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name: "Toshihiro Isomi"
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imdb_id: "nm0411404"
tmdb_id: 20703
wikidata_id: "Q11588032"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "1 February 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
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licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Toshihiro Isomi

## Identity

Toshihiro Isomi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/toshihiro-isomi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** toshihiro-isomi
- **IMDb ID:** nm0411404
- **TMDB ID:** 20703
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11588032
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11588032, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411404/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20703

Production designer. Born 1 February 1957 in Daito, Osaka, Japan.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 1 February 1957, Daito, Osaka, Japan
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11588032, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411404/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20703

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Nobody Knows*](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Toshihiro Isomi is a Japanese production designer, art director and film producer. He was born on 1 February 1957 in Daito, Osaka. He graduated from Ritsumeikan University College of Social Sciences and worked in fashion and publishing before entering film design through theatre connections in the 1990s.

Isomi has frequently collaborated with director Hirokazu Kore-eda, serving as production designer on *After Life* (1998) and *Nobody Knows* (2004), and as art director on *Still Walking* (2008). His other credits include production design on *Prisoners of the Ghostland* (2021), *Like Someone in Love* (2012) and *Tokyo!* (2008), and art direction on *Battle Royale II: Requiem* (2003). He has received two wins and five nominations for his work. Since 2008 he has been a professor at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts.

*Sources: imdb.com, mydramalist.com, shotonwhat.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Fi1m 87, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)

## Complete filmography (88)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Brightest Sun* (2026), Production Design
- *Golden Kamuy -The Abashiri Prison Raid-* (2026), Production Design
- *Golden Kamuy* (2024), Production Design
- *Breakfast of the Movie* (2023), Actor
- *Fragments of the Last Will* (2022), Production Design
- *I Am Makimoto* (2022), Production Design
- *Tonbi* (2022), Production Design
- *What to Do With the Dead Kaiju?* (2022), Production Design
- *Prisoners of the Ghostland* (2021), Production Design
- *Tezuka's Barbara* (2020), Production Design
- *The Voice of Sin* (2020), Production Design
- *The Promised Land* (2019), Production Design
- *BOLT* (2019), Production Design
- *The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps* (2018), as Art Direction
- *Stolen Identity* (2018), as Art Direction
- *LOUDER! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!* (2018), Production Design
- *Yakiniku Dragon* (2018), as Art Direction
- *My Friend "A"* (2018), as Art Direction
- *Museum* (2016), Production Design
- *64: Part 2* (2016), Production Design
- *64: Part 1* (2016), Production Design
- *Gassoh* (2015), as Art Direction
- *Strayer's Chronicle* (2015), as Art Direction
- *Shinjuku Swan* (2015), Production Design
- *A Sinner's Lie* (2014), series, Production Design
- *The World of Kanako* (2014), as Art Direction
- *It's Me It's Me* (2013), Production Design, Art Direction
- *The War and a Woman* (2013), Production Design
- *My Departure* (2012), as Art Direction
- *Like Someone in Love* (2012), Production Design
- *Cut* (2011), Production Designer, Production Design
- *Life Back Then* (2011), Production Design
- *Ekeb of Dekye* (2010), Production Design
- *The Seaside Motel* (2010), Production Design
- *Railways* (2010), as Art Direction
- *Golden Slumber* (2010), Production Design
- *Kanikôsen* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Raise the Castle!* (2009), Production Design
- *Instant Swamp* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Counterfeit* (2009), Production Design
- *School Days with a Pig* (2008), Production Design
- *Tokyo!* (2008), Production Design
- *Still Walking* (2008), as Art Direction
- *All Around Us* (2008), as Art Direction
- *Adrift in Tokyo* (2007), Production Design
- *The Mourning Forest* (2007), Production Design
- *The Battery* (2007), as Art Direction
- *Hana* (2006), Production Design
- *Shinobi: Heart Under Blade* (2005), Production Design
- *Chicken Is Barefoot* (2004), Production Design
- *Blood and Bones* (2004), Production Design
- *Black Kiss* (2004), as Art Direction
- *Nobody Knows* (2004), Production Design — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/nobody-knows.md)
- *Antenna* (2004), as Art Direction
- *My Easygoing Sister* (2004), Producer
- *Worst by Chance* (2003), Production Design
- *Wild Berries* (2003), Production Design
- *Battle Royale II: Requiem* (2003), as Art Direction
- *A Boy's Summer in 1945* (2002), Production Design
- *Nezulla the Rat Monster* (2002), Production Design
- *Doing Time* (2002), as Art Direction
- *Harmful Insect* (2002), Production Design
- *Tampen* (2001), Producer
- *Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle* (2001), as Art Direction
- *Distance* (2001), as Art Direction
- *Electric Dragon 80000V* (2001), as Art Direction
- *Home Sweet Home* (2000), Production Design
- *Rendezvous* (2000), Producer
- *Hakuchi: The Innocent* (1999), as Art Direction
- *Don't Look Back* (1999), Production Design
- *The Pig's Retribution* (1999), as Art Direction
- *After Life* (1999), Production Design
- *NARAKUE* (1997), Production Design
- *Junk Food* (1997), Producer
- *Ringo no usagi* (1997), Production Design
- *Isana no umi* (1997), Production Design
- *2/Duo* (1997), as Art Direction
- *The Human Chair* (1997), Production Design
- *Labyrinth of Dreams* (1997), Production Design
- *Helpless* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Yûri* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Jinrai: The Boss's Ransom* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Gamble* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Loot* (1996), as Art Direction
- *Lonely Planet* (1996), Production Design
- *NUMANITE* (1995), Production Design
- *BeRLiN* (1995), as Art Direction
- *This Window Is Yours* (1993), as Art Direction

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