Ken Ishii 'Extra' - Music Video (HD)

The amazing animated music video for 'Extra' by Ken Ishii. Directed by Koji Morimoto (the animation director of Akira). Upresed to 720p from my original beta sp source. This is the highest quality version of this video that you will see on the web.

[@0xadada]

I first watched this music video late at night on MTV and it felt like I had been parachuted into a foreign territory without a map. It felt like a vision of the future beyond my imagination, a future filled with nostalgia for a past I had never experienced, a nostalgia for a future that would never happen. A mourning for a lost future.

[@komixedm]

This is Japanese cyberpunk.

[@sparrowsanzo]

Same. That means you watched it on the MTV block called “Amp” just like I did. That was a great spot to get introduced to the genre known as Electronica

[@samirkanoun4621]

How high were you

[@0xadada]

@@samirkanoun4621 not at all, which is even more awesome. Good Art does that.

[@samirkanoun4621]

@@0xadada I agree plus I am actually very high so it's all good👍

[@user-fg3rt5bm1l]

これアニメＰＶ史上最高傑作だと思うのよ

[@doowlleb31415926535]

同意。 もう二度とこのクォリティでは作れないですね。一年に一回は見ます。

[@hellharmony]

いまだにコレが一番危険で一番最先端 同じくらいの刺激を求めて 彷徨い続けてるんだが …進歩ねぇなぁ

[@hellharmony]

実写でないPVがなんか 描き手だかの止め絵に歌詞かぶせただけとか パラパラマンガなみの稚拙なアニメとか ばっかになっちゃったんだよな

[@loysine8126]

激しく同意、後にも先にもこれを超えるアニメPVは出てこない　音楽とのシンクロも秀逸すぎる　尚、制作費は当時1200万円　令和の世であれば2000~3000万円はする　制作スタッフの本気度も半端ない

[@rooy1922]

After 20 years, this track still is a time machine which brings you far ahead to the future.

[@nevioth]

so true

[@Chrono3494]

Agreed

[@RealMonoid]

I remember when this ran late at night on MTV. Was something completly new to me, anime & techno.

[@unwelldanny7108]

They shoulda featured this on beavis and butthead. LMAO Anime & techno... Daft Punk must have seen this

[@waclawjarzabek6311]

me too and then on viva

[@ladema4391]

MTV Partyzone :)

[@nenoneno3836]

i saw that way to eraly ^^ i think i was 8 years or old 9 ^^ Man i was so scared about this and at same time totaly buffed ^^

[@kedabro1957]

@@unwelldanny7108 I think Daft Punk predates this.

[@user-eo1bw6ip3s]

ライブでケン・イシイのプレイを聴きながらこの映像をみた時の感動は今でも覚えてる。

[@adrianjimenez6388]

Man the 90's were without a doubt some golden years.

[@kaisyaya8492]

weird too

[@addielammy5276]

Adrian Jimenez dude I'm just seeing this

[@defconkev]

roger that

[@s3dchr]

*'90s

[@MemoryLaneCinema]

also when mtv pushed great music

[@jppurin545]

テクノ最高峰の楽曲だ.... 映像もアングラ感満載で大好き

[@ITHMustDie]

I was 9 when I first saw this... That was almost 20 years ago.. I have been into electronic music..ever since..

[@daoxmusic]

same here ! this song & this video changed my life forever

[@TzenHD]

I always forget this is nearly 20 years old... Still a stunning video to this day.

[@weeblbob233]

released in 1995. Its still exceptional work.

[@fugelkusch3722]

Same here. It got me from the first moment and never let me go. Sometimes I don't watch it for years and then I remember that stomping beat coming up in me together with the child on the tricycle holding the knife and just have to watch it again. It's a piece of art from a new century.

[@ZamanskyV]

I saw it played from the VHS in friend's apartment in 90's

[@KyokoUchinoko]

日本でTECHNOが本格的に流行るきっかけを作ったトラックだよね このトラックとUNDER WORLDの影響でTECHNOが大きく認知される事になったんだよ 90年代半ばから後半にかけての思い出と共にある名曲だねえ

[@zombiezombie5451]

その下地を作ったのが電気グルーヴと石野卓球 さらにその電気グルーヴと石野卓球の下地を作ったのがＹＭＯ

[@kedabro1957]

I grew up on a farm, raised by fundamentalists. Then I went to college in a big city. Everything in the normal world was so freakishly weird and chaotic to me. My personality fragmented, but no one else seemed bewildered by the world we were living in. But then, late at night, this video appeared on the screen. And it showed me what I felt like, right there, clear as neon in the night. For the first time in years I did not feel alone.

[@losangulos]

First time sober huh?

[@Poppable]

:)

[@nuevoencierro]

[@Mannex17]

the world depicted in this video is total hell, people acting out their deepest darkest desires and violences in VR. condolences dude lol.

[@jonathanolson772]

The city is not the normal world

[@pmr1067]

ギルガメッシュナイトを見たくて夜更かししてた群馬の片田舎に住む中学生の僕が事故的に出会ったMVがコレでした。81年生まれ、同世代の人で同じトリップ体験をした人は多いんじゃないかなって勝手に思ってます。

[@okuumi6015]

深夜の音楽番組に流れてました 96年位だったか.... 衝撃でした。かっこよすぎて

[@user-bw6fo8gi7x]

フジのBeat UK？

[@caolly3750]

もう昔の…昔の曲なのに、いつ聴いても新鮮でカッコイイと思う。

[@dogewood5499]

To be honest my Japanese friend, 1996 wasn’t so long ago in reality. I’d think 1906 was long ago, instead.

[@OrchardFilm]

ever since I first saw this video, I have been absolutely in love with the animation at 3:12... the shadows dancing all over his face, the lights reflected in his goggles... I know it's only a few seconds long, but it really is an incredibly detailed scene! makes for an awesome animated gif, too :)

[@KaMui_AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs]

Definitely revolutionary for 1995. In the audio and visual department on a whole new level! I remember watching this when I was a kid and I was totally blown away. This whole package is still a beast! But what do you expect from Katsuhiro Otomo, who also drew "Akira". :) Edit: but this one was directed by Koji Morimoto. My bad.

[@Meteotrance]

it's from Madhouse or maybe Studio 4°C studio but this clip of Ken Ishii is directed by Koji Morimoto, with Otomo and Kawajiri it was one of the finest anime director from the last decade before the millenium.

[@KaMui_AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs]

@@Meteotrance true dat!

[@rngmstrs]

Otomo is nothing to do with the video. Just an FYI

[@KaMui_AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs]

@@rngmstrs You are right. It is Koji Morimoto who was also the director of the Akira movie. Meteotrance just stated that before. My bad!

[@vgmaster9]

@@KaMui_AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Morimoto didn't direct Akria, he was just an animator for the film.

[@user-bn5qm5fy4e]

Highlights of this animation is that incorporating 3DCG Perth and digital coloring in 1995. I want to also note that even human skeletal movements are made skillfully reproduced in Japan own animation.

[@namesurname624]

best stylyzed 3d ever really like the textures and the lightening the retro-way it looks

[@janicebelfiore856]

My son did a portrait of a Japanese DJ superimposed on mountains. My son loved Anime. I think it is a portrait of Ken Ishii

[@user-ch1go5wi5m]

こういうAKIRA系の絵柄が時代を感じながらも古臭くはならないのは、結局アニメの中でずっと異端なんだからと思う。 だから10年後も、流行りに飽きた若い人がこのPV見つけて衝撃受けるんだろうと思う。

[@saikiko-to4328]

まさに自分です、衝撃うけまくりですありがとうございます。

[@siouxsie1977]

AKIRA系の絵柄で草

[@hujiko-xi5iq]

@@siouxsie1977 何が面白いの？純粋に気になる。

[@nyoro.]

@@hujiko-xi5iqセルアニメっぽいだけで、AKIRAとは随分とかけ離れてる絵柄だからじゃない？

[@cutwir3317]

I live in America and when I first saw this in the 90’s. The standard now is horrible. Quantity over quality.

[@fritzkuhne2055]

the sounds of things happening in the video making their way into the song is MINDBLOWING. i cant believe this was made long before i was born!

[@KoolBully65]

I have been looking for this video for 12 years and I finally found it. By pure chance no less. It just popped up in my recommended. I want to cry ;w;

[@tliloselotl_]

When I found this at 11 or 12 I didn't know what the f I was watching but I just I relented and enjoyed it, getting addicted to the tune. Since then I been finding out the amazing references and reverences that this animation makes to anime and cyberpunk culture.

[@60508]

man this banger really did exist! I remember watching it at like silly am on MTV back in the day and never been able to find it since.

[@toybox231]

EXTRA は良く聞いていたのに、 このＰＶの存在を今更知った・・・こんなスゴイ作品だったとは・・・

[@thehaptiK]

god this song and video still hits as hard as it did almost 30 years ago.

[@MoikaloopTV]

Amazing. Need more stuff like this

[@fgs7381]

Your animations are very nice

[@Hoz.em_too_much]

久しぶりに超見たくなって来た。 やっぱりこのゾクッとさせられる映像と音楽。

[@Veezyjung]

I can't like this enough. The more I watch it, the more it hits me. It's incredible.

[@pareporia]

退廃的な作品だけど、実際も水不足、阪神大震災、オウムとか 結構カオスってた。だからこそ、惹かれたのかなぁ。

[@user-is8wt3be4h]

そして関東大震災にコロナと現代も混沌としてます

[@air_heart]

いつ聴いても新鮮です。ちゃんと信号待ちしてるのが可愛い。

[@jordanpeterson5038]

I wish this was something like a movie or a series. There's just so much more I wanted to see and know. Actually, I always thought this took place in the lain universe or something.

[@silvermoose2631]

Ikr, I would kill for a movie of this. You should check out Koji Morimoto's other works like Dimension Bomb: kzbin.info/www/bejne/roDYqZxrdtmChKc

[@bunniiexe73]

I watched a really good anime that had a theme similar to this but It’s been ages since I saw it and I can’t remember what it’s called :(( Update: I found the movie! :D It’s called metropolis and it’s not exactly like the video but some parts are similar and it’s a great movie :))

[@YourMom-ww4yr]

@@bunniiexe73 Akira maybe?

[@jasper5134]

@@bunniiexe73 paprika?

[@kedabro1957]

@@bunniiexe73 Black Mirror had an episode animated like this.

[@user-ui8tr1es1z]

やっと見つけたわ、めっちゃ昔に見て微妙に覚えてるぐらいだったから見つけられて嬉しい

[@user_TACHI_back]

おめでとう

[@jackaleope]

i discovered this video on a niche anime website way back in 2001. 20 years ago. to this day, both this song and video still give me chills whenever i watch it. jelly tones is definitely one of the best techno albums of all time.

[@M1sterSalsa]

Same. Saw this on Sputnik7 years ago and it's always stuck with me.

[@yoshiyukikobayashi8598]

当時AKIRAが好きだったから映像からはいったけど楽曲もカッコよすぎて、たまげた思い出。

[@ido187]

this track and video changed my life

[@DepthsOfOcanthus]

This track is what got me into Japanese techno and electronic music in general. I absolutely love it!

[@user-sm5ek8oj6s]

VRが遠い未来の物だと思われていたのに発明されちゃったね、すごい。

[@3188117]

高価過ぎて普及はしてませんが、一応この時代でもVRってあったんです。五指にセンサーのあるVRグローブとか、未だに普及に至ってませんが、当時これ見た日本では、近未来エロゲーが凄い事になるとか予測されてた。今から見るとちゃちポリゴン世界でしたが、ローポリならではの独特な味（異次元感）がある。 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIfRZHtvaL6ml8k

[@calvinrockwell6397]

@3188117 VRは現時点での最先端技術を結集してようやくできあがったブレイクスルーだと思っていました。 それが過去30年も前から既に同様のものが存在していた事に気づかせてくれてありがとうございます。 エンタメから設計、医療・軍事用のシュミレーターなど考えうる用途までそっくりそのままでしたね。 普通に生活していて見ることがなかったので思いもよらなかったのですが当初は500万から2000万ほどの価格帯だったことを知り普及に至らなかったことも納得です。 こういった素晴らしいコメントがあるからコメント欄は見ていて楽しい！ (個人的にバーチャロンというゲームのデザインがなぜアレだったのかという謎が解けてすっきりしました)

[@sheldoncooper8199]

I ve seen this on Tv in 1996 at 12 o clock at night on MTV and i NEVER forgot.

[@jidi7201]

Masterpiece, enjoy it with headphones please

[@user-mp3ds6sr7f]

引き込まれるけど、見てて不安な気持ちになる。

[@FlaminJoker666]

@かていかくみこ Not just Japan lmao.

[@levelminusone]

WAY WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of its time. Still spinning the single record.

[@rhysf.505]

1 million views...looks like this video is _finally_ getting the recognition it deserves...

[@yabrilman]

thats how Cyberpunk 2077 should be done

[@kaisyaya8492]

@@yabrilman more like "observer"

[@QueenJosu]

I just got done calling a friend for seven and a half hours straight all night and we watched this music video together. I immediately fell in love with this and I will never forget the night I spent with them :3 if you're reading this Blair, I love you bestie!! ~^

[@thegreenrocket]

🥺

[@Akitsu_Hanabi]

うわあこれ何年もずっと探してた！！嬉しい！！ 一回見ただけなのにずっと印象に残ってた…

[@lucasworktv]

This song and the video are from a completely different world and era! 90s were a truly futuristic period, especially in Japan!

[@TheZweeez]

Walking through Shinjuku at night, listening to this song/whole album was an awesome expirience... i want back to Tokyo so badly, it hurts...

[@jasonlafontaine6306]

I remember seeing a 10 second clip of this on MTV in like 1998? Some show about special effects in music videos where they would show clips of videos by Bjork and Squarepusher and other artists that weren't "mainstream" enough for MTV

[@YungGZ]

Listening this while riding a motorcycle in Cyberpunk 2077..... I'm living a dream!

[@FoxyWhispers]

Seeing this for the first time on MTV as a kid.. So surreal.

[@hirohiro551]

全てにおいて、映像も音楽も最先端。今でも。名曲すぎる。

[@user-br3zo2iw1l]

siouxsie1977 様 たった今始めてみて動画が独特過ぎてでこの曲が好きになりました1:31のシーンが好きです。なんだかアキラ、FREEDOM、の画風に似ていたのでこの動画に行き着きました。

[@_chuyo7632]

あーらびっくり。Kenさんは天才やで。 脳の出来がすごく良い人ですよ。Innerelementsの前後から音楽好きの間ではすごい人が現れたもんだと話題沸騰でした。

[@jppurin545]

siouxsie1977 は？

[@user-lk6ii5nn8c]

ドイツ軍塹壕強襲兵 お前好きよ

[@user-lt1fr3le4y]

このコメント欄は、この曲とよく合っている気がする。

[@dunderheadgood]

i love art that u can look at and enjoy for its surface level aesthetic value or it’s implied meaning

[@ponhiro4698]

25年前の地元はテクノと言えば電気グルーヴぐらいの認知度で他のアーティスト名とか殆ど出なかったんだが EXTRA以降はR&S Recordsを皮切りに海外アーティストも話題に出るようになってニマニマしてたわ パソコンショップのBGMがテクノだらけになってた時期でもある

[@powpow7172]

懐かしい 映像特典付きCD買って何度も見てた

[@playa187ek8]

音も映像もぶっ飛んでますね！ 最後のオレの獲物と言わんばかりのダークヒーロー感が良いね。

[@aabcc]

Thank you so much Masashi Kishimoto for steering me to this video and scaring the crap out of me. *finger guns* (vol. 18 of Naruto he talks about the animation of this video)

[@NoranekoKidoutai]

凄い映像・・ とても19年も前の作品とは思えない・・

[@kanii6318]

この映像と合わせて世界観もすごいですね！！！

[@NoranekoKidoutai]

KANII大友克洋氏のアキラもそうですが、この様な退廃美は大好きです！

[@siouxsie1977]

90年代はこんなもんすよね。80年代のカオティックさに比べるとまだ可愛いけど。

[@mimichaten]

むしろ19年前の時代だからこその産物。

[@sdmqt6896]

アレックス アレックス もう一度あの時代が戻って来れないかな。。。

[@JonneeFromBerlin]

Thanks for uploading this HD version. I know this video for so many years. It's still one of my favourites.

[@8823tv]

KEN ISHII 祝20周年 18年も昔に今でも希有な才能と才能とがぶつかって産まれたこのPVは正に奇跡 色褪せないなー

[@augustomontes8202]

After more than 20 years, still impressive, if not more than when it first came out.

[@netako]

Both the music and the music video were so ahead of its time.

[@chasingwock]

Koji morimoto is the man

[@harald-bosh]

This track is AMAZING! My all time favourite! 💯❤💥

[@elkoraki779]

Finally, after all these years, I found it

[@hikari_no_yume]

You can really tell this is pre-Porygon (which was in 1997; this was in 1995). A lot of photosensitive epilepsy seizure-inducing flashing in this.

[@samwallaceart288]

Yeah, and I'm paranoid about getting strobe sickness, so unfortunately there was a fair bit of this I had to skip.

[@namesurname624]

what is Porygon?

[@hikari_no_yume]

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon It's the name of a Pokémon, whose episode in the Pokémon anime in Japan contained a few seconds of rapid blue and red strobe lights, and hospitalised hundreds of kids with photosensitive epilepsy. Since then TV and such have been much more careful about strobe lighting.

[@namesurname624]

Andrea 💜 people with seizures have ruined special effects :(((

[@hikari_no_yume]

Better the rest of us lose out somewhat than kids get seizures and sent to hospital.

[@KOME1985KOME]

レインボー2000で始めて見た時はカッコ良すぎて感動しました！

[@user-my2sm7ms7z]

間違いなくケン・イシイがベストアクトだったし、エクストラが鳴った瞬間がRAINBOW2000の絶頂だった。

[@user-gs2up5ml8l]

レインボー2000懐かしい！！ 初めての野外レイブでした。 思い出させてくれて ありがとう！

[@ice_milk_ice_milk]

レインボー2000で私もケンさんで踊り狂いました いい思い出だ

[@nita_1105]

1:30-1:38のとこガチで好き

[@tetugyo]

気が合うな

[@420JeffChen69]

Holyshit I only saw this video once when I was 12 Since that I searching for this like 20yrs This video DO changed my life

[@UndeadGary]

Damn. No kidding this was directed by Koji Morimoto. This video oozes Akira.

[@zephyr7316]

色褪せないなぁ かっこいい

[@basu862]

And im discovering this dope piece in 2023

[@ArborecNWLTD]

What an amazing video! Thanks for uploading it!

[@SatomiForward]

Ive been looking for this music video for years.

[@meanwhileinjapan2265]

すごい！this song is just amazing it never disappoints when played at parties and listening this is always great fun ken's early work is really good I can't wait to play this in the nightclubs in Tokyo and osaka 2022.

[@basdee23]

He is the time ahead in Tokyo 😊

[@TurboMintyFresh]

Fuck my life the 90s was something truly special

[@Frieren_a_freira_defeituosa]

I need of a amv of akira with this music

[@LaLaLa9333]

元々が初回特典に付いてたCD-Rに収録されてたMPEG-1動画だから、HDにしたところで画質は悪いなぁ。 このPVが海外で公開された時、「これは日本の何処だ」って質問が多かったらしい。ｗ

[@thegreenrocket]

holy fuck, ive never had a seizure before but i feel like im epileptic after that. what an insane and beautiful work of art though

[@Hellucinogen79]

Damn!!.I remember this from back in the day...15 years old this is and it's STILL better than most the animation you see today..Great Upload!

[@RaDKb]

I remember watching this looong ago in my childhood. Still a fan.

[@noep8043]

Well kids This is REAL Cyberpunk

[@GDSullivan4]

This video will light up your night if you're feelin right!!

[@vitormonteiro2180]

Ken Ishi rocks

[@burrorojo19]

Literally the best videoclip I have ever seen. Always wanted to see it in hi def. Cheers.

[@user-yz4yf6op5z]

これが好きで当時アルバム購入した。今の時代でもやっぱりカッコイイ

[@user-oh7pe2kl4w]

テクノサウンドは､令和の時代にこよ再評価されるべき!!

[@Madbull01]

Wie geilist das denn Ken Ishi HD !!! - Danke fürs Hochladen. What a great stuff, ken Ishi @ HD Thankx for posting

[@Dakayto]

When KZbin recommendations is your best friend

[@fritzkuhne2055]

not anymore. YT have FUCKED the reconmendet feed

[@user-st1ue3rc1z]

I wish I knew more songs like this. I love the "tribal" like beat.

[@user-dg1jk9qs3i]

こんだけ凄い世界観なのに、 踏み切りは、ちゃんと待つんだね！

[@brainchild1979]

Amazing video, one of the best I've ever seen....

[@anouar97]

This clip is one of the best I ever saw. Awesome!

[@TAMBOREBRIO]

a masterpiece of animation

[@olliinthekitchen7825]

Till this day, I still wish they made a movie out of this.

[@fddude96]

I was just reading about this song in a Naruto manga I'm reading. Masashi Kishamoto was talking about how one of his favourite animators Koji Morimoto worked on some of the animation in the video.

[@Jaydenwybenga]

Literally same haha, I checked it out when I first read it and just spent like an hour trying to remember it

[@user-ue1xe2mu2b]

映像が今でも斬新すぎる。素晴らしい・・・・・

[@davidvincent380]

Masashi Kishimoto was a huge fan of this AMV at the time and could watch it all day. Maybe his taste for creepy puppets (and creepy stuff in general) comes from this...

[@leaxgame714]

I came here because he wrote it in Naruto

[@jonathanrocha5274]

I could see a lot of Naruto in this clip. It's even weird.

[@kawada48]

この曲に出会えて良かった…

[@QUEERsten]

finally i can see this video clearly. amazing, many thanks!

[@user-ph9yf5vb2d]

色の組み合わせに衝撃でした。。

[@marianacarolina7952]

This is the most beautiful thing in the whole world....

[@extrabigmehdi]

Yes, I can't believe how something so wicked, can be so fascinating at the same time.

[@johntgw]

If you like this style, you might also like Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne (that's what it was called here anyway).

[@macb6236]

If your on shrooms its better

[@johna6602]

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU JUST RECEIVED YOUR 100TH LIKE FROM ME!

[@user-nk5re2ff2s]

すげえ好き

[@220bpm]

Love it! there is nothing better than this!!! Ken Ishii!!!

[@stef25ify]

This on a big screen during a Ken Ishii live event in the mid 90s, together with an innocent looking white swan tablet is what started it all for me. Haven't looked back ever since.