Akio Jissoji
- Directing
- March 29, 1937 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- November 29, 2006
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Kaiki Daisakusen - Second File · Writer
- Ten Nights of Dreams · Director
- Silver Mask · Director, Executive producer
- The Rug Cop · Supervising Producer
- Cross the Lens · Self
- Summer of Ubume · Director
- Arthouse Ultraman · Director
- Ultraman Max · Director
- Rampo Noir · Director
- Ultra Heroine Legend: Contest of Goddesses · Self
- Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy · Director
- Ultra Heroine Legend: From Anne to Seven · Self
- Zombie Snake · Title Designer
- Murder on D Street · Director
- Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 1 · Producer
- Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 2 · Producer
- Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 3 · Producer
- Ultraman Dyna · Director
- Ultraman Tiga · Director
- Tokyo Decameron · Story
- A Watcher in the Attic · Director
- Mizuki Mari: Honban rankô · Director, Screenplay
- Seikan: Futomomo naburi · Screenplay
- Dialogue · Director, Editing
- Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse · Director
- Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 2 · Production Supervisor
- Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1 · Director, Screenplay
- Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown · Director
- Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Yoru no Maki · Creator
- Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki · Creator
- Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ki no Maki · Creator
- Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: !! no Maki · Creator
- Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Sen no Maki · Creator
- Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Ichi no Maki · Creator
- Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars · Director
- La Valse · Director, Writer
- Arietta · Director, Screenplay
- The Men Who Made Ultraman · Script Supervisor, Story
- Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice · Director
- Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis · Director, Producer
- The Rapeman: Nerawareta Onna-tachi · Director
- Blue Lake Girl · Director
- Tokyo Illusion · Director, Screenplay
- Longing for Spring · Director
- Lanterns on Blue Waters · Director
- Twenty-Four Eyes · Director
- Marital War in Kibogaoka · Story
- Akio Jissoji's Ultraman · Director
- Utamaro's World · Director
- It Was a Faint Dream · Director
- Poem · Director
- Silver Kamen · Director, Creator
- Mandala · Director
- Return of Ultraman · Writer
- This Transient Life · Director
- I Want to Buy Kyoto · Director
- The Accursed Urns · Director
- When Twilight Draws Near · Director
- Operation: Mystery · Director
- Horror Telephone · Director
- Lullaby of Death · Director
- Ultraseven · Director, Writer
- Ultraman · Director
- The Birth of Ultraman · Director
- The Father of Ultra Q · Director