Katsuhito Ishii

Directing·Dec 31, 1966·Niigata, Japan

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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.

Film	Credit
Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special2025 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Norioka Workshop2022 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Gamera2015 · Director	Director
Hello! Junichi2014 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special2013 · Director	Director
Smuggler2011 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Sorasoi2008 · Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography	Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
My Darling of the Mountains2008 · Director	Director
HHokuro Kyodai Full Throttle!!!!2007 · Director	Director
NEW HAL&BONS2006 · Hal, Director, Writer, Producer	Hal, Director, Writer, Producer
Funky Forest: The First Contact2005 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
The Taste of Tea2004 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Smap Short Films2001 · Director	Director
Tales of the Bizarre: SMAP Special2001 · Screenplay, Director	Screenplay, Director
Party 72000 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl1999 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Promise of August1995 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
FFunky Forest: The Second ContactDirector	Director