Year: 2003
Duration: 60'
This film is composed of three short films, linked by
savage chases. In the first episode, Last Song, a man runs down an
alley, chased by a female robot who loves Broadway musicals. In the
second episode, Shadows, the chase involves a person who is taken into
the alley by a killer, who leaves him no hope for survival. In the
third, Fly, a man, who is running from the police, ends up on a rooftop,
where he kidnaps a girl who wants to commit suicide.
"In the beginning I wanted to make three short films to experiment the
technical capabilities of a new digital camera. I had a very low budget,
but I managed to stretch it. In fact, thanks to my bad habits, I begged
everybody to work on Dead End Run as though it were a full-length film,
to make it a true film. Shooting lasted ten days and we followed the
conditions we had been set: make three interactive films with two
characters at the most and limit the sets. Digital special effects were
created with the personal computers of a few members of the troupe." (I.
Sogo)
Biography
film director
Sogo Ishii
Ishii Sogo (Fukuoka, 1957) directed his first 8mm feature film when he was twenty-one. Nikkatsu bought the rights to it, but kept its 35mm remake out of distribution. Ishii continued his career as an independent action-film director who often attracted the attention of the large Japanese movie studios. In 1985 he made Gyakufunsha kazoku, which won first prize at the Salsomaggiore Film Festival and was distributed in numerous European countries. His latest film will be based on a Abe Kobo novel.Koukou dai panic (Panic in High School, 8mm, 1978), Kuruizaki Thunder Road (Crazy Thunder Road, 1980), Shuffle (cm, 1981), Bakuretsu Toshi (Burst City, 1982), Gyafukunsha kazoku (Crazy Family, 1984), 1/2 Mensch (Half Man-Neubauten, mm, 1986), Shiatsu Ohja (The Master of Shiatsu, cm, 1989), Angel Dust (1994), Mizunonaka no hachigatsu (August in the Water, 1995), Yumeno ginga (1997).