Akio Jissoji
Known for: Directing
Born: March 29, 1937
Died: November 29, 2006
Place of birth: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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
55 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File
2007
6.3
Ten Nights of Dreams
2007
3.0
Silver Mask
2006
5.6
The Rug Cop
2006
NR
Cross the Lens
2006
7.4
Summer of Ubume
2005
6.0
Arthouse Ultraman
2005
9.1
Ultraman Max
2005
5.7
Rampo Noir
2005
NR
Ultra Heroine Legend: Contest of Goddesses
2005
10.0
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
2004
NR
Ultra Heroine Legend: From Anne to Seven
2004
NR
Zombie Snake
2000
7.0
Murder on D Street
1998
NR
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 1
1997
NR
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 3
1997
NR
Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 2
1997
8.1
Ultraman Dyna
1997
8.2
Ultraman Tiga
1996
2.5
Tokyo Decameron
1996
4.8
A Watcher in the Attic
19942.0
Mizuki Mari: Honban rankô
19932.0
Seikan: Futomomo naburi
1993
2.7
Dialogue
1992
6.0
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse
1992
NR
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2
1992
NR
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
1992
6.0
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
1992
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Yoru no Maki
1991
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ki no Maki
1991
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: !! no Maki
1991
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Sen no Maki
1991
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ichi no Maki
1991
8.0
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
1990
3.8
La Valse
1990
4.5
Arietta
1989
10.0
The Men Who Made Ultraman
1989
4.6
Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice
1988
6.2
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
1988NR
The Rapeman: Nerawareta Onna-tachi
1987
6.5
Blue Lake Girl
1986
NR
Tokyo Illusion
1986
NR
Longing for Spring
1984
5.8
Lanterns on Blue Waters
1983
NR
Twenty-Four Eyes
1980
3.8
Marital War in Kibogaoka
1979
8.0
Akio Jissoji's Ultraman
1979
5.6
Utamaro's World
1977
5.8
It Was a Faint Dream
1974
6.7
Poem
1972
10.0
Silver Kamen
1971
5.9
Mandala
1971
8.6
Return of Ultraman
1971
7.4
This Transient Life
1970
NR
I Want to Buy Kyoto
1969
NR
The Accursed Urns
1969
6.4
When Twilight Draws Near
1969
7.7
Operation: Mystery
1968
NR
Horror Telephone
1968
NR
Lullaby of Death
1968
7.9
Ultraseven
1967
8.4
Ultraman
1966
6.0
The Birth of Ultraman
1966
NR
The Father of Ultra Q
1966