Akio Jissoji
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 29, 1937
- Died
- November 29, 2006 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Biography
Akio Jissoji was a Japanese television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series Ultraman and Ultra Seven, as well as for his auteur erotic ATG-produced Buddhist trilogy Mujō (無常), Mandala (曼陀羅), and Uta (哥). He was also known for his film adaptations of Japanese horror author Rampo Edogawa. Jissoji possessed a very distinctive visual style that was notable even in Japanese cinema which is known internationally for its visual style. Every project he directed, from children's action shows to the most disturbing adult films had an uncompromising approach to cinematic story telling. His episodes of the Ultraman TV shows are unique and quite unusual for children's television. His career is also unusual in that he went back and forth from children's television to film projects that were sexually provocative in some way or another. It is perhaps this aspect of his work that has prevented wider distribution of his films. Sadomasochistic and non-consensual sexual practices are featured in many of his film works with women receiving the brunt of the abuse. Another recurring theme was to pull the camera back and reveal the set his actors were working on.
Known For
Filmography
Ten Nights of Dreams
Movie · Director
Silver Mask
Movie · Director
Rampo Noir
Movie · Director
Summer of Ubume
Movie · Director
Arthouse Ultraman
Movie · Director
Ultraman Max
TV · Director · 2 eps
Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy
TV · Director · 2 eps
Murder on D Street
Movie · Director
Ultraman Dyna
TV · Director · 1 ep
Ultraman Tiga
TV · Director · 2 eps
A Watcher in the Attic
Movie · Director
Mizuki Mari: Honban rankô
Movie · Director
Akio Jissoji's Wonder Museum 1
Movie · Director
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of the Unknown
Movie · Director
Akio Jissoji's Museum of Wonders - Volume of Discourse
Movie · Director
Dialogue
Movie · Director
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
Movie · Director
La Valse
Movie · Director
Arietta
Movie · Director
The Men Who Made Ultraman
Movie · Script Supervisor
Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
Movie · Director
Marquis de Sade’s Prosperities of Vice
Movie · Director
The Rapeman: Nerawareta Onna-tachi
Movie · Director
Blue Lake Girl
Movie · Director
Tokyo Illusion
Movie · Director
Longing for Spring
Movie · Director
Lanterns on Blue Waters
Movie · Director
Twenty-Four Eyes
Movie · Director
Akio Jissoji's Ultraman
Movie · Director
Utamaro's World
Movie · Director
It Was a Faint Dream
Movie · Director
Poem
Movie · Director
Mandala
Movie · Director
Silver Kamen
TV · Director · 2 eps
This Transient Life
Movie · Director
When Twilight Draws Near
Movie · Director
I Want to Buy Kyoto
Movie · Director
The Accursed Urns
Movie · Director
Lullaby of Death
Movie · Director
Horror Telephone
Movie · Director
Operation: Mystery
TV · Director · 4 eps
Ultraseven
TV · Director · 4 eps
The Birth of Ultraman
Movie · Director
The Father of Ultra Q
Movie · Director
Ultraman
TV · Director · 6 eps