is eight. She goes on to say that when she was seven and he was eight, she told h...

    March Comes in Like a Lion
  • 2024
    The Box Man

    The Box Man (2024)

    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 head....

    The Box Man
  • 1994
    Angel Dust

    Angel Dust (1994)

    Angel Dust

    6.81994HD

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

    Angel Dust
  • 2001
    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle (2001)

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

    6.82001HD

    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 ultimately broken by the attacks from a trio of fighters known only as the demons. Taking up his swor...

    Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
  • 2005
    Mirrored Mind

    Mirrored Mind (2005)

    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
  • 1982
    Burst City

    Burst City (1982)

    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 living....

    Burst City
  • 1993
    Tokyo Blood

    Tokyo Blood (1993)

    Tokyo Blood

    7.21993HD

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

    Tokyo Blood
  • 1978
    Panic in High School

    Panic in High School (1978)

    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 for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school studen...

    Panic in High School
  • 2018
    Punk Samurai Slash Down

    Punk Samurai Slash Down (2018)

    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 the Kurokaze Han, but they learn that Junoshin Kake lied. Junoshin Kake is given the death sentence ...

    Punk Samurai Slash Down
  • 2016
    Bitter Honey

    Bitter Honey (2016)

    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 adoring pet for an aging writer seeking greatness. Things quickly get complicated for the odd couple, howev...

    Bitter Honey
  • 2013
    Flower of Shanidar

    Flower of Shanidar (2013)

    Flower of Shanidar

    5.52013HD

    A strange phenomenon takes place. A beautiful flower blooms on a selected woman's body and that flower is called the "Shanidar". When the Shanidar is in full bloom, the flower produces a substance which is then sold at a high cost to develop new drug...

    Flower of Shanidar
  • 1978
    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata

    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata (1978)

    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata

    5.51978HD

    Known for his striking visuals and outlandish subject matter, maverick director Sogo Ishii is considered to be the master of Japanese punk cinema. In ‘Attack!’, biker gangs meet the Japanese punk scene. Continuation of the filming of "High School Pan...

    Charge! Hooligans of Hakata
  • 2003
    Dead End Run

    Dead End Run (2003)

    Dead End Run

    6.52003HD

    Three short films with the theme of death and dead ends in common....

    Dead End Run