was a Japanese

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and

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artist. He directed several ''

pinku eiga 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 ...

'' erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 crime thriller ''

Gonin ''Gonin'' ( ja, ゴニン (５人) or, in some English-language editions, ''The Five'') is a 1995 crime film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Takeshi Kitano, Kōichi Satō and Masahiro Motoki. This was the first film Kitano starred in ...

'' starring

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television presenter, actor, filmmaker, and author. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host. With th ...

Filmography

Director

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

'' Angel Guts: Red Vertigo'' a.k.a. ''Tenshi no harawata: Akai memai'' :

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

'' Gekka no ran'' :

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

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'' a.k.a. ''Shinde mo ii'' : 1993 ''

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'' a.k.a. ''Nudo no yoru'' :

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

'' Angel Guts 6'' a.k.a. ''Tenshi no harawata: Akai senkō'' :

''Alone in the Night'' a.k.a. ''Yoru ga mata kuru'' :

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

'' a.k.a. ''Five'' :

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

'' Gonin 2'' a.k.a. ''Five Women'' :

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

''The Black Angel'' a.k.a. '' Kuro no tenshi Vol. 1'' : 1999 '' Black Angel Vol. 2'' a.k.a. '' Kuro no tenshi Vol. 2'' :

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

Freeze Me , or ''Freezer'', is a 2000 Japanese rape and revenge thriller film by director Takashi Ishii. This film stars Harumi Inoue as Chihiro, a rape victim who tries to live a normal life, only to be visited several years later by her three rapists in ...

'' a.k.a. ''Freezer'' : 2004 '' Flower and Snake'' a.k.a. ''Hana to hebi'' :

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

'' Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko'' : 2007 ''Hito ga Hito o Ai suru koto no dōshiyō mo nasa'' :

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

'' A Night in Nude -Salvation-''　aka　''Nudo no yoru Ai ha oshiminaku ubau'' :

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend is a 2013 Japanese erotic romance film directed by Takashi Ishii and starring Tasuku Emoto, Kokone Sasaki and Naoto Takenaka. Plot The Movie starts off with an introverted office boy named Kentaro, who becomes the scapegoat to the company's h ...

'' a.k.a. ''Figyua na anata'' :

''Sweet Whip'' a.k.a. '' Amai Muchi'' :

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

Gonin Saga is a 2015 Japanese drama film directed by Takashi Ishii. It is a sequel to ''Gonin'' and stars Masahiro Higashide and Masanobu Andō. Cast *Masahiro Higashide as Hayato Hisamatsu *Kenta Kiritani as Daisuke Ogoshi *Anna Tsuchiya as Asami Kikuc ...

Manga works

:1975 ''Inka Jigoku'' :1977 ''Nami'' :1978 ''Tenshi no Harawata'' :1978 ''Akai Kyôshitsu'' :1979 ''Yokosuka Rock'' :1980 ''Illumination'' :1981 ''Python 357'' :1981 ''Onna no Machi'' :1982 ''Kuro no Tenshi'' :1982 ''Shôjo Nami'' :1984 ''Zôge no Akuma'' :1985 ''Ishii Takashi Jisen Gekigashuu'' :1987 ''Ai no Yukue'' :1987 ''Last Waltz'' :1987 ''Yoru ni Hôho Yose'' :1988 ''Akai Memai'' :1989 ''Ame Monogatari'' :1989 ''Tsuki Monogatari'' :1990 ''Maraque'' :1990 ''Akai Tôriame'' :1990 ''Akai Yoru'' :1991 ''Amai Yoru'' :1991 ''Yoru o Furuete'' :1993 ''Nami Returns'' :1998 ''Manjushaka'' :2000 ''Cantarella no Hako'' :2001 ''Nami in Blue''

References

External links

* * 1946 births 2022 deaths Japanese film directors Pink film directors People from Sendai Gekiga creators Manga artists {{Japan-film-bio-stub