Akio Jissoji
Directing · Director · Script Supervisor · Supervising Producer
Born Mar 29, 1937 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Active 1966–2006
Akio Jissoji was a Japanese television and film director best known outside Japan for the 1960s TV series Ultraman and Ultra Seven, as well as for his auteur erotic ATG-produced Buddhist trilogy Mujō (無常), Mandala (曼陀羅), and Uta (哥).
Filmography
Ultraman Tiga (1996) — DirectorUltraseven (1967) — Director · WriterUltraman (1966) — DirectorThis Transient Life (1970) — DirectorReturn of Ultraman (1971) — WriterUltraman Max (2005) — DirectorUltraman Dyna (1997) — DirectorUltra Q: Dark Fantasy (2004) — DirectorSilver Kamen (1971) — Director · CreatorThe Men Who Made Ultraman (1989) — Script Supervisor · StoryAkio Jissoji's Ultraman (1979) — DirectorPoem (1972) — DirectorSummer of Ubume (2005) — DirectorUltra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars (1990) — DirectorOperation: Mystery (1968) — DirectorTokyo: The Last Megalopolis (1988) — Director · ProducerRampo Noir (2005) — DirectorMandala (1971) — DirectorTen Nights of Dreams (2007) — DirectorMurder on D Street (1998) — DirectorKaiki Daisakusen - Second File (2007) — WriterWhen Twilight Draws Near (1969) — DirectorBlue Lake Girl (1986) — DirectorIt Was a Faint Dream (1974) — Director