Teruo Ishii

Directing

Teruo Ishii

Born 1924-01-01 · Tokyo, Japan

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Female Yakuza Tale poster
6.1

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

Female Yakuza Tale

1973

Female Yakuza Tale poster
6.1

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

Female Yakuza Tale

1973

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

1964

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

1964

Military Comfort Woman poster
7.5

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

Military Comfort Woman

1974

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

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

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 poster
8.0

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

1965

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 poster
8.0

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

1965

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

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

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers poster
10.0

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

1963

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers poster
10.0

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

1963

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses poster
6.3

After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible.

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

1991

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses poster
6.3

After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible.

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

1991

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

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

Once and For All poster
10.0

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Once and For All

1967

Once and For All poster
10.0

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Once and For All

1967

G-Men in the Pacific poster
6.3

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

G-Men in the Pacific

1962

G-Men in the Pacific poster
6.3

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

G-Men in the Pacific

1962

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight poster
6.6

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.

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

1973

Blind Woman's Curse poster
6.3

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. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

Blind Woman's Curse

1970

Blind Woman's Curse poster
6.3

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. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

Blind Woman's Curse

1970