Sushi Typhoon is a Japanese genre film production company founded in 2010 and currently owned by media conglomerate

Media conglomerate

A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet...

 Nikkatsu Corporation, Japan's oldest existing film studio.

History

Sushi Typhoon was founded in 2010 as a subsidiary of Nikkatsu, with the intent to create low-budget horror, science fiction, and fantasy films aimed at an international audience. Zeiram

Zeiram

also known as Zeram, is a 1991 Japanese live-action movie in which the bounty hunter from another planet named Iria comes to Earth to do battle with Zeiram, an immortal alien creature with a strangely shaped head which resembles a wide-brimmed hat...

producer Yoshinori Chiba is credited as Sushi Typhoon's creator and oversees the company's full production schedule. Since its inception, the company has produced seven feature films.

Staff

The core Sushi Typhoon staff consists of producer Chiba; directors Takashi Miike

Takashi Miike

is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions...

 (noted in the company's production trailer as it's "head chef"), Yoshihiro Nishimura

Yoshihiro Nishimura

is a Japanese film director, special effects and makeup effects artist, and a screenwriter who has worked predominantly in the horror genre. Nishimura has been described as "a legendary director and effects artist" and "the Tom Savini of Japan" with "talent to burn"...

, Sion Sono

Sion Sono

is a controversial Japanese filmmaker and poet. He was born in Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan, and is best known for his films as well as avant-garde poetry performances.-Early career:...

, Noboru Iguchi

Noboru Iguchi

is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. He has worked as a director in adult video as well as in the horror and gore genres.-Life and career:Iguchi was born on June 28, 1969...

, Tak Sakaguchi

Tak Sakaguchi

is a Japanese actor, director, fight choreorapher, and stuntman. He is best known for his lead role in Ryuhei Kitamura's cult film, Versus. Sakaguchi is a talented martial artist, and as such, stars in films featuring copious fight scenes and performs all of his own stunts. He is known to be...

, Yudai Yamaguchi

Yūdai Yamaguchi

is a Japanese film director who has worked mainly in the comedy and horror genres. He has "made a name for himself by mixing goofy gore with manga-esque escapades and plain utter weirdness".-Life and career:...

, and Seiji Chiba

Seiji Chiba

is a Japanese film director and producer.-Career:He moved to the United State in 1990 and studied various aspects of filmmaking at Los Angeles City College, ranging from directing, and screenwriting to editing. After graduating from LACC, he returned to Japan and directed/produced a self-financed...

; action director Yuji Shimomura; visual effects supervisor Tsuyoshi Kazuno; and art director Yoshiki Takahashi

Yoshiki Takahashi

Yoshiki Takahashi may refer to:* Yoshiki Takahashi * Kazuo Takahashi, mixed martial artist who is billed as Yoshiki Takahashi for ring purposes...

. New York Asian Film Festival

New York Asian Film Festival

The New York Asian Film Festival was first held in 2002, growing out of the previous year's New York Korean Film Festival...

 co-director Marc Walkow heads Sushi Typhoon's American division and international festival bookings.

Films

As of 2011, Sushi Typhoon has produced the following feature films:

• Alien vs Ninja (2010)
• Mutant Girls Squad
  Mutant Girls Squad
  is a Japanese film by Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura and Tak Sakaguchi. The film is about Rin, a sixteen-year-old mutant girl who meets a gang of rebel mutants who aim to take revenge on humans for persecuting their race...
  
  (2010)
• Cold Fish
  Cold Fish
  is a 2010 Japanese serial killer film directed by Sion Sono. The film is about a quiet and unambitious owner of a tropical fish shop who's life and family are taken over by a fellow fish entrepreneur who happens to be a serial killer...
  
  (2011)
• Deadball
  Deadball
  is a 2011 Japanese splatter comedy film directed by Yudai Yamaguchi. The film stars Tak Sakaguchi as Jubeh Yakyu, a seventeen year old who accidentally kills his father with his extra powerful baseball arm. Years later, he is a juvenile delinquent and is sent to a reform school after killing over...
  
  (2011)
• Helldriver
  Helldriver
  is a 2010 Japanese splatter film directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura. It stars Yumiko Hara and Eihi Shiina, and was written by Nishimura and Daichi Nagisa.-Plot:...
  
  (2011)
• Karate-Robo Zaborgar
  Karate-Robo Zaborgar
  Karate-Robo Zaborgar, also called is a 2011 Japanese film directed by Noboru Iguchi. The film is based on an 1970's show Denjin Zaborger.-Plot:...
  
  (2011)
• Yakuza Weapon
  Yakuza Weapon
  is a 2011 Japanese film directed and written by Tak Sakaguchi and Yūdai Yamaguchi. Based on the manga by Ken Ishikawa, the film is about Shozo Iwaki who works as a mercenary in South America. Iwaki is informed of the death of his gang boss dad and discovers his former Yakuza henchman is involved...
  
  (2011)