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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Ishii Yuya

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Ishii Yuya at IFFR

  • Girl Sparks

    It soon becomes apparent that Saeko is not just an ordinary schoolgirl. And equally soon it’s apparent this isn’t an ordinary film. It

  • Of Monster Mode

    The film maker Ishii doesn’t need anything other than a Martian costume to turn a realistic housewives’ drama into an absurd comedy. In

  • Rebel, Jiro’s Love

    Jiro thinks he’s the ugliest young man there is and maybe he’s right. Yet something sweet blossoms with the factory girl Rinko. For tho

  • Bare-assed Japan

    A laconic film about touching losers, maybe with just a little perverse pleasure. The son decides to leave home and live in the countryside. His gi

  • The Great Passage

    A young Japanese filmmaker here speaks the language of great classic cinematography, with the contemporary element hidden in the details. The film

  • Ishii Yuya Short Film Collection

    A filmmaker who shoots three to four feature films per year before leaving school probably does not need to make a short. He sees that entirely dif

  • To Walk Beside You

    In 2008, this festival showed the first four features by Ishii Yuya. He is back with an absurdist tragicomedy. Just like his parents, 17-year-old N