Akio Jissoji

Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File

Modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen / Operation Mystery tv show. A special unit called SRI (Science Research Institute) is investigating mysterious cases.

Release Date:2007-04-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Ten Nights of Dreams

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.

Release Date:2007-01-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:14

Die Silbermaske

Sabine is able to transform into a silver superhero through the power of the Ring of Nibelungen. She travels to Japan where she searches for her father and battles the forces of Dr. Caligari.

Release Date:2006-12-23

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:1

The Rug Cop

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!

Release Date:2006-07-11

Department:Production

Job:Supervising Producer

Vote Count:5

Cross the Lens

Making of documentary for 'Rampo Noir'

Release Date:2006-07-01

Character:Self

Summer of Ubume

Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a detective with the unusual ability to see people's memories. They are hired by the impossibly pregnant woman's sister to find the woman's missing husband and lay this whole matter to rest. In the end, they need the help of Kyogokudo to exorcise the family curse.

Release Date:2005-07-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Arthouse Ultraman

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.

Release Date:2005-07-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Ultraman Max

Ultraman Max was an Ultraman TV series which started airing on 7 July 2005, and produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd.. The show tried to return to the true formula of new monsters every week and being a fast paced show like previous series with the exception of Ultraman Nexus. The show is full of homages to past series by having three of the original cast members from the first Ultraman series being featured in an episode, updated versions of classic monsters like Red King, Eleking and Pigmon among others. One unusual episode revolves around the filming of the 1964 program Ultra Q which was the predecessor to the first Ultraman show in 1966. Two actors from that show appear as themselves.

Release Date:2005-07-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:8

Rampo Noir

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

Release Date:2005-05-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:26

Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy

Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy is a 2004 production, and the 19th installment in the Ultra Series that was broadcast in Japan in 2004. It is a sequel to Ultra Q, the first of the Ultra Series. It retains the same swirling effect for the titlecard, but with the words "Dark Fantasy" added underneath, the title also remains black and white.

Release Date:2004-04-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

Zombie Snake

A family are haunted by a Hebi Onna, a fabled demonic undead Snake Woman.

Release Date:2000-07-14

Department:Art

Job:Title Designer

Murder on D Street

Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.

Release Date:1998-05-16

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 1

Release Date:1997-12-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 3

Release Date:1997-12-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 2

Release Date:1997-12-19

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Ultraman Dyna

As humanity begins migrating beyond Earth, a new Ultraman named Dyna arrives and bonds with defense organization GUTS' newest recruit, Shin Asuka, to protect a colony on Mars.

Release Date:1997-09-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

Ultraman Tiga

A high-tech squadron protects Earth from evil monsters and aliens with the help of a giant super-being named Ultraman Tiga.

Release Date:1996-09-07

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:105

Tokyo Decameron

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

Release Date:1996-07-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

A Watcher in the Attic

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.

Release Date:1994-03-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Dialogue

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.

Release Date:1992-12-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse

A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!

Release Date:1992-08-21

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2

Release Date:1992-06-21

Department:Production

Job:Production Supervisor

Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1

Release Date:1992-04-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown

A bizarre mystery created under the direction of director Jissoji. The mysterious and strange world of Jissoji is brought back to life here!

Release Date:1992-04-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Yoru no Maki

Horror film released in 1991.

Release Date:1991-10-21

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki

Horror film released in 1991.

Release Date:1991-08-25

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ki no Maki

Horror film released in 1991.

Release Date:1991-08-21

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: !! no Maki

Horror film released in 1991.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Sen no Maki

Horror film released in 1991.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ichi no Maki

Horror film released in 1991.

Release Date:1991-01-01

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.

Release Date:1990-04-14

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

La Valse

A rape incident has occurred. The victim was a woman named Yumiko Kawamura, 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.

Release Date:1990-02-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:3

Arietta

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.

Release Date:1989-07-29

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

The Men Who Made Ultraman

A biographical dramatization about the production of the original Ultraman, the beloved classic special effects fantasy series from Eiji Tsuburaya.

Release Date:1989-03-21

Department:Directing

Job:Script Supervisor

Vote Count:1

Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice

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.

Release Date:1988-08-27

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:6

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

Release Date:1988-01-30

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:18

Blue Lake Girl

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.

Release Date:1986-11-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Lanterns on Blue Waters

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.

Release Date:1983-11-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Twenty-Four Eyes

TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes.

Release Date:1980-10-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Marital War in Kibogaoka

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.

Release Date:1979-06-02

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

Akio Jissoji's Ultraman

Akio Jissoji's Ultraman is a 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film directed by Akio Jissoji. It is a compilation film made up of scenes from Jissoji's episodes of the original Ultraman TV series.

Release Date:1979-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

Utamaro's World

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.

Release Date:1977-02-20

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

It Was a Faint Dream

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.

Release Date:1974-10-26

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

Poem

The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the lawyer's wife's sexual dissatisfaction, and the arrival of the lawyer's brother, who has a plan for the family's land and property.

Release Date:1972-06-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:19

Silver Kamen

After Professor Kasuga is killed by fiendish aliens for plans to a super-rocketship, his children trek across Japan, protected by the second-oldest brother, Koji, who transforms into the super-cyborg, Silver Mask.

Release Date:1971-11-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

Mandala

Two university students from Kyoto decide to swap partners and spend the night in an isolated motel. However, one of the couples is attacked. Desperate for answers, they search for the attackers and come across a cult that promotes sexual freedom.

Release Date:1971-09-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:25

Return of Ultraman

In a fight between two giant monsters named Takkong and Zazahn, young race car driver Hideki Go is killed while trying to rescue a little boy and a dog from the falling rubble. His valiant sacrifice is noted by everyone, even his friends and the new defense force MAT, but an unseen being also takes notice. Looking over Go is the "New Ultraman", who is so touched by Go's actions that he decides to combine his life force with that of Hideki, thus bringing him back to life. Hideki Go then joins the MAT and fights alongside them and Ultraman against monsters and alien invaders.

Release Date:1971-04-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

This Transient Life

Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.

Release Date:1970-08-08

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:41

When Twilight Draws Near

Bored by the emptiness of everyday life, four students gather to play dangerous games in an apartment.

Release Date:1969-02-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:5

Operation: Mystery

Release Date:1968-09-15

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:5

Ultraseven

In the not-too-distant future, the Earth finds itself constantly under attack from extraterrestrial threats. The Terrestrial Defense Force establishes the Ultra Garrison, a team of six elite members who utilize high-tech vehicles and weaponry. Joining their fight is the mysterious Dan Moroboshi, secretly an alien from the Land of Light in Nebula M-78, who transforms into his true form in times of crisis, Ultraseven.

Release Date:1967-10-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:108

Ultraman

Hayata is a member of the Science Patrol, an organization tasked with investigating bizarre anomalies. He is mortally wounded when accidently encountering an alien being from Land of Light, who grants Hayata new life as the two are merged into one. Now, whenever a threat arises that is too great for the Science Patrol to handle, Hayata activates the beta capsule and becomes the hero known as Ultraman.

Release Date:1966-07-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:42

ウルトラマン前夜祭 ウルトラマン誕生

Video recording of a public event featuring Ultraman, held at the Suginami Public Hall in Tokyo on July 9, 1966, one week before Ultraman's first episode aired on tv. That makes it Ultraman's first apparence ever on tv.

Release Date:1966-07-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Birth of Ultraman

In this recorded stage debut of the original Ultraman, self-proclaimed world's number one kaiju tamer, Eiji Tsuburaya introduces Ultraman, the Science Special Search Party (SSSP), and various kaiju.

Release Date:1966-07-10

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

The Father of Ultra Q

Akio Jissoji's documentary on the production of Ultra Q. Interview with series creator Eiji Tsuburaya.

Release Date:1966-06-02

Department:Directing

Job:Director