Takashi Ito Movies

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to...

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

"I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only...

Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace...

"With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making GHOST of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the...

A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways. Designs drawn...

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

"His films are like a roller-coaster. His way of throwing the act of seeing into utter confusion is an attack on the eyes in their corporeal...

This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is still without even a shudder in a white room. A...

The film follows the common sense storytelling of a dramatic film in which people meet other people and create relationships, but instead of...

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

A field of wilted sunflowers, a group of public housing units turned into ruins. Two girls who are like alter egos of each other. They wander around...

“I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the...

The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which...

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983...

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...