Gakuryu ISHII 石井岳龍
Isn't Anyone Alive?
Nippon Cinema ª
In this film, set on a university campus with an adjacent hospital, cult director ISHII confronts a group of people, going about their everyday lives, with the sudden end of the world, adapting a play by Shiro MAEDA. The result is a farcical ensemble comedy deftly mixing absurd humour with philosophical questions about life and death.
Thu., June 06, 2013, 14:30
Mousonturm Saal
German premiere
Original with English subtitles
Sun., June 09, 2013, 18:00
Kino des DFF
German premiere
Original with English subtitles
生きてるものはいないのか
Ikiteru mono wa inainoka
Japan 2011
113 minutes
Director
Gakuryu ISHII
Script
Shiro MAEDA based on a play by Shiro MAEDA
Cinematography
Yoshiyuki MATSUMOTO
Production
Dragon Mountain
World sales
Phantom Film
Cast
Shota SOMETANI, Rin TAKANASHI, Konatsu TANAKA, Kiyohiko SHIBUKAWA, Jun MURAKAMI
About Gakuryu ISHII
石井岳龍
Gakuryu (Sogo) ISHII was born in Fukuoka in 1957. His dystopian punk rock musical BURST CITY (1982) made him one of the precursors of the Japanese cyberpunk movement of the 1980s. Since then he has worked with renowned Japanese actors and international punk bands on numerous short and feature films. NIPPON CONNECTION dedicated a retrospective to his work in 2013.