Toshihiro Isomi Filmography

Tokyo!

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: Directors Michele Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Leos Carax each direct a segment of this triptych feature about life in 21st Century Tokyo. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mourning Forest

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Shigeki Uda, Machiko Ono, Makiko Watanabe, Kanako Masuda, Yoichiro Saito

Synopsis: Two people dealing with loss come together in this drama from Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase. Machiko (Machiko Ono) is a woman who is still recovering emotionally from the death of her young son when she takes a job at a nursing home, where she helps care for the elderly and ailing residents. One Read More

Man, Woman and the Wall

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Sola Aoi, Keita Ono, Hiroto Kato

Synopsis: A young magazine reporter finds his attraction to his beautiful new neighbor snowballing into obsession in this erotic thriller from Junk Food director Masahai Yamamoto. Ryo had just moved into his new apartment when he was greeted with the passionate cries of his ravishing neighbor Satsuki. Upon Read More

Shinobi

Crew: Art Director, Production Designer

Actors: Jô Odagiri, Yukie Nakama

Synopsis: Enraged by decades of treachery and mistrust, two magical samurai clans go to war despite the love that was meant to keep the peace in director Ten Shimoyama's feudal action entry. The year is 1614, and Japan has been unified under supreme shogun Tokugawa. Though the love shared between Gennosuke Read More

Hana

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta, Teruyuki Kagawa

Synopsis: Director Hirokazu Koreeda turns the popularly held conventions of the typical samurai evenge tale on their head with this story of a man whose quest to avenge the death of his father gradually takes a back seat to his emerging role as a key figure in the community. The year is 1702, and young Read More

Nobody Knows

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan

Synopsis: Hirokazu Kore-eda, who wrote and directed the international success After Life, returns with this story about a family dealing with an unusual dilemma in an unusual manner. Keiko (You) is a single mother who moves with her 12-year-old son, Akira (Yuya Yagira), into a small flat in a large city; Read More

Blood and Bones

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Beat Takeshi Kitano, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Tabata, Jô Odagiri, Kyoka Suzuki

Synopsis: Yoichi Sai directs Takeshi "Beat" Kitano in this adaptation of the popular Yang Seok-il novel concerning a violent, ruthless family patriarch whose obsession for money destroys all that surrounds him. In 1923, Kim Shun-pei left his home on a remote island south of Korea in order to seek out his Read More

St. John's Wort

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Megumi Okina, Yoichiro Saito, Koji Ookura, Reiko Matsuo, Minoru

Antenna

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Ryo Kase, Akemi Kobayashi, Daisuke Kizaki, Mantaro Koichi, Hiroshi Omori

Synopsis: Tales of a missing girl returned to her family years after being kidnapped flood the news. Yuichiro (Ryo Kase), a college student, returns home one day to find his little brother, Yuya (Daisuke Kizaki), sleeping on his doorstep. Yuya has come to tell Yuichiro that Marie will be coming home soon. Read More

Hoshi ni Negaio

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Yuko Takeuchi, Yu Yoshizawa, Kazuya Takahashi, Mami Nakamura, Riho Makise

Synopsis: Japanese director Shin Togashi spins this mystical tale of two young souls who may have been soul mates had they been given a chance in his 2003 romantic drama, Hoshi ni Negaio (Night of the Shooting Stars). Working long hours in the emergency room, nurse Kana Aoshima (Yuko Takeuchi) befriends Read More

Hebiichigo

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Hiroyuki Miyasako, Miho Tsumiki, Sei Hiraizumi, Naoko Otani, Toru Tezuka

Synopsis: The Akechi family is a quietly unhappy one. Yoshiro (Sei Hiraizumi), the breadwinner, has lost his job, but he keeps it a secret, leaving the house each day and returning late at night, and borrowing money to keep his family in the dark. Akiko (Naoko Otani), his wife, spends her days taking care Read More

Kimusho No Naka

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Yozaburo Ito, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yosuke Kubozuka, Yutaka Matsushige, Toshifumi Muramatsu

Synopsis: Yoichi Sai's prison film Doing Time stars Tsutomu Yamazaki as Hanawa, a man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of Hanawa's cellmates to abandon their individuality. Hanawa lasts longer than the others, but a stint in Read More

Electric Dragon 80.000 V

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Masatoshi Nagase

Synopsis: Following up on his exuberant Gojoe, which featured an ear-splitting soundtrack and a seizure-inducing editing style, veteran indie director Sogo Ishii spins this bizarre cyberpunk action flick about rock & roll and electricity. Ryuganji Morison (Tadanobu Asano) has two loves in his life Read More

Distance

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Arata, Yusuke Iseya, Yui Natsukawa, Susumu Terajima

Synopsis: Four people whose lives are connected by a common tragedy discuss the paths their lives have taken in this drama from Japan. Minoru (Susumu Terajima) is a businessman, Atsushi (Araka) is a disaffected post-modern teen, Kiyoka (Yui Natsukawa) is an educator, and Masaru (Yusuke Iseya) a quiet young Read More

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Masatoshi Nagase, Daisuke Ryu, Jun Kunimura

Synopsis: Maverick Japanese director Sogo Ishii takes an unexpectedly conventional approach in this screen adaptation of a well-known Japanese folk legend of the 12th century. In the long-standing battle of the Genji and Heiki clans, the Heiki have emerged triumphant, but they find they have a new adversary Read More

After Life

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naito, Kei Tani

Synopsis: Like his previous drama Maborosi (1995), Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life is a brilliant meditation on death and memory. The premise of After Life is simple: over the span of a week, twenty-two souls arrive at a way station (which looks like an old junior high school) between life and death, where Read More

Hakuchi

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Miyako Koda, Reika Hashimoto, Masao Kusakari, Shunji Fujimura

Synopsis: Director Macoto Tezka's harrowing drama is set in an alternate version of the 1990s in which World War II never ended and the citizens of Japan are subjected to nightly bombing raids. Japanese cult actor Tadanobu Asano stars as Izawa, a lowly production assistant in the corporate monolith Media Read More

Junk Food

Crew: Producer

Actors: Shizuko Yamamoto, Miyuki Ijima, Akifumi Yamaguchi, Keigo Naruse, Yoichi Okamura

Synopsis: Masashi Yamamoto directs this impressionist portrait of the drug-addled riff-raff at the edges of Japanese life. Told in a series of vignettes, the film opens with emaciated beauty Miyuki (Miyuki Iijima) polishing off a hit of crack and murdering her sleeping lover just before going to work. Read More

Labyrinth of Dreams

Crew: Production Designer

Synopsis: Veteran indie filmmaker Sogo Ishii spins this dream-like pulpy yarn about death and buses. Tomiko Tomonari (Rena Komine) works as a bus conductress, and though she gets to wear a spiffy uniform, she is thoroughly bored with her job and her life. One day, a new bus driver named Tatsuo Niitaka (Tadanobu Asano Read More

2/Duo

Crew: Art Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Eri Yu

Synopsis: In preparing for this film, director Nobuhiro Suwa wrote an detailed script and then threw it away at the last moment. Instead, in a manner reminscient of Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes, he worked intensively with the actors to develop their characters and allowed the script to develop from Read More