Shozin Fukui

nihongo|Shozin Fukui|福居ショウジン|Fukui Shōjin is a Japanese movie director and screenwriter. According to the IMDB, he has produced two experimental shorts (Gerorisuto, and Caterpillar) and two full length movies (964 Pinocchio, and Rubber's Lover). [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0298006/] These four movies are widely available, having been reissued on DVD by Unearthed Films. According to other sources, he has released three more movies since then (Onne, Den-Sen, and The Hiding) [http://www.nipponcinema.com/news/cyberpunk_icon_shozin_fukui_returns_with_the_hiding/] These three are almost completely unknown outside of Japan.

964 Pinocchio and Rubber's Lover are considered important, core films of the Japanese Cyberpunk genre. [http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/japanese-cyberpunk/]

964 Pinocchio is often compared to Shinya Tsukamoto's cyberpunk classic [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/313787/Pinocchio-964/overview] and it is worth noting that Fukui worked on the crew for Tetsuo. [Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man. The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Page 226. FAB Press. ISBN 1903254361] Many fans consider Fukui's aesthetic to be sufficiently divergentfrom Tsukamoto's for his films to stand on their own, even consideringthe extremely deep similarities.

Filmography

*"Gerorisuto" (1987/8)
*"Caterpillar" (1990)
*"964 Pinocchio" (1991)
*"Rubber's Lover" (1996)
*"Onne" (2006)
*"Den-Sen" (2006)
*"The Hiding" (2008)

References

External links

* [http://fukui-shozin.com/ Shozin Fukui's web site]