LaSalle Ishii Movies

Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.

A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to...

Remake of Kurosawa Akira‘s Ikiru

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Japanese comedy film.

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

This is a human drama written by Keralino Sandorovich showcasing people fascinated with and obsessed with laughter in Shinjuku in the mid-1950s.

Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji"....

Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On...

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than...

A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese...

Kankichi Ryotsu is sulking after his bonus was snatched away by the members of the shopping district. On TV, they hear that Princess Sabrina of the...

Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings...

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...

The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a...

After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. ...

In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe....