Isao Okishima

Directing

Isao Okishima

Born 1940-10-26 · Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Crimson Lotus poster
8.0

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.

Crimson Lotus

1993

Vagabond of Sex poster
3.7

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura’s documentary about her search for her missing husband.

Vagabond of Sex

1967

I Want it, I Want it, I’m Dying poster
4.1

There are rumors that “a mysterious woman who is very good at SEX will appear” in a small hot spring town. A magazine reporter from Tokyo finally finds out who she is

I Want it, I Want it, I’m Dying

1995

I Want it, I Want it, I’m Dying poster
4.1

There are rumors that “a mysterious woman who is very good at SEX will appear” in a small hot spring town. A magazine reporter from Tokyo finally finds out who she is

I Want it, I Want it, I’m Dying

1995

Sex Crimes poster
10.0

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.

Sex Crimes

1968

Business Trip poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Business Trip

1989

Business Trip poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Business Trip

1989

In 10,000 years poster
NR

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

In 10,000 years

2007

In 10,000 years poster
NR

The story centers around the communication between a man who abruptly appears in a world 10,000 years in the future and a boy who lives in that world.

In 10,000 years

2007

New Jack & Betty poster
NR

The lustful desires of a bourgeois family for a "meeting".

New Jack & Betty

1969

New Jack & Betty poster
NR

The lustful desires of a bourgeois family for a "meeting".

New Jack & Betty

1969

Okoru Saigyou poster
NR

Having worked in a wide range of fields from children's TV animation scripts to 'pink' films, independent auteur Okishima Isao directs and stars in this documentary. Upon hearing that the walkway along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, one of his favorite spots, was going to be closed to make way for a new road, he gathered his crew to document the scenery. Okishima gives accounts of various painters, writers, and manga artists, as well as his personal take on Saigyo, the traveling poet and Buddhist priest of the late Heian Period.

Okoru Saigyou

2010