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...

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...

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

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Three cat burgling sisters have to go up against the police and a Chinese crime syndicate in order to rescue their kidnapped father.

"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...

Three high school students are running through their adolescence, feeling frustrated and empty at the reality of being 18 years old. The film depicts...

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

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

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...

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...

"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...

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

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

A film of the interactive video installation and performance art Double/Bunshin that Ito did in collaboration with Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada in...

"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...

"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 test work for SPACY. I had a mad interest in the kind of sensation of visual movement gained from subsequent rushings into the mise-en-abyme space...

8mm short film, presumably an expansion of Drill.

“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...