Izo Hashimoto

Writing

Izo Hashimoto

Born

1954-02-21 (72)

Place of birth

Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Writer, director, and artist.

Known for

Akira poster
7.9

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Akira

1988

Lucky Sky Diamond poster
4.0

At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...

Lucky Sky Diamond

1989

The Peacock King poster
6.1

Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims to control the Earth. However, two monks skilful in magical powers set off on a journey to the cities to obstruct Ashura from unlocking the gates and stop Raga. Otherwise, not only will control of the Earth be at stake, but the King of Hell will resurrect and darkness will overcome the world.

The Peacock King

1988

Shamo poster
5.6

Ryo Narushima is a student who has served prison time for killing his parents. Once he is released, he trains to become a professional kick-boxer.

Shamo

2007

The Drifting Classroom poster
5.2

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.

The Drifting Classroom

1987

Sukeban Deka: The Movie poster
6.5

After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sanko Academy, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.

Sukeban Deka: The Movie

1987

Behind the camera

Akira poster
7.9

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Akira

1988

Lucky Sky Diamond poster
4.0

At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...

Lucky Sky Diamond

1989

Lucky Sky Diamond poster
4.0

At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...

Lucky Sky Diamond

1989

The Peacock King poster
6.1

Coerced by the evil Witch Raga, Ashura, the Hell Virgin, attempts to unlock the four Earth holes that lead to the Gates of Hell. Together, Raga aims to control the Earth. However, two monks skilful in magical powers set off on a journey to the cities to obstruct Ashura from unlocking the gates and stop Raga. Otherwise, not only will control of the Earth be at stake, but the King of Hell will resurrect and darkness will overcome the world.

The Peacock King

1988

Shamo poster
5.6

Ryo Narushima is a student who has served prison time for killing his parents. Once he is released, he trains to become a professional kick-boxer.

Shamo

2007

The Drifting Classroom poster
5.2

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.

The Drifting Classroom

1987

Sukeban Deka: The Movie poster
6.5

After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sanko Academy, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.

Sukeban Deka: The Movie

1987

Embalming poster
4.7

Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a recent suicide. While performing her duties, she pricks herself on a needle buried deep within the boy’s flesh. When the head is stolen during the night, Miyako begins a desperate search to recover it and finish her work, encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, and dark secrets from her own past along the way.

Embalming

1999

TO-Y poster
7.8

GASP is a popular alternative band. Conflict arises when the lead singer To-Y is offered a pop idol contract that stipulates he leave the rest of the band behind.

TO-Y

1987

Puru Puru Angelic Holiday poster
8.0

A fantasy comedy in which Fumie Hosokawa and Ai Iijima play angels. The angel Elle arrives on earth completely naked. She had escaped from heaven to fall in love with a human man on earth. Pure and unpredictable, she attempts her first adventures on Earth one after another, taking care of her pure white feathers that rot if she stays on Earth for more than seven days. However, when God notices Elle's escape, he gives Hirolin, another angel, a "space transfer device" and tries to bring her back to heaven.

Puru Puru Angelic Holiday

1993

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki poster
5.0

A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The projectionist's relationship with her attractive and successful reporter friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

1992

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki poster
5.0

A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy while a killer prowls the city. The projectionist's relationship with her attractive and successful reporter friend drives the plot deeper into insanity.

Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki

1992

The Guys from Paradise poster
6.9

The ever-prolific Takashi Miike directs this wild and woolly prison drama, reportedly based on real-life cases of Japanese imprisoned abroad.

The Guys from Paradise

2001

The West Tako Cheerleaders poster
NR

A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.

The West Tako Cheerleaders

1987

The West Tako Cheerleaders poster
NR

A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.

The West Tako Cheerleaders

1987

High School Agent poster
6.5

Teenager Kanemori Kousuke is a secret agent for the international VN spy network. Using his computer hacking skills, he tracks international criminals. Later he goes after Neo-Nazis to the Arctic were they try to raise a U-boat with a sinister secret.

High School Agent

1988

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You poster
NR

A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pinoko.

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

1996

Pistol Opera poster
6.1

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

Pistol Opera

2001

Black Jack poster
NR

Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.

Black Jack

1996

Shoot! poster
5.7

The Golden Trio of junior high school soccer players, Toshi, Kenji and Kazu, enroll at the new Kakegawa High School merely because they want to play with Kubo, the legendary player who learned his superb soccer techniques in Germany and who helped the Kakegawa team, which then consisted of freshmen only, win eight place in the all-Japan....

Shoot!

1994

Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters poster
5.3

After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heavy-handed manners, to the extent to equip his student agents with triple-bladed yo-yo weapons. However, when Sekin's methods become too zealous, Yui quits the bureau and refuses to undertake undercover missions for them. It is soon discovered that Sekin's actual goal is to overthrow the Japanese government, and the Kazama sisters, along with a gang of young outcasts, have to stop him.

Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters

1988

Computer Wars ISAMI poster
NR

In a controlled near-future society, Flying Popcorn gang leader Kikuo's group is forced into retirement after losing their team badge. Sub-leader Isami retaliates by infiltrating rival Salty Jets headquarters, stealing a hidden cassette tape that exposes the Jets leaders' secret betrayal with a criminal organization, and now returns to rescue captured friends.

Computer Wars ISAMI

1982

Computer Wars ISAMI poster
NR

In a controlled near-future society, Flying Popcorn gang leader Kikuo's group is forced into retirement after losing their team badge. Sub-leader Isami retaliates by infiltrating rival Salty Jets headquarters, stealing a hidden cassette tape that exposes the Jets leaders' secret betrayal with a criminal organization, and now returns to rescue captured friends.

Computer Wars ISAMI

1982

Dream Dimension Gentleman poster
5.0

When a strange group of men attempt to kidnap Atsuko Fukune, a dancer at a club, she seeks the help of Mamiya Mugen, a famous detective - who also happens to be a child. When it turns out that other girls have gone missing, Mamiya, with the help of his butler Alucard, springs into action to solve the mystery.

Dream Dimension Gentleman

1987

Cold poster
NR

Genius scientist Kikuo Himura (Yosuke Kubozuka) succeeds in developing a miracle cure for the cold virus. There are now people who are after Kikuo Himura's cold vaccine. Doctor Ichinose (Akira Emoto) is jealous of Kikuo Himura and tries to get the formula which is only in Kikuo Himura's head. Dougen (Chris Peppler) is a high-ranking member of a secret organization. Him and his subordinate try to get the vaccine source by any means necessary. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman, Sakurako (Manami Konishi) approaches Kikuo Himura.

Cold

2014

Kagerô 2 poster
10.0

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

Kagerô 2

1996

Kagerô 2 poster
10.0

An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.

Kagerô 2

1996

No artwork available
NR

An office lady (Yasuko Tomita) who has a bitter memory of Christmas Eve breaks up with her affair partner (Shoji Sadaoka) and finds a new love.

Ibu wa hatsukoi no yō ni

1991

Azami the Punisher poster
1.0

Azami spends her days as a tattoo artist who's in charge of her own parlor, but she also has another side. She is the punisher of evils that have gone beyond the usual laws of society. A former Miss Japan, Naoko Kamishirato, tattooed and nude in provocative scenes in her first starring role...

Azami the Punisher

1998

cf Girl poster
7.0

The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.

cf Girl

1989

cf Girl poster
7.0

The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Takashi Kitajima.

cf Girl

1989

Black Princess 2 Flame Target poster
6.0

A female detective realises that the construction company corruption case was not guilty... there was an evil mastermind behind it!

Black Princess 2 Flame Target

1991

Teito Monogatari Gaiden poster
6.8

In 1995, a mental hospital is erected near the Japanese Ministry of Finance, located adjacent to the grave of Taira no Masakado. A young male nurse by the name of Jin’ya Yanase is obsessed with the legend of Taira no Masakado and more importantly, the spirit of his evil subordinate Yasunori Kato. Slowly, he becomes possessed by Kato's spirit, who wants to use him as a new host to revive in the modern world. Keiko Tatsumiya (the heroine of the original story), is an old woman living homeless on the streets of Tokyo. When she senses the presence of Yasunori Kato, she must regain her resolve to face the demon-god and vanquish his spirit once and for all.

Teito Monogatari Gaiden

1995

Strawberry Times: Sugiura Miyuki no kojin kyōju poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Strawberry Times: Sugiura Miyuki no kojin kyōju

1989

TWD Express: Rolling Takeoff poster
5.0

A crew of space cargo workers rescue a beautiful android and land themselves in trouble thereby.

TWD Express: Rolling Takeoff

1987

Barrow Gang BC poster
9.0

Film about a pirate radio station.

Barrow Gang BC

1985

Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image poster
NR

Blackjack's surgery was to save Dr. Summit, a surgeon infected with a mysterious infectious disease. However, there appears Dr. Kiriko, who demands extraordinary money like Black Jack, but undertakes euthanasia instead of treatment.

Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image

1996

Gontakure poster
NR

A Yakuza comedy.

Gontakure

1995

No artwork available
NR

The second-generation president and his brother-in-law of the Toba clan, a don of the music world, are kidnapped. Singer Chiaki and pianist Yonosuke contact Chiaki's father, a detective, and police surround the island. The president's mother-in-law, who entered the island with the ransom money, is shot and injured, but the culprit who stole the money cannot be found. Chiaki begins to investigate the island on her own, and soon finds Kunihiko's body, a hunting rifle, and the ransom money in an island bomb shelter. This is a mystery that challenges the mystery of a bizarre kidnapping and murder involving the family of a prestigious president

Kieta minoshirokin

1994

Ramen Fight poster
NR

The story of young ramen chef, who takes ownership of Gantetsu Ramen after the disappearance of his father, determined to train hard to get back at those who led his father going missing.

Ramen Fight

1996