Kazuchika Kise
Film director · 3 films (2013–2015)
Kazuchika Kise is a director whose work here spans Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013) to Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015), across animation and science fiction. 3 of those films were photographed by Koji Tanaka. All 349 frames from 3 films are indexed here, searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, colour and mood.
Kazuchika Kise is an animator, animation director, and director from Osaka, Japan. He works for the animation studio Production I.G.
Born 6 March 1965 · Osaka, Japan
Directing style
Kise establishes a tense, ominous atmosphere by setting his scenes primarily within night-time interiors, relying on a cool, desaturated color grade dominated by deep slate blues, metallic grays, and toxic greens. He favors eye-level medium shots that maintain a neutral, observational perspective, balanced by a near-even split between shallow focus to isolate subjects and deep focus to preserve environmental detail. Lighting is driven by diegetic sources, casting characters in the cold illumination of computer screens, windows, and practical fixtures to emphasize the sterile, high-tech environments of the crime and science fiction genres.
Films directed by Kazuchika Kise
About Kazuchika Kise
When was Kazuchika Kise born?
Kazuchika Kise was born on 6 March 1965 in Osaka, Japan.
What films has Kazuchika Kise directed?
FrameThrower holds stills from 3 of them: Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 1: Ghost Pain (2013), Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 3: Ghost Tears (2014) and Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015).
Search every frame of Kazuchika Kise’s films
All 349 indexed frames from 3 films directed by Kazuchika Kise — searchable by lighting, lens, shot size, mood or plain language.