Katsuhito Ishii

Katsuhito Ishii is a Japanese film director After graduating from Musashino Art University Katsuhito Ishii got a job at Tohokushinsha Film and began directing commercials in 1992 receiving numerous awards in this field His first short film The Promise of August shot in 1995 went on to receive the Japanese Film Grand Prix in the Fantastic Video Section of the 1995 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival He made his feature debut with Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl based on the visual novel by cult manga artist Minetaro Mochizuki and starring regular collaborator Tadanobu Asano Ishii quickly followed his success with another box office hit Party 7 2000 which featured Masatoshi Nagase Yoshio Harada and Tadanobu Asano among others Between the years 2001 and 2002 he created a series of short films including the 3D animated dialogue piece Hal Bons and the 2D animated space opera Trava Fist Planet Among other commercials and select TV projects including the short Black Room which starred Takuya Kimura and Music Power Go Go He collaborated with Production IG for the animation sequence of Quentin Tarantinos Kill Bill Volume 1 In 2004 his fourth feature film The Taste of Tea won Best Feature Film at the Hawaii International Film Festival In 2006 he codirected the feature film Funky Forest with fellow Japanese film makers and old school friends Shunichiro Miki and ANIKI He founded his own production company Nice Rainbow in October 2006