This is a biography for Ketsukusa Productions written by Eric "Jocker" Rossiter. Spelling and grammar errors may occur cuz I'm from Japan!
1993
It all started when my parents sent both my brothers to Seattle WA. I was still a young lad and I guess I was pretty sad that they left me in Japan by myself. So my mother bought them a camera so they could send us video footage of themselves. Instead of just sending us a boring tape that said how they were doing, they sent us homemade kung fu movies and I was like "fuck!"
1995
After couple of years I decided to go to Seattle to live with my brothers. Since I didn’t really know any English I filmed a lot with my brothers during those days. We were influenced a lot by Sonny Chiba, Jackie Chan, John Woo and Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi. these films were very creative, and well filmed(for amatures). making these movies was the only escape from my horrible days in seatle.
1999
I already moved to Hawaii and I haven't been filming for a long time... until one my friends brought out a camera for new years. I was like “Let’s make a movie!”, that's when I introduced movie making to my friends in Hawaii. Most movies around this time were crap cuz we screwed up all the time and there was no editing yet, but we were advancing...
2001
In 2001 my friend let me borrow a digital camera and I was able to edit for the first time. That made movie making way more interesting. This is when we started to film stunt movies, I guess we were influenced by Tom Green and CKY videos. This is also when we broadcasted our movies on some local channels and got sued for $2000 because I kicked a frog to death in the film. Our video also got banned from that channel... How tragic
2002
A year when we are making lot's of movies. It's the year we finished some great movies called, Toilet-No-Kagi, Women Wallet, Rabbit Dash to Hell, Analdemons and the most extreme movie KICKING DRUGS DRAMA!!!! This year is also when I thought of Ketsukusa as our name for all our productions. It doesn’t have a deep meaning, it means “Smelly Ass".
2003
we made tons of movies but the one that stands out is the remake of "BAT ATTACK" it actualy took around half a year to make... starting from late 2002 'till july 2003, due to everyones busy schedule, it's done and we entered this movie to some film festivals and failed...another great event this year is that, we are starting to meet other film makers, and getting involved with the film industry a little more.
and I think everybody took acting classes this year.
1995
2001
