Isao Ishii

Isao Ishii

Nacimiento : , Tokyo, Japan

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Isao Ishii (石井 勲 ; born c.1960 - Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese cinematographer. He studied and graduated from the Nihon University College of Arts in Film Department.

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Isao Ishii

Películas

Still Life of Memories
Director of Photography
Haruma is an up-and-coming photographer who is getting full exposure at a photo exhibition in a Tokyo photo gallery. Rei, a beautiful curator at the Yamanashi Prefectural Art Museum, is fascinated by the photos she sees and calls Haruma to request a photo-shoot with an intimate part of herself as the subject. The only rules to this shoot are that no questions must be asked and Rei will be given the negatives. Haruma is initially surprised but goes along with the job, however, Haruma’s pregnant girlfriend Natsumi grows frustrated over being kept in the dark about their work and jealousy develops in their relationship as passions blow up.
Love Dart
Director of Photography
Mijika encourages her girlfriend, Tomoko to lose her virginity in more ways than one. Tomoko, a germaphobic basket case, blushes, but is inspired by her new ticket-taker position at a porn film theatre. Trouble ensues when the third wheel confesses his eight-year-old love for Mijika.
A Cappella
Director of Photography
Set in the year 1969 in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Kyoko Noma is a loving female high school student who takes part in campus protests. One day, she meets university student Wataru Domoto in the tea cafe Mubansou ("A Cappella"). Kyoko falls in love with him, but they get involved in an incident that leads to a shocking ending.
XXX Kiss Kiss Kiss
Director of Photography
Five stories of romance, farewells, bitter love and stolen kisses...
Chokolietta
Director of Photography
Chiyoko’s mother died when she was young. Since that time, Chiyoko has closed her heart to others. After her pet dies, Chiyoko feels loneliness. Her mother liked the Italian movie "La Strada." Due to movie study club senior, Masamune, Chiyoko is able to watch the Italian movie "La Strada," which her mother liked. Chiyoko soon acts in a movie directed by Masamune.
The Place Where the Sun Sits
Director of Photography
Former high school classmates, now adults, hold jealous thoughts, hidden intentions and lust for revenge. Graduates from a high school have held reunions since they graduated 10 years ago. The high school itself is located 2 hours from Tokyo by train and past reunions were held by different teams for different areas. An upcoming reunion is the first time where everyone will gather again.
There's Nothing To Be Afraid Of
Director of Photography
Cinema worker Eri and her husband Fumiya have decided not to have children. They live happily together, sharing their joys and sadnesses. However, an incident begins to silently bring about change in their placid lifestyle.
1+1=11
Director of Photography
An ensemble drama in which the lives of 25 people intersect, inspired by Yamanaka Sadao's classic film {Humanity and Paper Balloons}. Various men and women, living in Japan today. Presents slices of everyday life for people in various situations, where things that are always the undergo change.
It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
Director of Photography
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
Love and Treachery
Director of Photography
Kyosuke, an editor at a publishing company, keeps his concerns about his stagnant relationship with his wife hidden. As he struggles with his feelings, he meets Reika, the lover of an talented up-and-coming novelist, and becomes obsessed with her.
Sweet Little Lies
Director of Photography
A husband and wife, who have not had sex in three years, both fall into extra-marital affairs.
Ten Nights of Dreams
Director of Photography
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to film with great visual and psychological panache. Representing the combined efforts of eleven directors, this outstanding anthology delves into the surreal subconscious with ten madly imaginative, reality-subverting visions that range from wonderfully wacky to nightmarishly unsettling.
Have a Nice Day
Director of Photography
Compilation film featuring short works from directors Hitoshi Yasaki ("Short Cakes"), Yuki Tanada (scriptwriter "Sakuran," "Tsuki to Cherry"), Hiroyuki Nakano ("Stereo Future," "Samurai Fiction"), Masahiko Nagasawa ("Yoru no Picnic"), Masaya Kakehi ("Bijokan), and more for a total of 18 shorts. This time around the theme is "24 hours," where filming for each work must have been completed in 24 hours in order to appear in this film.
Strawberry Shortcakes
Director of Photography
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
Tokyo Zombie
Director of Photography
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
World's End / Girl Friend
Director of Photography
Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
Women in the Mirror
Assistant Camera
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
The Mars Canon
Director of Photography
A look at the problems two couples, Kohei and Kinuko, and Manabe and Hijiri, have in their relationships, and the solutions they try to devise as a way out.
0cm⁴
Director of Photography
Maeda decides to have an operation to cure his color-blindness, but he becomes afraid that after the operation, his world is not going to be the same.
Shooting Star
Director of Photography
Kikujiro schemes to steal Shooting Star, a renowned race horse, and enter him into top prize horse race, but things don't go to plan.
Sunday Drive
Director of Photography
A pair of friendly coworkers at a rental video store accidentally become murderers. Borrowing a station wagon, they flee with no particular destination in mind.
An Obsession
Director of Photography
Police detective Sosuke is shot down while chasing down a suspect. While he is unconscious, his gun is stolen. He recovers, but loses his wife and resigns from the police force. All of a sudden, his lost gun used in a series of crimes.
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 2
Director of Photography
Watashitachi ga suki datta koto
Director of Photography
Two Punks
Director of Photography
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and straight society. Neither wants to be a Yakuza, but normal life presents problems.
Ignatius
Director of Photography
Super Scandal
Director of Photography
Maborosi
Assistant Camera
La soledad, el amor y la muerte se reflejan en esta historia de dos jóvenes que, después de casarse, él muere arrollado por un tren. (FILMAFFINITY)
August in the Water
First Assistant Camera
A teenage girl gains supernatural power after an accident and comes to understand her place in the universe.
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Cinematography
Tokarev
Director of Photography
A school bus driver's life is irrevocably altered when his young son is kidnapped and murdered.
March Comes in Like a Lion
Lighting Coordinator
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 her brother that she would marry him.
March Comes in Like a Lion
Director of Photography
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 her brother that she would marry him.
Water Crown
Director of Photography
A seemingly ordinary preparatory school student Kishida who seemed to have raped her with a girl who seems to be prostituting while seemingly sending an ordinary high school girl high life is tied up with some kind of strange relationship.
SEARCH
Director of Photography
A man who has lost his memory returns to his hometown and encounter several people from his past and present.
Kazetachi no gogo
Director of Photography
La compañera de trabajo de Natsuko, Etsuko, le pregunta qué siente por los hombres. "No para mí", dice ella, "no me degradaré". Basado en una historia real de un periódico, Afternoon Breezes presenta el lesbianismo reprimido de Natsuko como un enamoramiento que se convierte en una obsesión con su compañera de cuarto Mitsu.
SEARCH
Director of Photography