Akio Jissoji
出生 : 1937-03-29, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
死亡 : 2006-11-29
略歴
Akio Jissoji was a Japanese television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series Ultraman and Ultra Seven, as well as for his auteur erotic ATG-produced Buddhist trilogy Mujō (無常), Mandala (曼陀羅), and Uta (哥). He was also known for his film adaptations of Japanese horror author Rampo Edogawa. Jissoji possessed a very distinctive visual style that was notable even in Japanese cinema which is known internationally for its visual style. Every project he directed, from children's action shows to the most disturbing adult films had an uncompromising approach to cinematic story telling. His episodes of the Ultraman TV shows are unique and quite unusual for children's television. His career is also unusual in that he went back and forth from children's television to film projects that were sexually provocative in some way or another. It is perhaps this aspect of his work that has prevented wider distribution of his films. Sadomasochistic and non-consensual sexual practices are featured in many of his film works with women receiving the brunt of the abuse. Another recurring theme was to pull the camera back and reveal the set his actors were working on.
Director
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.
Executive Producer
1920年（大正9年）の東京で、不可思議な美女連続殺人事件が次々と発生していた。諜報機関からこれらの捜査の密命を受けた陸軍大尉・本郷義昭（山中峯太郎の軍事冒険小説の主人公）は、友人の平井太郎（のちに小説家・江戸川乱歩として有名になる）とともに浅草のダンテ劇場を調査中、ザビーネという日独ハーフの美女と出会う。
Director
1920年（大正9年）の東京で、不可思議な美女連続殺人事件が次々と発生していた。諜報機関からこれらの捜査の密命を受けた陸軍大尉・本郷義昭（山中峯太郎の軍事冒険小説の主人公）は、友人の平井太郎（のちに小説家・江戸川乱歩として有名になる）とともに浅草のダンテ劇場を調査中、ザビーネという日独ハーフの美女と出会う。
Director
A man awaits the reincarnation of his dead wife
Supervising Producer
A spot-on, hilarious spoof of 1970s Japanese TV cop shows, THE RUG COP follows chrome-domed officer Genda as he transfers to a new precinct just as a group of radical terrorists hijack a shipment of uranium and deliver a ransom demand of five billion yen. Genda and his crack team of detectives must solve the case using their peculiar abilities: champion eater Detective Fatty, abnormally endowed Detective Big Dick, speedy weightlifter Detective Shorty, and ladies man Mr. Handsome. But most dangerous of all is the Rug Cop, whose projectile toupee proves lethal to wrongdoers! Kawasaki s unique comic genius and his love of vintage cop shows combine to produce a silly masterpiece that will have viewers truly believing in Rug Power!
Self
Making of documentary for 'Rampo Noir'
Director
1952（昭和27）年、夏の東京。小説家の関口はちまたで広まる、産婦人科の大病院である久遠寺医院の娘・梗子が、妊娠20カ月目を迎えたのに一向に出産する気配がなく、しかも彼女の夫は1年半前に医院の密室から忽然と消え、以来、行方不明となっているという不思議な噂を耳にする。雑誌の依頼で事件を取材することになった関口は、古本屋の店主にして神社の神主でもある、博覧強記の友人・京極堂に相談を持ちかける。
Director
In the 21st century, multiple mysterious phenomenon began to occur as monsters who were initially thought to be a part of mythology had come to life. These phenomenons had also resulted from human activities that disrupted the nature of the ecosystem. Ultraman Max is the titular giant of his series. Originally a civilization observer sent from Nebula M78, the sacrifice of Kaito Touma changed his mind into bonding with with the youth and actively defending Earth from monsters and alien attacks.
Arthouse Ultraman is a movie with four episodes edited together, theatrically released at Fantasia Festival 2006.
Director
荒野を歩き続けていた男の意識が、やがて錯乱の淵へ堕ちていく悪夢譚、「火星の運河」。殺人事件の現場に残された和鏡の謎を追う、美青年・透と明智小五郎の物語「鏡地獄」。廃墟でひっそりと暮らす、胴体だけの夫とその妻の奇行を、一人の男が屋根裏から監視し記録する「芋虫」。恋焦がれる女優を殺害した運転手の、異常な執着を描く「蟲」。4つの物語は、やがてひとつの大きな流れへと向かっていく。
Title Designer
A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.
Director
昭和二年、古本屋の女将が殺されるという事件が起きた。第一発見者が逮捕されるが、やがて他の者にも嫌疑がかかる。『屋根裏の散歩者』に続いて実相寺昭雄が監督した、明智小五郎を探偵役とする佳品。原作は江戸川乱歩の2つの短編「D坂の殺人事件」と「心理試験」。物語は真田広之演ずる贋作師・蕗屋が依頼された春画の製作を中心に、妖しくもつれた人間関係を官能的に描いていく。
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Writer
Exploitation diva Kei Mizutani movie stars within this omnibus flick featuring three reports of madness and sensuality. The first part, entitled "Two Women known as Mariko," paints an image of a younger comely lass named Mariko, whom, because of to a strange series of occasions during her youth, finds by herself the slave of another girl coincidentally also named Mariko. Into the 2nd yarn, five ladies endeavor to a remote cottage. Yet maybe not very long after, the quintet occur upon a corpse. Plus in the final portion, entitled "The guy within the Pillory," a young dancer looks for the dastardly villain that drove her sister to suicide
Director
In 1923, in a cheap Tokyo rooming house, a languid young man named Goda was feeling bored with his life. One day while playing dress up with a woman’s wig and lipstick, he accidentally loosens a ceiling board in his closet. Climbing up, he discovers a dimly lit passageway under the roof leading to the resident’s other rooms. Soon he is scampering about like a ninja, making knotholes and moving ceiling boards for a better view. What he sees are the intimate acts - sadistic, criminal or vaguely mad - that reveal infinitely more about his fellow roomers than the various fronts they present to the world.
Screenplay
A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss.
Editor
A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss.
Director
A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss.
Production Supervisor
Production Supervisor
Screenplay
Director
Director
A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.
Writer
A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura (Keiko Kaga), a dental hygienist. However, the statements of the victim Yumiko and the suspect Saburo Kubo were completely incompatible. Adachi, a national lawyer who took on the defense of the suspect, will begin a personal investigation of Yumiko to find out the truth of the case.
Director
A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura (Keiko Kaga), a dental hygienist. However, the statements of the victim Yumiko and the suspect Saburo Kubo were completely incompatible. Adachi, a national lawyer who took on the defense of the suspect, will begin a personal investigation of Yumiko to find out the truth of the case.
Screenplay
A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients. She's dedicated to the misery - even finding comfort in it - stumbling through life like a zombie.
Director
A young widow becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She's a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected to every cruel whim concocted by her clients. She's dedicated to the misery - even finding comfort in it - stumbling through life like a zombie.
Story
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Script Supervisor
A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.
Director
A decadent count in 1920′s Japan becomes obsessed with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade. He creates a theatre to show plays adapted from the notorious writer’s novels and recruits thieves, prostitutes and low lives to act out his fantasies on stage for the delectation of his rich, jaded friends. In search of new sensations the nobleman orders one of the actors, on pain of death, to make love to the nobleman’s wife while he watches. Unfortunately, this incursion of real life into his fantasy world will have dire consequences for the count and his divinely decadent coterie.
Producer
明治４５年。実業家の渋沢栄一は、東京の町を軍事面からだけではなく霊的にも守護する“東京改造計画”を始める。しかし、東京の壊滅をたくらむ謎の男・加藤保憲は平将門の霊を呼び覚まそうとする。大正１２年、加藤は関東大震災を起こすが、文豪の幸田露伴らの努力によって東京壊滅に失敗する。東京は渋沢らの手によって急速に復興するが昭和２年、加藤が再び東京に現われる。しかしそれを妨害しようとする面々が現われる。
Director
明治４５年。実業家の渋沢栄一は、東京の町を軍事面からだけではなく霊的にも守護する“東京改造計画”を始める。しかし、東京の壊滅をたくらむ謎の男・加藤保憲は平将門の霊を呼び覚まそうとする。大正１２年、加藤は関東大震災を起こすが、文豪の幸田露伴らの努力によって東京壊滅に失敗する。東京は渋沢らの手によって急速に復興するが昭和２年、加藤が再び東京に現われる。しかしそれを妨害しようとする面々が現われる。
Director
Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.
Director
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
Director
Original Story
1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
Director
「実相寺昭雄監督作品ウルトラマン」は、1979年に実相寺昭雄が監督した日本の特撮怪獣映画である。実相寺監督が制作した初代ウルトラマンのテレビシリーズのシーンを集めた総集編である。
Director
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
Director
Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realising that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.
Director
丹波篠山の旧家の三男の淳は、家を守ることを母に言いきかせられ、忠実に働きつづけていた。実の母がお手伝いとも知らず。一方、財産の山林を手放し、自分たちの代で終わりにしようとするのが、長男・康と次男・徹。長男夫婦は、康の淡白さに妻・夏子は不満が募り、ある時、住み込みの書生とお手伝いとの情愛を目撃し、淳を誘惑していく…。
Director
農業とエロチシズムを二本の柱として、単純再生産を基本としたユートピア集団の実現を計る人物と、偶然そこにまぎれ込んだ新左翼系の男女学生四人が中心となり、恋人交換、暴行、サディズムなど、さまざまな型の性を描きながら、よりよく、われわれが抱いている日本そのものへのアプローチを試みた作品。脚本、監督は「無常」でコンビを組んだ石堂淑朗と実相寺昭雄。撮影も同作の稲垣涌三がそれぞれ担当。なお、イナガキ・スコープというワイド版が一部使用されている。
Director
日野家の長男、正夫は親の希望に反して仏像に取り憑かれている毎日を送っていた。ある日、家族の留守中に美しい姉の百合と肉体関係を持ち、百合は妊娠した。正夫は姉を書生の岩下と結婚させ、自らは京都の仏師に弟子入りするのだったが…。
Director
Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.
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The recorded stage debut of the original Ultraman.
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Akio Jissoji's documentary on the production of Ultra Q. Interview with series creator Eiji Tsuburaya.
