
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
7.9Widower 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
5.6A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
Shogun's Joy of Torture
1968
6.9In a world where people awaken to supernatural powers, one ordinary police officer Makoto Hikawa stands against this chaos.
Agito: Superpower War
2026
5.9Three 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
6.2A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
1969
5.7After 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
Film credits
2020s · 2 titles
6.9In a world where people awaken to supernatural powers, one ordinary police officer Makoto Hikawa stands against this chaos.
Agito: Superpower War
2026
7.4The descendants of the legendary Fuma ninja clan face off against the Tokugawa shogun's family of Yagyu samurai as they kidnap women in the hopes of finding a concubine for the shogun
Shogun's Ninja
2025
1990s · 1 titles
1970s · 3 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Fear of Sex
1970
8.0A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-directed film from 1970, also starring Watase, Yoshida and Sato called PRISONERS' BACK LIST.
Killer's Hit List
1970
NRSixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat
1971
1960s · 53 titles
7.9Widower 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
5.6A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
Shogun's Joy of Torture
1968
5.9Three 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
6.2A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
1969
5.7After 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
7.2Discover 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
6.5In 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
7.5This 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
6.1A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
Yakuza Law
1969
3.4A 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
5.8The 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
6.5Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
6.8Hikaru 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
7.0Based 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
5.7A 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
7.0Kazuo, 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
5.7Japan 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
5.0It 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Kanto Woman Fortitude
1969
10.0Dr. 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
NR1962 Japanese movie
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
恋と出世に強くなれ!
1963
NR1962 Japanese movie
Kiriko no unmei
1962
7.0This 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
7.8The 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
NRAn 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
Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
Secret Agent 101
1966
NRSequel to Tokyo Drifter
Tokyo Drifter 2: The Sea Is Bright Red as the Color of Love
1966
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
1967
NR1963 Japanese movie
Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō
1963
NRYutaro 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Blue in Isezaki
1968
10.0Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Once and For All
1967
5.0Matsukichi, 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
NRA melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.
Lover's Duet
1967
NR1962 Japanese movie
Naite waratta hanayome
1962
7.0Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
The Night We Danced
1963
NR1962 Japanese movie
Otoko no Uta
1962
5.0No synopsis available yet.
A Million Girls
1963
NR1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Flower in a Storm
1962
NRKoji, 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
3.6Two 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
NRPro 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 synopsis available yet.
Women of Whirlpool Island
1960
9.0Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
Once and For All Pt.2
1968
NR1962 Japanese movie
Kyūjin ryokō
1962
NR1962 Japanese movie
Tōkyō sanosa musume
1962
Japanese comedy film.
Rush to Our Sweetheart
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Female Thief and the Bomb
1960
NR1962 Japanese movie
Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
1962
NRAssistant 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dokuritsu bijin-tai
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
This Is a Man's World
1960


