Takashi Ishii

Directing

Takashi Ishii

Born — Died

1946-07-11 — 2022-05-22

Place of birth

Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Takashi Ishii was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and manga artist. He has directed several pinku eiga erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 crime thriller Gonin starring Takeshi Kitano.

Known for

Flower & Snake poster
5.7

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave

Flower & Snake

2004

Flower & Snake II poster
6.5

The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.

Flower & Snake II

2005

Gonin poster
6.6

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Gonin

1995

Sweet Whip poster
5.9

When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.

Sweet Whip

2013

Muhan poster
5.3

Gritty softcore thriller about a female assassin brutally victimized in her past, her target, and her sadistic yakuza handler.

Muhan

1985

Angel Guts: Red Porno poster
5.7

Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her…

Angel Guts: Red Porno

1981

Film credits

Behind the camera

Flower & Snake poster
5.7

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave

Flower & Snake

2004

Flower & Snake poster
5.7

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave

Flower & Snake

2004

Flower & Snake II poster
6.5

The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.

Flower & Snake II

2005

Flower & Snake II poster
6.5

The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.

Flower & Snake II

2005

Gonin poster
6.6

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Gonin

1995

Gonin poster
6.6

Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.

Gonin

1995

Sweet Whip poster
5.9

When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.

Sweet Whip

2013

Sweet Whip poster
5.9

When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.

Sweet Whip

2013

Sweet Whip poster
5.9

When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.

Sweet Whip

2013

Sweet Whip poster
5.9

When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.

Sweet Whip

2013

Muhan poster
5.3

Gritty softcore thriller about a female assassin brutally victimized in her past, her target, and her sadistic yakuza handler.

Muhan

1985

Angel Guts: Red Porno poster
5.7

Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her…

Angel Guts: Red Porno

1981

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend poster
5.5

A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend

2013

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend poster
5.5

A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend

2013

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend poster
5.5

A lonely otaku is fired from his job. He is rescued in a ruined building by a strange girl in a sailor suit. When he wakes up, the girl becomes a figure. The young man and the pretty figure begin to live together.

Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend

2013

Love Hotel poster
6.7

A call-girl named Yumi and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started, they return to the scene of their first macabre passion.

Love Hotel

1985

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo poster
6.1

Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

1988

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo poster
6.1

Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo

1988

Angel Guts: Red Classroom poster
6.4

A porn magazine editor stumbles upon an amateur gang rape film and, struck by the girl's acting, decides to find her.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom

1979

The Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture poster
6.1

A seemly ordinary high school girl tormented by masochistic visions gets involved with a teacher who harbours a secret passion for her.

The Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture

1982

Freeze Me poster
5.8

When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her attackers.

Freeze Me

2000

Freeze Me poster
5.8

When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her attackers.

Freeze Me

2000

Freeze Me poster
5.8

When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her attackers.

Freeze Me

2000

Freeze Me poster
5.8

When a woman is harassed and threatened by one of the men who gang-raped her five years previously, she is pushed to take icy revenge against her attackers.

Freeze Me

2000

A Night in Nude poster
5.6

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.

A Night in Nude

1993

A Night in Nude poster
5.6

Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and see the sights. What Jiro doesn't know is that this woman isn't who she says she is. She's on the run from her Yakuza boyfriend, and Jiro is going to be unwittingly entwined in the situation.

A Night in Nude

1993

Evil Dead Trap poster
6.1

A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Evil Dead Trap

1988

Angel Guts: Nami poster
5.5

While investigating stories of rape for a magazine article, a determined but callous reporter becomes perversely aroused as she meets the women who are suffering through the horror of their experiences. But will she suffer their fate if she goes too far?

Angel Guts: Nami

1979

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love poster
8.5

Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love

2007

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love poster
8.5

Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love

2007

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love poster
8.5

Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.

The Brutal Hopelessness of Love

2007

Angel Guts: Red Flash poster
3.9

Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.

Angel Guts: Red Flash

1994

Angel Guts: Red Flash poster
3.9

Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.

Angel Guts: Red Flash

1994

Ame no etranger poster
NR

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Ame no etranger

2026

Black Angel poster
6.4

Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.

Black Angel

1998

Black Angel poster
6.4

Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.

Black Angel

1998

Black Angel poster
6.4

Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.

Black Angel

1998

Behind Flower and Snake poster
6.5

In Behind Flower and Snake, together with extreme Japanese director Takashi Ishii, Aya Sugimoto shows you how they transformed this adaptation of erotica author Dan Oniroku's novel into the controversial hit, Flower & Snake (2004). This film features the behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes. You can hear what the director and actress think about the making of the film, and see for yourself how Aya Sugimoto made her character alive.

Behind Flower and Snake

2003

Behind Flower and Snake poster
6.5

In Behind Flower and Snake, together with extreme Japanese director Takashi Ishii, Aya Sugimoto shows you how they transformed this adaptation of erotica author Dan Oniroku's novel into the controversial hit, Flower & Snake (2004). This film features the behind-the-scenes footage and deleted scenes. You can hear what the director and actress think about the making of the film, and see for yourself how Aya Sugimoto made her character alive.

Behind Flower and Snake

2003

Behind Flower and Snake II poster
1.0

The making of Flower and Snake II (2005)

Behind Flower and Snake II

2005