Issey Takahashi
13 titles
Filmography
13 results

Meatball Machine
(2006)When alien parasites take control of human beings and change them into repulsive monsters, a dizzying, full-splatter, cyberpunk battle begins.

Rohan at the Louvre
(2023)Rohan Kishibe is a mangaka who can read people like a book. At work on a new creation, Rohan recalls a tale of the blackest painting ever made. Called the most evil of paintings, it used a paint that should not exist. Driven by the events linked to it, Rohan and his editor, Izumi, go to the Louvre in France for answers.©2023 "Rohan at the Louvre" Film Partners ©LUCKY LAND COMMUNICATIONS/SHUEISHA

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan
"Heaven's Door!" – with these words, manga artist Kishibe Rohan turns people into “books” to learn their secrets and write in additional instructions. Rohan must summon all his powers to face down the peculiar incidents that come his way. Based on the popular spinoff of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Araki Hirohiko.©LUCKY LAND COMMUNICATIONS / SHUEISHA ©NHK / P.I.C.S.

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan: At a Confessional
(2025)Manga artist Rohan Kishibe visits a church in Venice and hears a masked man confess that he accidentally killed a vagrant and was cast a curse that brings him despair when he is most happy. Rohan becomes engrossed in this mysterious confession and uses his special ability to turn people into books and read their memories and experiences… Eventually, he finds that he is under the same curse.

Whisper of the Heart
(1995)After learning that all her library books were previously borrowed by the same person, schoolgirl Shizuku sets out to meet him and follow her dreams.

Wife of a Spy
(2020)Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, Kill Bill) senses that things are headed in an unsettling direction. Following a trip to Manchuria, he becomes determined to bring to light the things he witnessed there, and secretly filmed. Meanwhile, his wife Satoko (Japan Society’s 2021 Honoree Yû Aoi) receives a visit from her childhood friend, now a military policeman. He warns her about Yusaku’s seditious ways and reveals that a woman her husband brought back from his trip has died. Satoko confronts Yusaku, but when she discovers his true intentions, she is torn between loyalty to her husband, the life they have built, and the country they call home.

Romance Doll
(2020)Tetsuo is keeping a secret from his wife, Sonoko. The secret? He makes sex dolls. Meanwhile, his relationship with Sonoko becomes sexless.

Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange
When her soul is mysteriously switched with that of a psychopathic serial killer, an ambitious Tokyo detective watches her fate take a turn.

Invisible
A detective obsessed with justice receives a surprising offer of help from a mysterious figure in the criminal underworld known as "Invisible."

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
(2021)Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets the gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, his story begins to change.

Quartet
After a chance encounter, four musicians decide to form a quartet and spend the winter sharing a cozy villa in Karuizawa — but a secret hangs over them.

All About Lily Chou-Chou
(2001)The problematic lives of teenager students for whom the singer Lily Chou-Chou's dreamy music is the only way to escape an alienating, violent and insensitive society.

Shin Godzilla
(2016)Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. A horrific creature of tremendous size lands in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. As the government assembles a motley task force, an American envoy delivers a top-secret folder bearing the name: GODZILLA. From directors Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, Shin Godzilla offers a thrilling origin story to one of cinema's greatest creations.