Izo Hashimoto
Writer, director, and artist.
Works
Cold
Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo Himura's cold vaccine. Doctor Ichinose (Akira Emoto) is jealous of Kikuo Himura and tries to get the formula which is only in Kikuo Himura's head. Dougen (Chris Peppler) is a high-ranking member of a secret organization. Him and his subordinate try to get the vaccine source by any means necessary. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman, Sakurako (Manami Konishi) approaches Kikuo Himura.
Release Date: 2014-09-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
マルホの女
Kashiwagi Natsuko, who has stayed in the US for a long time, is a new investigator of Adjust Research, an insurance investigation firm. She possesses scientific genius and vast personal wealth, but has a tendency to feel out of place in Japanese society which is overly logical. On the other hand, Tono Aki is a veteran investigator in the same company. Born in the old part of Tokyo and a former delinquent, she is rather stingy because she lived in poverty when she was growing up. However, she has superb memory and animal instincts. Natsuko and Aki make an odd combination as they confront ingenious crimes associated with insurance money and expose the truth.
Release Date: 2014-04-11
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Shamo
Ryo Narushima is a student who has served prison time for killing his parents. Once he is released, he trains to become a professional kick-boxer.
Release Date: 2007-05-17
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 24
Oh! My Zombie Mermaid
A pro wrestler is forced to participate on a wrestling reality show to win a new home and restore his wife, who is infected with a mermaid virus.
Release Date: 2004-01-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Pistol Opera
An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.
Release Date: 2001-10-27
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 21
The Guys from Paradise
Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salary man Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison on false drug charges, and assumes his lawyers will clear up this misunderstanding fairly quickly. However, he soon comes to the realization that his innocence means less than how much bribe money he’s able to come up with for his release. It becomes apparent that Kohei is going to have to get to know his fellow inmates a little better, as he’s obviously in this situation for the long haul; but meeting a female inmate from a nearby jail certainly makes his transition to the criminal life a little easier to take.
Release Date: 2001-06-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 13
The Neighbours Are Secretly Laughing
The story starts with a serial killer, whose victims are lone women and acts are perpetrated in Mizuno Maki's neighborhood (it is suggested that Motoki is this serial killer). Motoki is a police officer with 2 faces: he has an obsession for housewife Maki and is very gentle with her, and on the other side he rapes & tortures one of her friend, Kanda Uno. His ultimate goal seems to make Maki fall in love with him: so he uses her friend Uno to affect her relationship with her husband & he gradually introduces himself into her life. Another person is also obsessed with Maki (she is a sort of public personality as she runs a cooking club with other housewives and appears in magazines), harassing her all the time on the phone, spying on her, etc...: this person is close to her as he knows things from her past (her son drowned in an accident). Motoki also had an ordeal in his past: his mother was killed in a fire, by her lover.
Release Date: 1999-10-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
Embalming
Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should not be. During the night the head is removed from the body and stolen, Miyako begins a desperate search for it so she can finish her work. Miyako search finds her encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, incest, psychopathic schizophrenics as well as some very dark secrets from here own past.
Release Date: 1999-07-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
A Woman With Many Wounds
Release Date: 1999-04-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Azami the Punisher
Azami spends her days as a tattoo artist who's in charge of her own parlor, but she also has another side. She is the punisher of evils that have gone beyond the usual laws of society. A former Miss Japan, Naoko Kamishirato, tattooed and nude in provocative scenes in her first starring role...
Release Date: 1998-12-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Three Sisters Investigate
Three sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves.
Release Date: 1998-01-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 10
FiVE
Release Date: 1997-04-19
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Weather Report Girl
This live-action Japanese TV series is based on Tetsu Adachi's manga. The series is split into two parts, each one consisting of six episodes. The first part is based on the manga's original storyline and, of course, focuses on Keiko Nakadai and her infamous rise to fame. The second part, on the other hand, has a completely original storyline made exclusively for this TV series that focuses on the adventures of another woman, Ryoko Makino, after she is chosen as a new weather anchor on TV.
Release Date: 1997-01-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 6
Ramen Fight
The story of young ramen chef, who takes ownership of Gantetsu Ramen after the disappearance of his father, determined to train hard to get back at those who led his father going missing.
Release Date: 1996-07-15
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Can't Stand It Whatsoever
Release Date: 1996-07-02
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 12
Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image
Blackjack's surgery was to save Dr. Summit, a surgeon infected with a mysterious infectious disease. However, there appears Dr. Kiriko, who demands extraordinary money like Black Jack, but undertakes euthanasia instead of treatment.
Release Date: 1996-06-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You
A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.
Release Date: 1996-05-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Black Jack
Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.
Release Date: 1996-04-25
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Kagerô 2
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
Release Date: 1996-02-10
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Teito Monogatari Gaiden
In 1995, a mental hospital is erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by the name of Jin’ya Yanase is obsessed with the legend of Taira no Masakado and more importantly, the spirit of his evil subordinate Yasunori Kato. Slowly, he becomes possessed by Kato's spirit, who wants to use him as a new host to revive in the modern world. Keiko Tatsumiya (the heroine of the original story), is an old woman living homeless on the streets of Tokyo. When she senses the presence of Yasunori Kato, she must regain her resolve to face the demon-god and vanquish his spirit once and for all.
Release Date: 1995-09-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Gontakure
A Yakuza comedy.
Release Date: 1995-04-28
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Kieta minoshirokin
The second-generation president and his brother-in-law of the Toba clan, a don of the music world, are kidnapped. Singer Chiaki and pianist Yonosuke contact Chiaki's father, a detective, and police surround the island. The president's mother-in-law, who entered the island with the ransom money, is shot and injured, but the culprit who stole the money cannot be found. Chiaki begins to investigate the island on her own, and soon finds Kunihiko's body, a hunting rifle, and the ransom money in an island bomb shelter. This is a mystery that challenges the mystery of a bizarre kidnapping and murder involving the family of a prestigious president
Release Date: 1994-09-17
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Shoot!
The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School merely because they want to play with Kubo, the legendary player who learned his superb soccer techniques in Germany and who helped the Kakegawa team, which then consisted of freshmen only, win eight place in the all-Japan....
Release Date: 1994-03-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
Driving High!
Kaoru is a former racing driver who retired two years ago. She is invited by her brother Saburo to return to Team Alesis, which he owns, as a B driver. However, the mechanics don't think it's a good idea for Kaoru, a woman, to be driving, and their relationship becomes awkward.
Release Date: 1994-01-01
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Puru Puru Angelic Holiday
A fantasy comedy in which Fumie Hosokawa and Ai Iijima play angels. The angel Elle arrives on earth completely naked. She had escaped from heaven to fall in love with a human man on earth. Pure and unpredictable, she attempts her first adventures on Earth one after another, taking care of her pure white feathers that rot if she stays on Earth for more than seven days. However, when God notices Elle's escape, he gives Hirolin, another angel, a "space transfer device" and tries to bring her back to heaven.
Release Date: 1993-12-29
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki
A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The projectionist's relationship with her attractive and successful reporter friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.
Release Date: 1992-07-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 24
Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni
An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.
Release Date: 1991-12-16
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Black Princess 2 Flame Target
A female detective realises that the construction company corruption case was not guilty... there was an evil mastermind behind it!
Release Date: 1991-03-08
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
cf Girl
The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.
Release Date: 1989-10-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Strawberry Times: Sugiura Miyuki no kojin kyōju
Release Date: 1989-07-09
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Lucky Sky Diamond
Japanese gore horror film, often sold as an unofficial "Guinea Pig" sequel.
Release Date: 1989-03-11
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 9
The Peacock King
Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims to control the Earth. However, two monks skilful in magical powers set off on a journey to the cities to obstruct Ashura from unlocking the gates and stop Raga. Otherwise, not only will control of the Earth be at stake, but the King of Hell will resurrect and darkness will overcome the world.
Release Date: 1988-12-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 11
Akira
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Release Date: 1988-06-10
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 4388
High School Agent
Teenager Kanemori Kousuke is a secret agent for the international VN spy network. Using his computer hacking skills, he tracks international criminals. Later he goes after Neo-Nazis to the Arctic were they try to raise a U-boat with a sinister secret.
Release Date: 1988-02-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 2
High School Agent
Release Date: 1988-02-12
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heavy-handed manners, to the extent to equip his student agents with triple-bladed yo-yo weapons. However, when Sekin's methods become too zealous, Yui quits the bureau and refuses to undertake undercover missions for them. It is soon discovered that Sekin's actual goal is to overthrow the Japanese government, and the Kazama sisters, along with a gang of young outcasts, have to stop him.
Release Date: 1988-02-11
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
TO-Y
GASP is a popular alternative band. Conflict arises when the lead singer To-Y is offered a pop idol contract that stipulates he leave the rest of the band behind.
Release Date: 1987-10-01
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5
The West Tako Cheerleaders
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.
Release Date: 1987-08-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
TWD Express: Rolling Takeoff
A crew of space cargo workers rescue a beautiful android and land themselves in trouble thereby.
Release Date: 1987-07-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
The Drifting Classroom
An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.
Release Date: 1987-07-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 7
Dream Dimension Gentleman
When a strange group of men attempt to kidnap Atsuko Fukune, a dancer at a club, she seeks the help of Mamiya Mugen, a famous detective - who also happens to be a child. When it turns out that other girls have gone missing, Mamiya, with the help of his butler Alucard, springs into action to solve the mystery.
Release Date: 1987-02-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Sukeban Deka: The Movie
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sanko Academy, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.
Release Date: 1987-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 5
Namadori kaikin tour: Mushirareta bikini
Three fun loving sisters, Mai, Eri and Ami enjoy the tropical paradise of Saipan with the local beach boys!
Release Date: 1985-07-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Barrow Gang BC
Film about a pirate radio station.
Release Date: 1985-04-27
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Sukeban Deka
A juvenile delinquent code-named Saki Asamiya is taken in by the government and forced to fight crime to redeem her actions. She is sent to various high schools to infiltrate and neutralize gangs and other forms of crime as a police officer using her metal yo-yo badge as a weapon.
Release Date: 1985-04-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 3
Computer Wars ISAMI
Independent scifi film by Izo Hashimoto.
Release Date: 1982-08-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director