Shozin Fukui

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.

Shozin Fukui
Born1961
Japan
Occupation(s)film director, screenwriter
Years active1984-present
MovementJapanese Cyberpunk

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

References
  1. "Cyberpunk icon Shozin Fukui returns with 'The Hiding'". Nipponcinema.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  2. "Shozin Fukui director profile". Subtitledonline.com. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  3. "Extreme Japanese Cyberpunk". Archived from the original on 1 September 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  4. 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.
  5. Mes, Tom (2005). Iron Man. The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto. Page 226. FAB Press. ISBN 1-903254-36-1
  6. Player, Mark. "Post-Human Nightmares: The World of Japanese Cyberpunk Cinema". Midnighteye.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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