Shozin Fukui
Shozin Fukui | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 Japan |
| Occupation(s) | film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1984-present |
| Movement | Japanese Cyberpunk |
Shozin Fukui (福居ショウジン, Fukui Shōjin) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has produced three experimental shorts (Metal Days, Gerorisuto, and Caterpillar) and two full-length films (964 Pinocchio, and Rubber's Lover). These movies (excluding Metal Days) were widely available, having been issued on DVD by Unearthed Films. However, these releases have since gone out of print. He has released four more films since then (Onne, Den-Sen, The Hiding and 『S-94』).[1][2] These are almost completely unknown outside Japan.
964 Pinocchio and Rubber's Lover are considered important, core films of the Japanese cyberpunk genre.[3]
964 Pinocchio is often compared to Shinya Tsukamoto's cyberpunk classic Tetsuo: The Iron Man;[4] Fukui worked on the crew for Tetsuo.[5] Many fans and critics consider Fukui's aesthetic to be sufficiently divergent from Tsukamoto's for his films to stand on their own, even considering the extremely deep similarities.[6]
Filmography
- Metal Days (1986)
- Gerorisuto (1986)
- Caterpillar (1988)
- 964 Pinocchio (1991)
- Rubber's Lover (1996)
- Onne (2006)
- Den-Sen (2006)
- Derenai (2007) Director's Cut of Onne
- The Hiding (2008)
- S-94 (2009)
References
- ^ "Cyberpunk icon Shozin Fukui returns with 'The Hiding'". Nipponcinema.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "Shozin Fukui director profile". Subtitledonline.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ "Extreme Japanese Cyberpunk". Archived from the original on 1 September 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
- ^ Jason Buchanan (2011). "Pinocchio 964 (1992)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ^ Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man. The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Page 226. FAB Press. ISBN 1-903254-36-1
- ^ Player, Mark. "Post-Human Nightmares: The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema". Midnighteye.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.