Takashi Ito Movies

Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace...

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to...

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

"With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making GHOST of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, floating the...

A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways. Designs drawn...

Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

A test work for SPACY. I had a mad interest in the kind of sensation of visual movement gained from subsequent rushings into the mise-en-abyme space...

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

A film of the interactive video installation and performance art Double/Bunshin that Ito did in collaboration with Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada in...

"In the early afternoon, a mother holding her child stands still in the park of a housing project. The kind of sight that is a symbol of beauty and...

"The further developed and completed version of a 15-second advertisement for an interior design firm on which I had worked. It repeats over and over...

"His films are like a roller-coaster. His way of throwing the act of seeing into utter confusion is an attack on the eyes in their corporeal...

"Three Women, is an ambitious work designed to be shown on multiple screens in a movie theater. Moving a step forward from the use of multiple...

8mm short film.

8mm short film, presumably an expansion of Drill.

Made when I was simply beside myself with excitement from seeing Toshio Matsumoto's ATMAN. I placed photographs of Noh masks in a variety of...

Fragmentary stories of two students with a video camera and an old butoh dancer who finds himself followed by a woman are interwoven.