Teruo Ishii was a Japanese film director best known in the West for his early films in the Super Giant series, and for his films in the Ero guro subgenre of pinku eiga such as Shogun's Joy of Torture. He also directed the 1965 film, Abashiri Prison, which helped to make Ken Takakura a major star in Japan.
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10 April 1965
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
01 August 1971
This is the second volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii.
04 July 1971
This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii.
21 October 1964
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
30 March 1968
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
17 June 1961
Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.
05 April 1975
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo.
28 September 1968
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
12 April 1958
Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring.
25 October 1955
Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.
10 August 1974
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work together to take out an infamous drug dealer.
05 October 1963
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
20 September 1975
Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.
31 May 1965
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind.
31 December 1965
A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail.
21 December 1987
The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men.
29 April 1959
1959 film directed by Teruo Ishii for Shintoho.
19 May 1968
A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
26 August 1961
A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region.
06 June 1973
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas.
15 January 1976
Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.
06 October 1979
In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening.
13 July 1962
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime.
29 April 1960
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women.
31 December 1966
Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo, and directed by Ishii Teruo of "Kamba 101: Killing Bouncer" fame.
09 January 1969
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
28 June 1968
A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house.
23 April 1966
A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch.
27 June 1969
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
31 October 1965
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt.
10 July 1965
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
03 February 1973
A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.
12 June 1952
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
17 July 1977
A new insect enemy that feeds off of the energy of all living things has set its eyes on Earth.
17 June 1998
It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.
21 January 1966
An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe.
27 August 1969
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras.
21 November 1972
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site.
22 April 1962
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
08 August 1971
Sixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
31 October 1969
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.
02 May 1969
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production".
28 December 1974
When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both.
24 July 1993
An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube .
20 June 1970
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound.
09 January 1961
It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover.
22 November 1975
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
13 January 1960
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman.
23 June 1961
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
