Writing

Kishū Izuchi

Born

1968-04-25 (58)

Place of birth

Mie, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

43 titles

Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Known for

A Fool's Love poster
6.0

Kawai Joji, an aspiring screenwriter who has won a screenplay competition but has yet to make his professional debut, meets a beautiful woman, Naomi, in a rundown bar one day. Naomi says she is working at the bar while aiming to become an actress. On another day, Joji is asked by his screenplay instructor if he would like to write a screenplay for a film based on Tanizaki Junichiro's "A Fool's Love" on his behalf. Joji is determined to succeed this time, but struggles to write the script. Meanwhile, Joji meets Naomi again, and the two of them quickly become closer, but...

A Fool's Love

2024

Drowning Love poster
6.2

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

Drowning Love

2016

Lazarus poster
NR

A woman who has been dreaming of an ordinary happy life starts wishing for the collapse of the world following an incident.

Lazarus

2007

Almost Love poster
NR

It tells the story of loss and rebirth of Hayao, a novelist who is drawn to a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Izumi, whom he reunites with after the death of his teacher.

Almost Love

2026

Moon Child poster
5.8

Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.

Moon Child

2003

Meshû: Torokeru Kashin poster
2.0

Based on the world of Taiyo Matsumoto's manga "Tekkonkinkreet" this film sublimates the story of a young girl crow and a seagull living a free and unrestrained life into a mythological tale. In the mysterious futuristic landscape of the waterfront subcenter when there were few leisure facilities, the film powerfully depicts the struggles and battles of the vital life force that pervades the city.

Meshû: Torokeru Kashin

1996

Film credits

Behind the camera

A Fool's Love poster
6.0

Kawai Joji, an aspiring screenwriter who has won a screenplay competition but has yet to make his professional debut, meets a beautiful woman, Naomi, in a rundown bar one day. Naomi says she is working at the bar while aiming to become an actress. On another day, Joji is asked by his screenplay instructor if he would like to write a screenplay for a film based on Tanizaki Junichiro's "A Fool's Love" on his behalf. Joji is determined to succeed this time, but struggles to write the script. Meanwhile, Joji meets Naomi again, and the two of them quickly become closer, but...

A Fool's Love

2024

Drowning Love poster
6.2

Natsume Mochizuki works as a teen model in Tokyo, but she learns that she has to move to her father's hometown of Ukigumo. She is in a desperate situation because she can't do the things she wants to do in Ukigumo. One day, she meets Koichiro Hasegawa. He is the successor of the Hasegawa family. His family is wealthy and is respected in the area. Natsume Mochizuki and Koichiro Hasegawa become attracted to each other, but something changes their fate.

Drowning Love

2016

Lazarus poster
NR

A woman who has been dreaming of an ordinary happy life starts wishing for the collapse of the world following an incident.

Lazarus

2007

Lazarus poster
NR

A woman who has been dreaming of an ordinary happy life starts wishing for the collapse of the world following an incident.

Lazarus

2007

Almost Love poster
NR

It tells the story of loss and rebirth of Hayao, a novelist who is drawn to a relationship with his ex-girlfriend Izumi, whom he reunites with after the death of his teacher.

Almost Love

2026

Moon Child poster
5.8

Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's footsteps as a vampire with the gift of eternal life and the curse of blood thirst. Over time, their tight friendship becomes corrupted because of their rivalry and love for the same woman.

Moon Child

2003

Meshû: Torokeru Kashin poster
2.0

Based on the world of Taiyo Matsumoto's manga "Tekkonkinkreet" this film sublimates the story of a young girl crow and a seagull living a free and unrestrained life into a mythological tale. In the mysterious futuristic landscape of the waterfront subcenter when there were few leisure facilities, the film powerfully depicts the struggles and battles of the vital life force that pervades the city.

Meshû: Torokeru Kashin

1996

The Suicide Chain poster
2.0

After attempting to meet someone new on a dating website, Chihiro starts talking to Makoto, who is asking around about a string of suicides. She agrees to meet with him, as she knew one of the girls that recently passed. After the two begin to connect a bit, Makoto gets an e-mail from Chihiro, saying she doesn't see a purpose to continue living.

The Suicide Chain

2001

Kokkuri poster
4.1

Schoolgirls on the verge of adulthood know that boys can be feckless and girls treacherous. Three friends gather around a Ouija board to call forth the spirit of Kokkuri. Masami has a boyfriend, Akira; Hiroko, who is nervous about the séance, wonders if she should take the plunge into sex; Mio is haunted by her mother's suicide. She also has a secret life as the voice of a midnight talk show host, the sexually-charged Midori. Mio must explore her past and her new feelings. Can she hold off the power and predictions of Kokkuri to enter adulthood, or will the destructive and romantic side of teen spirit be too powerful?

Kokkuri

1997

Manji poster
2.6

Sonoko, a bored married woman, falls for a fellow art student, the young and beautiful Mitsuko. The relationship develops and starts to affect and involve their partners.

Manji

2023

The Faceless Dead poster
NR

What if an unknown stranger somewhere impersonates you and lives life? 24-year-old TAKIGAWA Misaki (TODO Umi) aspiring to be a non-fiction writer, receives a strange phone call saying TAKIGAWA Misaki is in a coma in a hospital. Learning that someone has posed as Misaki, she visits the hospital and finds an unexpected person. She begins to discover the woman's real name and the reason why she had to be someone else.

The Faceless Dead

2009

The Faceless Dead poster
NR

What if an unknown stranger somewhere impersonates you and lives life? 24-year-old TAKIGAWA Misaki (TODO Umi) aspiring to be a non-fiction writer, receives a strange phone call saying TAKIGAWA Misaki is in a coma in a hospital. Learning that someone has posed as Misaki, she visits the hospital and finds an unexpected person. She begins to discover the woman's real name and the reason why she had to be someone else.

The Faceless Dead

2009

Love and Treachery poster
4.5

Kyosuke, an editor at a publishing company, keeps his concerns about his stagnant relationship with his wife hidden. As he struggles with his feelings, he meets Reika, the lover of an talented up-and-coming novelist, and becomes obsessed with her.

Love and Treachery

2011

Raigyo poster
5.8

A black clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through a phone sex club.

Raigyo

1997

Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider- poster
4.5

A tattoo changes a woman. A tattoo changes a man. Tattoo is everything ... Asami, a woman who breaks into an affair with a man who has a wife the name is Ninomiya, a man who leaves the house apart from his wife and is inviting a self-development seminar to live today. The two who atoned for the past and asked for salvation met by chance. Asami, who decided to carve a tattoo by her own choice, entrusts her skin to a genius skin carver, Kokari. Eventually, a splendid woman's tattoo leaps on her back, which dramatically changes herself. Tattoo greatly changes Ninomiya's way of life and captivates the sculpture that dreams of the completion of tattoos. Eventually, the fate of men and women who were tossed by tattoos began to fluctuate greatly.

Si-Sei 2 -The Fallen Spider-

2007

Eyes on Me poster
4.7

After the death of his wife, Yukio has become more and more paranoid, believing that he is being followed and watched at all times. Yukio's late wife, before her death, was seeing and sleeping with another man. Not only did Yukio know about the affair, he would watch them have sex. Unbeknownst to his wife, his peeping on her became like a fetish. As the film progresses, Yukio goes to see a counselor to try and figure out his phobia and discover his deep repressed thoughts about his wife. In comes Akemi, Yukio's ex-girlfriend from almost a decade prior. Akemi is unhappy with her marriage and seeks the warm embrace of Yukio, which only furthers his descent into madness.

Eyes on Me

1999

The Fetist poster
6.9

In the district of Shinjuku, a cut-throat rōnin student crosses paths with an uninspired painter who does the utmost for his envisioned muse.

The Fetist

1998

The Dream of Garuda poster
4.7

A convicted rapist, Ikuo is released from prison and goes in pursuit of the woman he raped, Mieko. So obsessed is he with revenge he sees her in every woman he meets. After carrying out vicious attacks on a prostitute and a young girl he finally comes face to face with her.

The Dream of Garuda

1994

Far Away, Further Away poster
1.0

A marriage is weaker without something in common. Sayoko (SHINDO Manami) is a seemingly carefree woman but she hides doubts about her marriage behind her cheerful demeanour. After five years of being in Tokyo, it is apparent that she has little in common with her husband and so she begins scoping out apartments which is how she meets Yohei (YOSHIMURA Kaito), a real estate agent who is nursing a broken heart. As they tour properties, Sayoko's girlish charms work their magic on the downhearted man and she convinces him to look for the wife who abandoned him but their journey brings the two closer.

Far Away, Further Away

2022

Mofuku Shimai: Tappuri Nurashite poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mofuku Shimai: Tappuri Nurashite

1999

Jesus in Nirvana poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jesus in Nirvana

1998

Jesus in Nirvana poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jesus in Nirvana

1998

Dirty Maria poster
3.3

Fumiko, a married bookkeeper at a hair salon, is having an affair with one of the stylists, Sawai. Suspecting that her co-worker Mayumi is also involved with him, Fumiko murders her in a fit of jealousy, dismembers the body, and disposes of the remains around the city. When Mayumi’s husband, taxi driver Yukio, comes looking for his missing wife, Fumiko approaches him and claims that Mayumi had wanted to visit a hot-spring resort in the snowy mountains. The two set out together in search of her, each carrying motives and resentments of their own, as their strange journey gradually develops into an uneasy and increasingly dangerous intimacy.

Dirty Maria

1998

The Cold-Blooded Trap poster
8.0

Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.

The Cold-Blooded Trap

1998

Hysteric poster
9.0

In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a short temper and no visible means of support. Amour fou blooms between them, and a year later they're living together, with Mami taking part as Tomo abducts, tortures, and kills one of their neighbors. Eventually the cycle of crime goes too far for Mami and she leaves Tomo, but several years later, he arrives at her home to disrupt her life with her new husband. Hysteric was directed by Takahisa Zeze, who previously received critical acclaim for the film Kokkuri. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Hysteric

2000

No artwork available
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fellatio Angel: Mascot in White Uniform

2000

All About Her poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

All About Her

2012

All About Her poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

All About Her

2012

All About Her poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

All About Her

2012

What a Wonderful Life!! poster
NR

Shuichi Furukawa receives a phone call from his mother. She reminds him that they are moving the next day. The following day, Shuichi takes a train ride back to his hometown. He arrives at his parents home, but nobody is home. He looks for the house key under a potted plant but can't find the key. He starts to thinks back to his childhood days in his parents home. Shuichi grew up with his younger brother, older sister, father who ran a shoe making business out of their garage and mother. Shuichi grew up with a crush on an older woman who lived next door and he loved to make piggy banks out of empty whiskey bottles. One day on a school picnic, Shuichi's classmates grabbed a lunchbox from a fellow student and eventually gave the lunch box to Shuichi. All the other students chanted "throw it away," while Shuichi's former friend looked on in despair.

What a Wonderful Life!!

2010

Daydream poster
2.2

An artist named Kurahashi and a female artist named Cheiko wait in a dentist's waiting room. The man feels attracted to the woman but says nothing to her. Later in the examining room, both patients are going under anesthesia, but the man looks over at the woman and sees the dentist and nurse taking off her clothes, while sucking her body for blood like vampires. The man and woman escape from the dentist's office, but their horror is only about to begin...

Daydream

2009

Counterfeit poster
NR

Kageko, a teacher in a small mountain village with a thriving Japanese paper industry, is visited by a former student, who proposes a plan to manufacture counterfeit money. She initially refuses, but eventually decides to join the project for the sake of the poor children in the village and her own mentally handicapped child.

Counterfeit

2009

Upcoming Scenery poster
4.3

Junko, who has precognition, predicted her senior's death and disappeared from her fiancé's life. Five years later, Junko, who works in a peep-shop, reunites with Kazuki and rekindles their love, but tragedy soon ensues. Hotaru Hatsuki, one of the most popular actresses of the 1990s, gives a strong performance in this poignant tale of a woman's attempt to escape her fate.

Upcoming Scenery

1996

Yakuza Wives’ Code of Honor: The Demon’s Scream poster
NR

Having lost her husband, the second-generation head of the Nanjo-gumi, Shiho inherited the position of the third-generation head and works as a nurse while continuing her yakuza business. One day, a man named Masaya is brought to the hospital where Shiho works, severely injured and unconscious. Masaya's injuries are improving, but he has lost his memory. Several men who look like gang members appear and threaten Masaya, causing chaos in the hospital. Unable to bear watching this any longer, Shiho hides Masaya and takes him away from the hospital without telling anyone, intending to take care of him until he regains his memory...

Yakuza Wives’ Code of Honor: The Demon’s Scream

2002

Left Alone poster
NR

New Left documentary

Left Alone

2005

Fall Into The Blue poster
2.0

Yasuko and Shizuka, friends and coworkers, come to be so much more after a terrible incident involving Shizuka’s boyfriend. After an intense fight that left Shizuka with a black eye, she takes her revenge by bludgeoning her boyfriend in the head, leaving his lifeless body on the bathroom floor. Yasuko pledges her support to Shizuka and tells her its all going to be ok, and that she will help take care of the body. The two women share a bed while staying with Yasuko’s sister, and things start to get hot and heavy.

Fall Into The Blue

2006

Slow Motion poster
2.0

A young man living in a provincial city falls in love with a stripper. Due to his innate shame, he is unable to express his feelings, and his pent-up emotions end up manifesting in the despicable form of betrayal of his friend.

Slow Motion

1996

Piranha poster
NR

Natsu is unable to reveal her feelings to 'bento' (lunchbox) vendor Sone. Through the arrangement of Haruo, a man she has just met, she begins living together with Sone. But things aren't the way she expected them to be...

Piranha

2010

No Good Men poster
4.2

No Good Men follows Kumiko, a young and attractive woman that works at a travel agency, and moonlights as an insatiable, sex-hungry mistress.

No Good Men

1995

Yaneura no Sanposha poster
NR

The "pedestrian" is replaced with a woman, and in the theater of a certain boarding hall, many of the hectic scenes filled with the nature of the residence of the resident of the residence are drawn in a beautiful and sensual manner.

Yaneura no Sanposha

2006