NEW HAL&BONS
2006 · Movie
as Hal
Katsuhito Ishii
1966-12-31
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Niigata, Japan
Writers:
Katsuhito Ishii is a Japanese film director. After graduating from Musashino Art University, Katsuhito Ishii got a job at Tohokushinsha Film and began directing commercials in 1992, receiving numerous awards in this field. His first short film The Promise of August, shot in 1995, went on to receive the Japanese Film Grand Prix in the Fantastic Video Section of the 1995 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. He made his feature debut with Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, based on the visual novel by cult manga artist Minetaro Mochizuki and starring regular collaborator Tadanobu Asano. Ishii quickly followed his success with another box office hit, Party 7 (2000), which featured Masatoshi Nagase, Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano among others. Between the years 2001 and 2002, he created a series of short films including the 3D animated dialogue piece Hal & Bons and the 2D animated space opera Trava Fist Planet. Among other commercials and select TV projects including the short Black Room which starred Takuya Kimura, and Music Power Go Go!, He collaborated with Production I.G for the animation sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1. In 2004, his fourth feature film The Taste of Tea won Best Feature Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival. In 2006, he co-directed the feature film Funky Forest with fellow Japanese film makers and old school friends Shunichiro Miki and ANIKI. He founded his own production company, Nice Rainbow, in October 2006.
Filmography
Crew Credits
LUPIN THE IIIRD: The Movie - The Immortal Bloodline
2025 · Movie
Creative Consultant
LUPIN THE IIIRD: Zenigata and the Two Lupins
2025 · Movie
Creative Director, Creative Consultant
Tales of the Bizarre: 35th Anniversary Special
2025 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Norioka Workshop
2022 · Movie
Director, Writer
Gamera
2015 · Movie
Director
Hello! Junichi
2014 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Tales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special
2013 · Movie
Director
GAMBO
2013 · Movie
Creative Director, Screenplay, Original Story
Short Peace
2013 · Movie
Screenplay, Original Story
SHORT PEACE
2013 · TV Show
Original Series Design, Writer
Smuggler
2011 · Movie
Director, Screenplay
Redline
2009 · Movie
Background Designer, Original Story, Screenplay
My Darling of the Mountains
2008 · Movie
Director, Editor
Sorasoi
2008 · Movie
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
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Hokuro Kyodai Full Throttle!!!!
2007 · Movie
Director
NEW HAL&BONS
2006 · Movie
Director, Writer, Original Concept, Producer
Funky Forest: The First Contact
2005 · Movie
Screenplay, Director
The Taste of Tea
2004 · Movie
Director, Writer, Editor
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003 · Movie
Animation Director
Frog River
2002 · Movie
Story
Trava: Fist Planet
2002 · TV Show
Director, Screenplay, Original Story, Creator
Hal & Bons
2002 · TV Show
Director, Writer, Producer
Smap Short Films
2001 · Movie
Director
Tales of the Bizarre: SMAP Special
2001 · Movie
Screenplay, Director
PARTY7
2000 · Movie
Director, Writer
Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
1999 · Movie
Director, Writer, Editor
Promise of August
1995 · Movie
Writer, Director
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 · TV Show
Director, Writer
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Funky Forest: The Second Contact
· Movie
Director
