Directed by Takashi Miike Written by Shigenori Takechi   Cast Kazuya Nakayama ... Okada Izo Kaori Momoi ... Saya Ryûhei Matsuda ... His Highness (as Ryuuhei Matsuda) Ryôsuke Miki ... Hanpeita Yûya Uchida ... Second Man Masumi Okada ... Chief of the Palace Hiroki Matsukata ... Yakuza Boss Hiroshi Katsuno   Masato ... Ronin Bob Sapp   Takeshi Kitano ... Chancellor (as 'Bîto' Takeshi) Daijirô Harada   Taisaku Akino   Chisato Amate   Takeshi Caesar   Joe Cappelletti ... Hanpeita (voice) Mickey Curtis ... (as Mikkî Kâchisu) Ken'ichi Endô ... Spearman torturing the crucified Izo (as Ken'ichi Endou) Michael Forest ... Samurai (voice) (as Alfred Thor) Jessica Gee-George ... Izo's Mother (voice) Ryûji Harada   Yoshio Harada   Kate Higgins ... Teacher (voice) (as Kate Davis) Megan Hollingshead ... Saya (voice) (as Karen Thompson) Renji Ishibashi   Yûdai Ishiyama   Tsurutarô Kataoka ... Warlord Kirin Kiki ... Izo's Mother Shigeo Kobayashi   Miyuki Komagata   Steve Kramer ... Man with Voice Box (voice) Dave Mallow ... Doctor (voice) Kazuhiro Mashiko   Michael McConnohie ... Yakuza Leader (voice) Yasukaze Motomiya   Hiroyuki Nagato ... Great Priest Mari Nakayama ... Woman in Attendance Liam O'Brien ... Prince (voice) Ken Ogata ... Swordsman Mitsuhiro Oikawa   Sam Riegel ... Izo (voice) Tokitoshi Shiota   Christopher Corey Smith ... Businessman (voice) (as Chris Kent) Harumi Sone   Melodee Spevack ... Original Mother (voice) (as Melodee M. Spevack) Doug Stone ... VIP (voice) Kim Strauss ... High Official (voice) Shun Sugata ... Monk Soldier Haruna Takase ... Lucky Mother Teah   Susumu Terajima   Kirk Thornton ... Prime Minister (voice) Kazuki Tomokawa ... Folk Singer Hitoshi Yamaguchi   Tarô Yamamoto   Joe Yamanaka   Rikiya Yasuoka ... Lender Hideji Ôtaki   Produced by Taizô Fukumaki   Fujio Matsushima   Kazuyoshi Okuyama   Original Music by Kôji Endô

Additional Info Premiere: August 21, 2004 DVD Release: October 11, 2005 Country: Distributor: Tokyo Shock Websites: Production Companies KSS (Izô Seisaku Jikkôiinkai) Excellent Film (Izô Seisaku Jikkôiinkai) Izo Partners Office Kitano Distributors Team Okuyama   (2004) (Japan) (theatrical) KSS   (2004) (Japan) (DVD) Rating Stats Overall Rating 6.0 / 10 Our Rating 5.7 / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users 5.7 / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #5,847 / 20,725 Ratings Breakdown Almost Perfect 2 total ratings Site Ranking #5,843 Little Demon: Season 1 (2022) #5,844 The Djinn (2021) #5,845 A Day To Die (2022) #5,846 Holes In The Sky: The Sean Miller Story (2021) #5,847 Izo (2004) #5,848 Petals On The Wind (2014) #5,849 Man's Best Friend (1993) #5,850 Men With Brooms (2002) #5,851 57 Seconds (2023)