Sōgo Ishii (石井聰互 Ishii Sōgo?) (born 1957) is a film director from Japan known for his striking visuals and sometimes outlandish subject matter. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.
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Early life
Ishii was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and attended the Nihon University College of Art. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyūshū Island. Nihon University ( 日本[[wikt 大学|大学]] Nihon Daigaku abbreviated as 日大 Nichidai is the largest University in Japan. There, with the aid of friends, he directed an 8 mm short named Panic High School (高校大パニック) (also known as The Solitude Of One Man Divided By 88,000 and Charge! Hooligans of Hakata). 8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight Millimeters wide The film, about a student rebellion when a school's administration refuses to acknowledge complicity for a student's suicide, garnered him attention outside of school and was released theatrically.
Punk films
For his graduation project, he filmed Crazy Thunder Road (狂い咲きサンダーロード) (1980), again directed with friends of his who were in biker gangs. This film was a fusion of Mad Max and the Japanese Bōsōzoku aesthetic, and enthralled film studio Toho such that they struck 35 mm prints of the 16 mm film and released it theatrically. Mad Max is a 1979 Australian apocalyptic action thriller Film directed by George Miller and written is a Japanese Subculture associated with Motorcycle clubs and gangs. is a large Japanese Independent film Studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group 35 mm film is the basic Film gauge most commonly used for both still Photography and Motion pictures, and remains relatively unchanged since its It was widely considered controversial, and the Japanese film board Eirin condemned it for presenting violence sympathetically. is the abbreviated name for, Japan 's movie regulator Eirin was established on the model of the American Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America 's Production
In 1982, he directed Burst City (爆裂都市), a stylish 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. is a Japanese Science fiction Punk rock musical / Action film. Action movies are a Film genre where action sequences such as fights, Shootouts Stunts Car chases or explosions either take precedence A mutant is an individual organism or new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of Mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA MotorCycle is the title of a 1993 album by Rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records. This article is a subarticle of Nuclear power. A nuclear reactor is a device in which Nuclear chain reactions are initiated controlled The film starred members of Japanese punk bands The Roosters, The Rockers, The Stalin and Inu, among others. This article is about the Japanese rock band the Roosters for other bands of the same name see The Roosters (disambiguation The Roosters (ザ・ルースターズ The Stalin was an influential Japanese Punk rock band formed in 1980 by Michiro Endo He became a favorite among rebel and punk cineastes in Japan, who previously had no cinematic visionaries of their own. The punk subculture is based around Punk rock. It emerged from the larger Rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United
In 1984, Ishii directed his most widely-acclaimed movie to that point, The Crazy Family (逆噴射家族), the title of which literally translates to The Back-Firing Family (or more crudely, "the fucked-up family"). Fuck is an English Word that as a Verb, means "to have Sexual intercourse " A savage satire of Japanese family life, it depicted an average household (mother, father, son, daughter, and later grandfather) moving into a new Tokyo home, only to have their perfect life collapse due to pressures from within and without. Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although in practice it is also found in the graphic and Performing arts In satire human officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. The daughter obsesses over her singing career; the nominally-demure wife does table-dances for the guests; the son stabs himself to stay awake during his exam-cram sessions; the father digs a giant hole in the living room floor, finds termites, buys ant poison and tries to kill everyone en masse. The film garnered the Grand Prix at the Saruso Film Festival.
Second period
For the next ten years Ishii made few films, other than various shorts and the Einstuerzende Neubauten concert film Halber Mensch. Einstürzende Neubauten (ˈaɪnˌʃtʏɐʦəndə ˈnɔʏˌbaʊtən is an Avant-garde music band originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980 " Halber Mensch " (aka "1/2 Mensch" is a 1986 film by Sogo Ishii with Einstürzende Neubauten. In 1994 he returned with his first feature-length film in ten years, Angel Dust (エンジェルダスト), about a female psychological profiler trying to find a serial killer who murders a young woman every Monday at six P. Offender profiling is a behavioral and investigative tool that helps investigators to profile unknown criminal subjects or offenders A serial killer is a person who Murders usually three or more people with a "cooling off" period between each murder and whose motivation for killing is largely based M. on the Yamanote commuter line. The of East Japan Railway Company (JR East is one of Tokyo 's busiest and most important Commuter rail lines
In 1995 Ishii made August in the Water (水の中の八月), which dealt with a teenage girl gaining supernatural powers after a mishap and using same to better understand her purpose in life. The term supernatural or supranatural ( Latin: super, supra "above" + natura "nature" pertains to entities events In a similarly mystical vein was 1997's Labyrinth of Dreams (夢の銀河), wherein a bus conductor discovers that her driver may in fact be a serial murderer. Mysticism (from the Greek grc μυστικός mystikos, an initiate of a Mystery religion) is the pursuit of communion with identity
Recent films
In 2000 Ishii made Gojoe (五条霊戦記), a samurai epic that combined both his original hyperkinetic filmmaking approach (violence, wild editing and camera movements) with his newer, more stately concerns (man's place in the universe). is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial Japan. The Epic is a genre of film which places emphasis on human drama on a grand scale A spectularly-photographed, revisionist retelling of the legends of Saito Musashibo Benkei and Yoshitsune, it recast the two as mortal enemies destined to clash on the bridge named Gojoe. For the denial and distortion of well-established historical facts see Historical revisionism (negationism. popularly called Benkei, was a Sohei (warrior monk who served Minamoto no Yoshitsune. The swordplay, choreographed by a member of the Chinese opera, brought to mind ballet fused with conventional chanbara fighting styles. While earlier Samurai period pieces were more dramatic rather than action-based samurai movies post World War II have become more action-based with darker Opinions over the film were divided in Japan: some lambasted it for being a trashing of conventional myth, while others praised it for being an imaginative re-envisioning and retelling of a well-worn story.
Ishii also directed Electric Dragon 80.000 V in the same year. Electric Dragon 80000 V is a 2001 Japanese film written and directed by Sogo Ishii. This was definitely a throwback to his more original filmmaking style -- a low-budget, black-and-white 50 minute short about two superheroes, "Dragon Eye Morrison" and "Electric Buddha", who clash in nighttime Tokyo. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do Interestingly, the film starred two actors that also appeared in Gojoe, Tadanobu Asano and Masatoshi Nagase. Tadanobu Asano (浅野忠信 Asano Tadanobu) born Tadanobu Sato (佐藤 忠信 Satō Tadanobu, born November 27, 1973, in Yokohama Masatoshi Nagase (永瀬 正敏 Nagase Masatoshi) (b July 15, 1966 in Miyazaki, Japan) is a Japanese Actor.
In 2003 Ishii released Dead End Run, a collection of three short films each revolving around the concept of reaching a "dead end. Dead End Run is a 2003 Film directed by Japanese Cult film director Sogo Ishii, notable for Ishii's trademark flashy " Asano Tadanobu and Nagase Masatoshi again starred.
Filmography
Director
- 1978 Totsugeki! Hakata Gurentai aka Charge! Hooligans of Hakata
- 1978 Hachijyu-Hachi-Man Bun no Ichi no Kodoku aka Solitude of One Divided by 880,000
- 1978 Koko dai panikku aka Panic in High School
- 1980 Kuruizaki sanda rodo aka Crazy Thunder Road
- 1981 Shuffle
- 1982 Bakuretsu toshi aka Burst City
- 1983 Ajia no gyakushu aka Asia Strikes Back
- 1984 Gyakufunsha kazoku aka The Crazy Family
- 1986 1/2 Mensch aka 1/2 Man
- 1989 Shiatsu Oja aka The Master of Shiatsu
- 1989 Private 8mm Film Live Diary 81-86
- 1994 Angel Dust
- 1995 Mizu no naka no hachigatsu aka August in the Water
- 1997 Yume no ginga aka Labyrinth of Dreams
- 2000 Gojo reisenki: Gojoe
- 2001 Electric Dragon 80.000 V
- 2003 Dead End Run
- 2004 Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2004
External links
- (English) Sogo Ishii at the Internet Movie Database
- 石井聰亙 (Sogo Ishii) (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
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