Teruo Yoshida

Acting

Teruo Yoshida

Born

1936-03-23 (90)

Place of birth

Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Teruo Yoshida is a prominent Japanese actor and singer best known for his extensive work in mid-20th-century Japanese cinema. Born on March 23, 1936, in Osaka, Japan, he went on to graduate from Ritsumeikan University before launching his entertainment career. Yoshida is most highly recognized for his close, long-lasting collaboration with legendary cult director Teruo Ishii. During the late 1960s, he became a signature leading man in Ishii's provocative and taboo-busting genre films.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 53 titles

An Autumn Afternoon poster
7.9

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

An Autumn Afternoon

1962

Shogun's Joy of Torture poster
5.6

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Shogun's Joy of Torture

1968

Orgies of Edo poster
5.9

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.

Orgies of Edo

1969

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love poster
6.2

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

1969

Horrors of Malformed Men poster
5.7

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.

Horrors of Malformed Men

1969

Love and Crime poster
7.2

Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.

Love and Crime

1969

Twin Sisters of Kyoto poster
6.5

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

1963

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations poster
7.5

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

1969

Yakuza Law poster
6.1

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Yakuza Law

1969

Hot Springs Geisha poster
3.4

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. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?

Hot Springs Geisha

1968

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell poster
5.8

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

1968

Akitsu Hot Springs poster
6.5

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

This Year's Love poster
6.8

Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro's elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Although she gave the cold shoulder to Tadashi, she gradually became fond of Tadashi.

This Year's Love

1962

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country poster
7.0

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. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also directed "Abashiri Bangaichi: Confrontation in the South" in the same series.

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country

1966

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy poster
5.7

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

1968

Army Intelligence poster
7.0

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

Army Intelligence

1968

Inferno of Torture poster
5.7

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.

Inferno of Torture

1969

Sexy Line poster
5.0

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. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...

Sexy Line

1961

Kanto Woman Fortitude poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kanto Woman Fortitude

1969

Sex and Life poster
10.0

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.

Sex and Life

1969

Zoku aizen katsura poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Zoku aizen katsura

1962

恋と出世に強くなれ! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

恋と出世に強くなれ!

1963

Kiriko no unmei poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kiriko no unmei

1962

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South poster
7.0

This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big Bad" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also worked with Ito.

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South

1966

Yellow Line poster
7.8

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. A hired assassin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.

Yellow Line

1960

Dislikes poster
NR

An old man who has spent his life being respectful, honest and married for 35 years suddenly has thoughts of cheating with a young girl. He goes on a trip with the girl, but they are followed by a yakuza and all hell breaks loose.

Dislikes

1964

No artwork available
9.0

Japan-Hong Kong co-production.

Secret Agent 101

1966

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love poster
NR

Sequel to Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love

1966

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

1967

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō poster
NR

1963 Japanese movie

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō

1963

Destroyer Yukikaze poster
NR

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

Destroyer Yukikaze

1964

Blue in Isezaki poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Blue in Isezaki

1968

Once and For All poster
10.0

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Once and For All

1967

Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy poster
5.0

Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.

Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy

1967

Lover's Duet poster
NR

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Lover's Duet

1967

Naite waratta hanayome poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Naite waratta hanayome

1962

The Night We Danced poster
7.0

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

The Night We Danced

1963

Otoko no Uta poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Otoko no Uta

1962

A Million Girls poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Million Girls

1963

Flower in a Storm poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Flower in a Storm

1962

Kenjū to bakusō poster
NR

Koji, a driver for the Tokyo-Nagoya express bus service, picked up a woman one day on the Hakone Driveway. While Koji and his assistant Saburo were checking the engine, the woman disappeared, leaving a thick envelope on the seat.

Kenjū to bakusō

1960

Fire Line poster
3.6

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).

Fire Line

1961

Melody of Crime poster
NR

Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses for a young boy with polio. But when Toru learns from his fiancee Itsuko that his own mother has died, things take a turn for the worse.

Melody of Crime

1964

No artwork available
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Women of Whirlpool Island

1960

Once and For All Pt.2 poster
9.0

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

Once and For All Pt.2

1968

Kyūjin ryokō poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kyūjin ryokō

1962

Tōkyō sanosa musume poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Tōkyō sanosa musume

1962

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Rush to Our Sweetheart

1963

Female Thief and the Bomb poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Female Thief and the Bomb

1960

Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai

1962

Tale of Scarlet Love poster
NR

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.

Tale of Scarlet Love

1963

Dokuritsu bijin-tai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dokuritsu bijin-tai

1963

This Is a Man's World poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

This Is a Man's World

1960