Shozin Fukui
Birth : , Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
History
Shozin Fukui is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has produced two experimental shorts (Gerorisuto, and Caterpillar) and two full-length films (964 Pinocchio, and Rubber's Lover). These four movies were widely available, having been issued on DVD by Unearthed Films. However, these releases have since gone out of print. He has released four more films since then. These are almost completely unknown outside Japan.
Director
In 2010, the virus S-94 wiped out almost all of humanity. Only two women survive the pandemic and now lives isolated together. One of them desperately want to survive while the other is suicidal. The balance they have managed to maintain destroyed when a third survivor appears (whose existence they discovered through a radio broadcast) and will soon begin fighting over him, despite an otherwise hopeless future.
Writer
Strange and violent things start to happen when a reclusive woman is held captive in her own home.
Director
Strange and violent things start to happen when a reclusive woman is held captive in her own home.
Editor
Director's Cut / alternate version of the horror movie "Onne".
Screenplay
Director's Cut / alternate version of the horror movie "Onne".
Director
Director's Cut / alternate version of the horror movie "Onne".
Screenplay
A recluse meets another recluse online when he's victim to a gas attack.
Director
A recluse meets another recluse online when he's victim to a gas attack.
Writer
A trio of journalists receive a mysterious DVD from an unknown source. The young woman journalist decides to watch the DVD and disappears. Her two friends begin an investigation into her disappearance that turns up a video she shot while watching the DVD they received in the mail. Upon viewing it appears she was not alone in her apartment. Who is the mystery woman seen only in a reflection and what caused the young lady to commit suicide?
Director
A trio of journalists receive a mysterious DVD from an unknown source. The young woman journalist decides to watch the DVD and disappears. Her two friends begin an investigation into her disappearance that turns up a video she shot while watching the DVD they received in the mail. Upon viewing it appears she was not alone in her apartment. Who is the mystery woman seen only in a reflection and what caused the young lady to commit suicide?
Director
Pop art documentary faeturing 'Koe-chan'. She is an idol shop clerk of the large manga shop 'Mandarake', popular for her 'costume-play'.
Writer
A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded with DDD with extremely intense sound. Though the experiments are successful in unleashing psychic powers in the test subjects, the results are usually fatal. As a result, the corporation attempts to shut down the experiments against the wishes of Motomiya and Hitotsubashi who are in charge of the research. In a desperate attempt to salvage their work, the two researchers take over the lab and hold an innocent secretary hostage while they transform their fellow researcher into an ether addict and use him as the final human guinea pig for their experiments. The result has to be seen to be believed as his psychic powers are unleashed in a wave of ferocity that will leave you breathless.
Director
A powerful and secretive corporation is conducting underground psychic experiments utilizing Digital Direct Drive, otherwise known as DDD. While under the influence of the drug ether, the human subjects are outfitted in rubber suits and bombarded with DDD with extremely intense sound. Though the experiments are successful in unleashing psychic powers in the test subjects, the results are usually fatal. As a result, the corporation attempts to shut down the experiments against the wishes of Motomiya and Hitotsubashi who are in charge of the research. In a desperate attempt to salvage their work, the two researchers take over the lab and hold an innocent secretary hostage while they transform their fellow researcher into an ether addict and use him as the final human guinea pig for their experiments. The result has to be seen to be believed as his psychic powers are unleashed in a wave of ferocity that will leave you breathless.
Story
Abandoned by his owners for failure to maintain an erection, mindless sex slave Pinocchio 964 is left to wander the streets of Tokyo. Together with the homeless Himiko, he seeks refuge from his corporate masters in the alleys and sewers of the sprawling metropolis. But as Pinocchio and Himiko inch closer to reclaiming the selves they never knew, sinister revelations about their origins come to light.
Editor
Abandoned by his owners for failure to maintain an erection, mindless sex slave Pinocchio 964 is left to wander the streets of Tokyo. Together with the homeless Himiko, he seeks refuge from his corporate masters in the alleys and sewers of the sprawling metropolis. But as Pinocchio and Himiko inch closer to reclaiming the selves they never knew, sinister revelations about their origins come to light.
Writer
Abandoned by his owners for failure to maintain an erection, mindless sex slave Pinocchio 964 is left to wander the streets of Tokyo. Together with the homeless Himiko, he seeks refuge from his corporate masters in the alleys and sewers of the sprawling metropolis. But as Pinocchio and Himiko inch closer to reclaiming the selves they never knew, sinister revelations about their origins come to light.
Director
Abandoned by his owners for failure to maintain an erection, mindless sex slave Pinocchio 964 is left to wander the streets of Tokyo. Together with the homeless Himiko, he seeks refuge from his corporate masters in the alleys and sewers of the sprawling metropolis. But as Pinocchio and Himiko inch closer to reclaiming the selves they never knew, sinister revelations about their origins come to light.
Assistant Director
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Production Design
A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.
Editor
A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.
Director of Photography
A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.
Director
A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.
Editor
A short experimental film by Japanese underground filmmaker Shozin Fukui. The film follows a young woman on the Tokyo subway, who may be possessed.
Cinematography
A short experimental film by Japanese underground filmmaker Shozin Fukui. The film follows a young woman on the Tokyo subway, who may be possessed.
Producer
A group of punks steal weapons from a military base.
Writer
A group of punks steal weapons from a military base.
Editor
A group of punks steal weapons from a military base.
Director
A group of punks steal weapons from a military base.
Director
A short experimental film by Japanese underground filmmaker Shozin Fukui. The film follows a young woman on the Tokyo subway, who may be possessed.
Director
Early 8mm short film.
Director
A man randomly stabs a stranger.
