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Katsuhito Ishii
Niigata, Japan
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 19…
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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 film The Taste of Tea won Best Feature Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival. In 2006, he co-directed the feature film Funky Forest with fellow Japanese film makers and old school friends Shunichiro Miki and ANIKI. He founded his own production company, Nice Rainbow, in October 2006.
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2025
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline
Movie Creative Consultant
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2025
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
Movie Creative Director
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2025
Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special
Movie Director
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2022
Norioka Workshop
Movie Director
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2015
Gamera
Movie Director
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2014
Hello! Junichi
Movie Director
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2013
Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special
Movie Director
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2013
SHORT PEACE
TV show Original Series Design
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2013
Short Peace
Movie Screenplay
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2013
GAMBO
Movie Screenplay
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2011
Smuggler
Movie Director
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2009
Redline
Movie Background Designer
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2008
Sorasoi
Movie Director
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2008
My Darling of the Mountains
Movie Director
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2007
Hokuro Kyodai Full Throttle!!!!
Movie Director
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2006
NEW HAL&BONS
Movie Hal
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2005
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Movie Director
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2004
The Taste of Tea
Movie Writer
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2004
Cutie Honey
Movie
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2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Movie Animation Director
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2002
Frog River
Movie Story
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2002
Trava: Fist Planet
TV show Director
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2002
Hal & Bons
TV show Hal (voice)
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2001
Smap Short Films
Movie Director
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2001
Tales of the Bizarre: SMAP Special
Movie Director
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2000
Party 7
Movie Director
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1999
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
Movie Director
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1995
Promise of August
Movie Writer
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1990
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
TV show Director
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Funky Forest: The Second Contact
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