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Katsuhito Ishii

Katsuhito Ishii

Director · Born 1966-12-31 · Niigata, Japan

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Biography

Katsuhito Ishii is a Japanese film director. After graduating from Musashino Art University, Katsuhito Ishii got a job at Tohokushinsha Film and began directing commercials in 1992, receiving numerous awards in this field. His first short film The Promise of August, shot in 1995, went on to receive the Japanese Film Grand Prix in the Fantastic Video Section of the 1995 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He made his feature debut with Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, based on the visual novel by cult manga artist Minetaro Mochizuki and starring regular collaborator Tadanobu Asano. Ishii quickly followed his success with another box office hit, Party 7 (2000), which featured Masatoshi Nagase, Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano among others. Between the years 2001 and 2002, he created a series of short films including the 3D animated dialogue piece Hal & Bons and the 2D animated space opera Trava Fist Planet. Among other commercials and select TV projects including the short Black Room which starred Takuya Kimura, and Music Power Go Go!, He collaborated with Production I.G for the animation sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1. In 2004, his fourth feature…

Directed

  1. The Taste of Tea (2004) — Director
  2. Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) — Director
  3. Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999) — Director
  4. Smuggler (2011) — Director
  5. PARTY7 (2000) — Director
  6. Gamera (2015) — Director
  7. My Darling of the Mountains (2008) — Director
  8. Trava: Fist Planet (2002) — Director
  9. Hello! Junichi (2014) — Director
  10. Sorasoi (2008) — Director
  11. Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen (1990) — Director
  12. Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special (2013) — Director
  13. Promise of August (1995) — Director
  14. Tales of the Bizarre: SMAP Special (2001) — Director
  15. Smap Short Films (2001) — Director
  16. Hokuro Kyodai Full Throttle!!!! (2007) — Director
  17. Norioka Workshop (2022) — Director
  18. Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special (2025) — Director
  19. Funky Forest: The Second Contact — Director
  20. NEW HAL&BONS (2006) — Director
  21. Hal & Bons (2002) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Cutie Honey (2004)
  2. NEW HAL&BONS (2006) — Hal
  3. Hal & Bons (2002) — Hal (voice)