Shoko Asahara
Ishii returned to Toei in 1991 with the V-cinema film "The Hit Man: Blood Smells Like Roses". In 1993 he made a film of Yoshiharu Tsuge's manga, "Master of the Gensenkan Inn" ("Gensenkan Shujin"), and in 1998 he filmed Tsuge's avant-garde manga, "Wind-Up Type" ("Nejishiki"). In 1999 he made , using the trial of Aum sect leader Shoko Asahara as the main inspiration for the plot. Ishii's last film, "The Blind Beast Vs The Dwarf" (2001) was another based on the work of Edogawa Rampo.