The Code Name Is Asia Strikes Back / 1/2 Mensch
Gakuryu ISHII 石井岳龍
アジアの逆襲
A rock band was at the source of ASIA STRIKES BACK, originally made to accompany live performances by The Bacillus Army, a punk super group with ISHII on vocals. The film is one of the earliest entries in Japan's cyberpunk cycle, a status only emphasised by the new soundtrack supplied by Hiroyuki ONOGAWA (Mach 1.67), composer of GOJOE and ELECTRIC DRAGON 80,000 V.
アジアの逆襲
Ajia no gyakushu
日本 2006
30 分
海外セールス
Dragon Mountain
キャスト
Yoshiki ARIZONO, Jun TAKEUCHI, Hidemaru, Isamu UNO, Johnny
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.
Gakuryu ISHII 石井岳龍
半分人間
After having caught ISHII's CRAZY FAMILY at a festival screening, Einstürzende Neubauten invited the director to film their Japanese tour. The band's philosophy that all noise is music gave ISHII the perfect platform to explore his emerging fascination with metaphysics: at the level of the atom, everything is equal.
半分人間
Hanbun ningen
日本 1985
50 分
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.