Takashi Ito Movies

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.

Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man...

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...

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

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was...

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which...

"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...

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.

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983...

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

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

Without warning, the image of a girl wildly waving a baseball bat that slices through the air leaps to my mind. Such speed also reminds me of the...

The film follows the common sense storytelling of a dramatic film in which people meet other people and create relationships, but instead of...

A video installation that Takashi Ito exhibited in January 2009 in Kyoto.

"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...

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

In the final scene of my last work, A SILENT DAY, a girl was filming herself with an 8mm camera on a railway bridge. Although the film doesn’t...