Takashi Ito Movies

  • 2014
    Last Angel

    Last Angel

    Last Angel

    02014HD

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

    Last Angel
  • 1983
    Drill

    Drill

    Drill

    5.8331983HD

    "The filming of the entrance to the company dormitory in which the film-maker was living. Centering the film on one pillar, he warps the spaces to...

    Drill
  • 1987
    Wall

    Wall

    Wall

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    "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...

    Wall
  • 2006
    Unbalance

    Unbalance

    Unbalance

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    “I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the...

    Unbalance
  • 2021
    Toward Zero

    Toward Zero

    Toward Zero

    02021HD

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

    Toward Zero
  • 1977
    Noh

    Noh

    Noh

    01977HD

    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...

    Noh
  • 1990
    Ghost

    Ghost

    Ghost

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

    Ghost
  • 1985
    Grim

    Grim

    Grim

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    "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...

    Grim
  • 1982
    Box

    Box

    Box

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    "I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only...

    Box
  • 1982
    Thunder

    Thunder

    Thunder

    6.5571982HD

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

    Thunder
  • 1994
    The Moon

    The Moon

    The Moon

    6.21994HD

    "A long time ago, I would often dream of the uncanny and mystical landscape that appears in moonlight. Irrational landscapes and spaces filled with...

    The Moon
  • 1987
    Photodiary '87

    Photodiary '87

    Photodiary '87

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    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...

    Photodiary '87
  • 1985
    Drill 2

    Drill 2

    Drill 2

    01985HD

    8mm short film, presumably an expansion of Drill.

    Drill 2
  • 1995
    Zone

    Zone

    Zone

    6.31995HD

    This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is still without even a shudder in a white room. A...

    Zone
  • 1983
    Face

    Face

    Face

    01983HD

    8mm short film.

    Face
  • 1993
    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek

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    "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...

    December Hide-and-Go-Seek
  • 1982
    Screw

    Screw

    Screw

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

    Screw
  • 2024
    Distant Voices

    Distant Voices

    Distant Voices

    02024HD

    A field of wilted sunflowers, a group of public housing units turned into ruins. Two girls who are like alter egos of each other. They wander around...

    Distant Voices
  • 1981
    Spacy

    Spacy

    Spacy

    6.31981HD

    "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...

    Spacy
  • 1978
    Movement

    Movement

    Movement

    01978HD

    Early 8mm short film, first of three works in the Movement series.

    Movement