Katsuhito Ishii
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.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
December 31, 1966Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
20Place of birth
Niigata, JapanAlso known as
石井 克人 , 石井克人 , いしい かつひとCast credits
Crew credits
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Director, ScreenplayParty 7
Director, WriterShark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
Director, Writer, EditorThe Taste of Tea
Writer, Director, EditorRedline
Writer, Background DesignerSmuggler
Director, ScreenplayMy Darling of the Mountains
Director, EditorFrog River
StoryHello! Junichi
DirectorKill Bill: Vol. 1
Animation DirectorGamera
DirectorTales of the Bizarre: SMAP Special
Screenplay, DirectorGAMBO
Creative Director, Story, ScreenplayTales of the Bizarre: 2013 Autumn Special
DirectorSMAP Short Films
DirectorPromise of August
Director, WriterNorioka Workshop
Director, Writer