
Shozin Fukui
Directing
Biography
Shozin Fukui was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He has produced two experimental shorts (Gerorisuto, and Caterpillar) and two full-length films (964 Pinocchio, and Rubber's Lover). These four movies 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. These are almost completely unknown outside Japan.
Known For

A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man

A memory-wiped and defective cyborg sex slave is tossed onto the streets and taken in by a homeless woman while his corporate creators hunt him down.
964 Pinocchio

After the explosive demise of their last subject, scientists must look for a replacement on whom to continue their bizarre experiments with brain-altering drugs.
Rubber's Lover
In 2010, the virus S-94 wiped out almost all of humanity. Only two women survive the pandemic and now lives isolated together. One of them desperately want to survive while the other is suicidal. The balance they have managed to maintain destroyed when a third survivor appears (whose existence they discovered through a radio broadcast) and will soon begin fighting over him, despite an otherwise hopeless future.
S-94

A young woman on the Tokyo subway who may be possessed.
Gerorist

The Chosen One of the 21st Century, Cosplay Talent: Koe-chan. She takes on the challenge of body painting, using her own body as a canvas! Legendary artists such as Shirow Kasuma, Kei Koneto, Henmaru Machino, and Makoto Aida, who represent contemporary art, express themselves through her body. This is an aesthetics of chaos and serenity.
The Art Idol Koe-chan's Challenge! Transformation Land

A trio of journalists receive a mysterious DVD from an unknown source. The young woman journalist decides to watch the DVD and disappears. Her two friends begin an investigation into her disappearance that turns up a video she shot while watching the DVD they received in the mail. Upon viewing it appears she was not alone in her apartment. Who is the mystery woman seen only in a reflection and what caused the young lady to commit suicide?
Suicide DVD

A half-hour experimental film that shows Fukui moving towards cyberpunk imagery in a manner similar to Tsukamoto, featuring industrial locations, a malfunctioning cyborg/android and a hulking metallic ‘caterpillar’ that stalks characters.
Caterpillar

A recluse meets another recluse online when he's victim to a gas attack.
Onne
Early 8mm short film.
Chaser of the Ranger

Strange and violent things start to happen when a reclusive woman is held captive in her own home.
The Hiding

Paranormal documentary featuring idol Kayoko Chiba.
C-Files: The Truth of 1999

A group of punks steal weapons from a military base.
Metal Days
A man randomly stabs a stranger.