Gakuryu Ishii

WriterActorDirectorProducerEditor Jan 15 (age 69) Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan 1976–2024 (48 year career)

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Biography

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 known for his stylistic punk films, which helped spark the cyberpunk movement in Japan. A number of contemporary filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino, have cited Ishii's films as an influence.

Known For

Film

Electric Dragon 80000V

Director

Film

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Director

Film

August in the Water

Director

Film

Angel Dust

Director

Film

The Crazy Family

Director

Film

Labyrinth of Dreams

Director

Film

Burst City

Director

Film

Mirrored Mind

Director

Filmography

Acting (9)

Movies (9)

Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle

2023

The Punk Spirit of '82: Sogo Ishii on Burst City

2020

Japanscope, panorama de la nouvelle Nouvelle Vague

2015

Instant Swamp

2009

as Shop Costumer / Nail Buyer

6.8

Humoresque

2006

What's a Director?

2006

March Comes In Like a Lion

1991

as Ramen Deliveryman

6.4

Never Mind a Little Rain

1984

as Himself

MOMENT

1981

10.0

Crew (67)

Movies (65)

The Box Man

2024

Writer

7.0

Self-Revolutionary Cinematic Struggle

2023

Writer

Almost People

Director

Future Imaginations

Producer

Punk Samurai Slash Down

Director

Bitter Honey

Director

Bitter Honey

Editor

That's It

Director

Flower of Shanidar

Director

Flower of Shanidar

Editor

Flower of Shanidar

Screenplay

Isn't Anyone Alive?

Director

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

2011

Director

3.8

Your Order! The History of the Stalin

2006

Director

A Day of the GOD Island

Director

Mirrored Mind

Director

Mirrored Mind

Director of Photography

Mirrored Mind

Producer

Mirrored Mind

Writer

Jeonju Digital Project 2004

2004

Director

3.0

Jeonju Digital Project 2004

2004

Director of Photography

3.0

Jeonju Digital Project 2004

Writer

Dead End Run

Director

Skirt

Director

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

2001

Director

6.8

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

2001

Screenplay

6.8

Electric Dragon 80000V

2001

Director

6.9

Electric Dragon 80000V

Writer

Labyrinth of Dreams

Director

Labyrinth of Dreams

Writer

Lonely Planet

Executive Producer

August in the Water

Director

August in the Water

Writer

Angel Dust

Director

Angel Dust

Editor

Angel Dust

Writer

Korosiya Ami

General Manager

Kitakoto no aru hajimete no michi

1993

General Manager

Wild Side

1993

General Manager

Tokyo Blood

Director

Tokyo Blood

Screenplay

Private 8mm Film Live Diary 81-86

1989

Director

The Master of Shiatsu

Director

1/2 Man

Director

1/2 Man

Screenplay

The Crazy Family

Director

The Crazy Family

Screenplay

Asia Strikes Back

Director

Burst City

Director

Burst City

Editor

Burst City

Music Director

Burst City

Screenplay

Norikoto-Toriaezu no Taiwa No. 1

1982

Director

Shuffle

Director

Shuffle

Screenplay

Crazy Thunder Road

Director

Crazy Thunder Road

Screenplay

Tokyo Cabbageman K

Director of Photography

7.0

Rusty Empty Can

1979

Director of Photography

6.0

Kami no ochite kita hi

1979

Action Director

Run

1979

Director

Panic in High School

1978

Director

6.7

Charge! Hooligans of Hakata

1978

Director

5.5

Solitude of One Divided by 880,000

Director

Panic High School

Writer

Television (2)

Neo Ultra Q

2013

Director

9.2

The Private Detective Mike

2002

Director

8.4