Gakuryu ISHII 石井岳龍

Isn't Anyone Alive?

生きてるものはいないのか

Nippon Cinema   ª 

In this film, set on a university campus with an adjacent hospital, cult director ISHII confronts a group of people, going about their everyday lives, with the sudden end of the world, adapting a play by Shiro MAEDA. The result is a farcical ensemble comedy deftly mixing absurd humour with philosophical questions about life and death.

生きてるものはいないのか
Ikiteru mono wa inainoka

Japan 2011

113 minutes

Director
Gakuryu ISHII

Script
Shiro MAEDA based on a play by Shiro MAEDA

Cinematography
Yoshiyuki MATSUMOTO

About Gakuryu ISHII
石井岳龍

Gakuryu (Sogo) ISHII was born in Fukuoka in 1957. His dystopian punk rock musical BURST CITY (1982) made him one of the precursors of the Japanese cyberpunk movement of the 1980s. Since then he has worked with renowned Japanese actors and international punk bands on numerous short and feature films. NIPPON CONNECTION dedicated a retrospective to his work in 2013.