Akio Jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japan s film and television industries. For some, he is best-known for his science-fiction: the 1960s TV series Ultraman ...

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TOKYO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Akio Jissoji, a Japanese special-effects director responsible for two popular 1960s TV series, has died at 69. Jissoji suffered from stomach cancer, a family friend told Kyodo ...

Akio Jissoji, a helmer best known abroad for his work on the “Ultraman” sci-fi series, but wildly eclectic in his directing career, died November 29 in Tokyo of stomach cancer. He was 69. While ...

TOKYO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Director Akio Jissoji, who once headed up production of the Japanese TV series "Ultraman," has succumbed to stomach cancer at the age of 69. Jissoji, who directed the popular ...

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 ...

Akio Jissôji 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 ...

Masahiro Kobayashi's The Rebirth (Ai No Yokan) became the first Japanese film to receive the Golden Leopard since Akio Jissoji's The Transient Life (Mujo) was an ex aequo winner at the festival in ...

Miyake is the fourth Japanese winner of the top prize in the festival’s history after Masahiro Kobayashi’s The Rebirth (Ai no yokan) in 2007, Akio Jissoji’s This Transient Life (Mujō), which was one ...