The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Wes Anderson. It is Anderson's fourth feature-length film and was released in the United States on December 25, 2004. It was written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach and was filmed in and around Naples, Ponza, and the Italian Riviera. The film stars Bill Murray as the eponymous Steve Zissou, an eccentric oceanographer who sets out to exact revenge on the "jaguar shark" that ate his partner Esteban. Zissou is both a parody of and homage to French
Haruhiko Yamanouchi Chinese Restaurant" (1981), "2020 Texas Gladiators" (1982), "The Sword of the Barbarians" (1982), "2019, After the Fall of New York" (1983), "Endgame" (1983), "Warriors of the Year 2072" (1984) and "Under the Chinese Restaurant" (1987). Yamanouchi starred in Adriano Celentano's musical "Joan Lui" (1985) and in Gabriele Salvatores's science-fiction film "Nirvana" (1997). He also starred in several American productions, such as Stuart Gordon's "Robot Jox" (1990), Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" (2004), Paul McGuigan's "Push" (2009) and Peter Weir's "The Way Back" (2010). He most notably portrayed the main antagonist Ichirō Yashida / Silver Samurai in "The