Directing

Kazuhiko Ishida

Born August 1, 1953 (age 73)

No biography available.

Known For

Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til ClimaxTime Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax · 1986
Time Adventure: 5 Seconds Til Climax
★ 6.21986
MovieComedyScience Fiction
A young woman who is prone to romantic dreams involving her supervisor time-travels from 1986 to 2001 and becomes involved with a private investigator who is working on a divorce case and is having his own marital difficulties.
Snake and WhipSnake and Whip · 1986
Snake and Whip
★ 5.41986
MovieDramaHorror
A young woman gets a new job as an executive secretary. Her boss discovers that she resembles her late mother who he desired but lost to another man. Seeing his chance for revenge the boss and his sadistic circle of friends make plans to turn her into his personal sex slave.
Elder Sister's DiaryElder Sister's Diary · 1984
Elder Sister's Diary
★ 4.31984
MovieDrama
Hayashi Taro is still a high school student, but lives in Tokyo with Yuko, who works at a no-pan coffee shop. Shigeya Yoshida, an architectural designer in Yokohama, likes June and goes to hotels. Yoshida's wife, Hideyo, notices the existence of June and is very jealous. In addition, Hideyo had a younger brother named Kiyoshi, who had feelings similar to love for his sister. When June and Shigeya were dating Shonan at night, Hayashi Taro attacked Shigeya....
Stay GoldStay Gold · 1988
Stay Gold
1988
MovieDramaAdventure
Three girls go on a trip after a friend commits suicide and learn about friendship.
Alone in the NightAlone in the Night · 1994
Alone in the Night
★ 5.91994
MovieDramaCrime
An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartment and rape his wife, Nami, while looking for the drugs they claim he stole from them. Afterwards Nami attempts to commit suicide, but after being rescued by a mysterious yakuza she decides to infiltrate the gang and get revenge.
Samurai Hustle ReturnsSamurai Hustle Returns · 2016
Samurai Hustle Returns
★ 6.62016
MovieComedy
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in his hometown of Yunagaya. Masaatsu Naito knows that it is a counterattack by Matsudaira. He returns to Yunagaya, but finds that his castle is gone.
Orgasm: MarikoOrgasm: Mariko · 1985
Orgasm: Mariko
★ 6.11985
MovieDramaHorror
Under a full moon near a highway bridge a woman has sex with her boyfriend during her period. Unfortunately the boyfriend is accidentally killed by a flying pop bottle from a passing delivery truck. This triggers a story of bloody revenge.
Ame no etranger
Dec 4, 2026
Ame no etranger · 2026
Ame no etranger
2026
MovieDrama

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Samurai HustleSamurai Hustle · 2014
Samurai Hustle
★ 7.02014
MovieHistoryComedy
During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of Yunagaya Domain receives an order to perform Sankin-kotai within 5 days. Sankin-kotai is a custom that requires the daimyo to visit the shogun in Edo. Unfortunately, the time needed to visit the shogun in Edo for Masaatsu Naito is 8 days. Masaatsu Naito also learns he received the order because a high ranking government official wants the gold mine. Also, the expense for Sankin-kotai is high and the Yunagaya Domain is such a small han that it seems impossible to complete. Nevertheless, Masaatsu Naito begins an unexpected operation to complete Sankin-kotai in 5 days.

Assistant Director

One Bowl of KakesobaOne Bowl of Kakesoba · 1992
One Bowl of Kakesoba
★ 8.01992
MovieDrama
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...

Assistant Director

Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's StorySummer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story · 2015
Summer on the Frontline: A Boy's Story
★ 5.02015
MovieDrama
Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a result of the Great East Japan Earthquake.In 2012, he belongs to a broadcasting club of his junior-high, to which he has to be admitted for the earthquake. He spends time with some fellows of a club. But all equipment to make their works of it has been washed away by the tsunami. He decides to give up his filmmaking in this summer, which will be the last time of his junior-high days to make a work.But one day a man who lives in a small village in Heilongjiang, China donates the equipment for filmmaking to Keisuke's school. Also Keisuke, his fellows and his teacher have been invited by him to shoot a film in China. And they are travelling to shoot around the boundless Chinese land.

First Assistant Director