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)