Panic Highschool / Shuffle / The Master of Shiatsu

  • Friday, June 7, 6:00 p.m. Cinema in the German Film Museum
  • with an introduction by Tom Mes
  • Panic High School
  • Koko dai panikku
    高校大パニック
  • Japan 1976, Digibeta, 17 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Sogo (Gakuryu) ISHII
  • World Sales: Dragon Mountain
  • Cast: Masanobu UMEZU, Jo NAKAMURA

Sogo ISHII's debut short film PANIC HIGH SCHOOL was shot on 8mm, but it encompasses much of the rage, the energy and the socio-political concerns that would characterise his later works. A high school student snaps and brings a rifle to school with every intention of using it on his teachers and classmates. (Tom Mes)

  • Shuffle
    シャッフル
  • Japan 1981, 35mm, 37 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Sogo (Gakuryu) ISHII
  • Script: Sogo ISHII nach einem Manga von Katsuhiro OTOMO
  • Director of Photography: Norimichi KASAMATSU
  • Music: Hikash
  • Cast: Yosuke NAKAJIMA, Tatsuya MORI, Shigeru MUROI

SHUFFLE continues PANIC HIGH SCHOOL'S angry young man narrative in a boisterous adaptation of a manga by Katsuhiro OTOMO, creator of AKIRA. (Tom Mes)

  • Master of Shiatsu
  • Shiatsu oja
    指圧王者
  • Japan 1989, 35mm, 13 min, Japanese with English subtitles
  • Director: Sogo (Gakuryu) ISHII
  • Script: Shinichi NAKAZAWA
  • Director of Photography: Noboru SHINODA
  • Music: Douser
  • World Sales: Dragon Mountain
  • Cast: Tokujiro NAMIKOSHI, Anna Hole

THE MASTER OF SHIATSU formed a brief comeback during a creative lull that would last from 1984 through 1994. An audiovisual equivalent of the titular high-intensity massage form, ISHII made it, in his own words, "for therapeutic reasons". (Tom Mes)

 

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