is a
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
from
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
. He has often collaborated with
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter first known for his soft-core pornographic '' pink films'' of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the . In recent years, he h ...
.
Career
Izuchi began making films while a student at
Hosei University
is a private university based in Tokyo, Japan.
The university originated in a school of law, Tōkyō Hōgakusha (, i.e. Tokyo association of law), established in 1880, and the following year renamed Tōkyō Hōgakkō (, i.e. Tokyo school of law ...
, winning an award at the Tokyo Student Film Festival.
He began writing screenplays for
pink film
in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content. This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. The Western equiv ...
s while starting his own independent production company, Spiritual Movies.
His
8mm directorial film ''Jesus in Nirvana'' was released commercially in theaters.
His films have been introduced at
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...
's Nippon Connection film festival.
His works
As director
*''Jesus in Nirvana'' (''Hyakunen no zesshō''), 1998
*''Mole’s Festival'' (''Mogura no matsuri''), 2010
*''Muddy Planet'' (''Doro no wakusei''), 2010
As screenwriter
*''
Moon Child
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See also
*
Haruhiko Arai
is a Japanese screenwriter. He is also a publisher and an editor of the ''Eiga Geijutsu'' magazine and a professor of the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.
Career
Arai won the Mainichi Film Award for best screenplay for the film ''W's Traged ...
*
Kojin Karatani
is a Japanese philosopher and literary critic.
Biography
Karatani entered the University of Tokyo in 1960, where he joined the radical Marxist Communist League, better known as "The Bund," and participated in the massive 1960 Anpo protests aga ...
- who appears in a
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
'Left Alone' directed by Izuchi
[ trailer of the film in YouTube]
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References
External links
*
Izuchi Kishu
His profile in International Film Festival Rotterdam's webpage
Japanese screenwriters
Japanese film directors
Living people
1968 births
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