Akio Jissoji
Directing
Born 1937-03-29
Died 2006-11-29
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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Akio Jissoji was a Japanese television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series Ultraman and Ultra Seven, as well as for his auteur erotic ATG-produced Buddhist trilogy Mujō (無常), Mandala (曼陀羅), and Uta (哥). He was also known for his film adaptations of Japanese horror author Rampo Edogawa. Jissoji possessed a very distinctive visual style that was notable even in Japanese cinema which is known internationally for its visual style. Every project he directed, from children's action shows to the most disturbing adult films had an uncompromising approach to cinematic story telling. His episodes of the Ultraman TV shows are unique and quite unusual for children's television. His career is also unusual in that he went back and forth from children's television to film projects that were sexually provocative in some way or another. It is perhaps this aspect of his work that has prevented wider distribution of his films. Sadomasochistic and non-consensual sexual practices are featured in many of his film works with women receiving the brunt of the abuse. Another recurring theme was to pull the camera back and reveal the set his actors were working on.
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Filmography
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Directing
43 credits
Ultraman
Ultraman Tiga
Ultraseven
Ultraman Max
Ultraman Dyna
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
Operation: Mystery
Silver Kamen
Murder on D Street
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Dialogue
The Rapeman: Nerawareta Onna-tachi
Mandala
Summer of Ubume
Rampo Noir
Akio Jissoji's Ultraman
This Transient Life
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Ten Nights of Dreams
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
A Watcher in the Attic
Poem
Mizuki Mari: Honban rankô
Utamaro's World
La Valse
The Father of Ultra Q
Twenty-Four Eyes
The Birth of Ultraman
Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice
Blue Lake Girl
It Was a Faint Dream
Silver Mask
Arietta
Arthouse Ultraman
When Twilight Draws Near
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
The Accursed Urns
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse
Tokyo Illusion
Lullaby of Death
Horror Telephone
I Want to Buy Kyoto
Writing
18 credits
Return of Ultraman
Ultraseven
Silver Kamen
Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
Dialogue
Tokyo Decameron
Mizuki Mari: Honban rankô
La Valse
Seikan: Futomomo naburi
Marital War in Kibogaoka
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Yoru no Maki
Arietta
The Men Who Made Ultraman
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ki no Maki
Tokyo Illusion
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Sen no Maki
Producing
6 credits
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 2
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 1
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 3
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
The Rug Cop
Silver Mask
Acting
5 credits
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2
The Men Who Made Ultraman
Ultra Heroine Legend: Contest of Goddesses
Zombie Snake
Other credits
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