Teruo Ishii

Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1924, Tokyo, Japan
Died: August 12, 2005
Movies: 94

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.3

Blind Woman's Curse

1970

5.7

Horrors of Malformed Men

1969

6.1

Female Yakuza Tale

1973

5.6

Shogun's Joy of Torture

1968

6.6

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

1973

6.6

The Executioner

1974

5.7

Inferno of Torture

1969

5.9

Orgies of Edo

1969

5.3

Attack from Space

1965

5.0

Evil Brain from Outer Space

1966

Filmography

2006

Teruo Ishii Fan Club

Directing, Writing & Producing

2001	Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf	Director
1999	Japanese Hell	Director, Producer, Screenplay
1998	Screwed	Director, Screenplay, Producer
1995	Burai-Heiya	Director, Screenplay
1993	Gensen-Kan Inn	Director, Screenplay
1991	The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses	Director, Writer
1987	The Legend of Kentauros	Director
1979	Violent Fighters	Director, Screenplay
1977	Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army	Director
1976	The Runaway Season	Director, Screenplay
1976	Hobo General	Director, Screenplay
1976	Detonation! Violent Games	Director, Screenplay
1975	300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations	Director, Screenplay
1975	Detonation: Violent Riders	Director, Writer
1975	Great Jailbreak	Director, Screenplay
1974	The Executioner II: Karate Inferno	Director, Screenplay
1974	The Executioner	Director, Screenplay
1974	Military Comfort Woman	Screenplay
1973	Yokosuka Navy Prison	Screenplay
1973	Yakuza of the Present	Director
1973	Female Yakuza Tale	Director, Writer
1973	Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight	Director
1972	The Red Silk Gambler	Director
1971	Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat	Director
1971	Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2	Director
1971	Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô	Director
1971	Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1	Director
1970	Blind Woman's Curse	Director, Screenplay
1970	Prison Tales	Director, Screenplay
1970	Killer's Hit List	Director, Screenplay
1969	Horrors of Malformed Men	Director, Screenplay
1969	Love and Crime	Director, Screenplay
1969	Yakuza Law	Director, Screenplay
1969	Inferno of Torture	Director, Screenplay
1969	Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin	Director, Screenplay
1969	Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love	Director, Writer
1969	Orgies of Edo	Director, Screenplay
1968	Shogun's Joy of Torture	Director, Writer
1968	Hot Springs Geisha	Director, Screenplay
1968	Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy	Director, Screenplay
1968	Once and For All Pt.２	Director, Screenplay
1967	A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm	Director, Screenplay
1967	Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil	Director, Screenplay
1967	Once and For All	Director, Screenplay
1967	Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido	Screenplay, Director
1966	Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country	Director, Screenplay
1966	Secret Agent 101	Director, Screenplay
1966	Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South	Director
1966	The Bullet and the Horse	Director, Screenplay
1966	Evil Brain from Outer Space	Director
1965	Prison Walls of Abashiri 4	Director, Screenplay
1965	Prison Walls of Abashiri 3	Director, Screenplay
1965	Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2	Director, Screenplay
1965	Invaders from Space	Director
1965	Abashiri Prison	Director, Writer
1965	Atomic Rulers	Director
1965	Attack from Space	Director
1965	The Boss	Screenplay, Director
1964	Storm Party	Director, Screenplay
1964	The Shogun's Vault	Director, Screenplay
1964	An Outlaw	Screenplay, Director
1964	Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang	Director, Screenplay
1963	Legends of Honor	Director, Screenplay
1963	Defeat the Boss	Director, Screenplay
1963	Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers	Director, Screenplay
1963	Eleven Gangsters	Director, Writer
1962	Gang vs. Gang	Writer, Director
1962	G-Men in the Pacific	Director, Screenplay
1962	All Rascals	Screenplay, Director
1961	The Yellow Climate	Director
1961	Mist and Shadows	Director, Screenplay
1961	Flower, Storm and Gangster	Director
1961	Death on the Mountain	Screenplay
1961	Fire Line	Screenplay
1961	Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide	Director
1961	Sexy Line	Writer, Director
1960	Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu	Director, Screenplay
1960	Yellow Line	Screenplay, Director
1960	Women of Whirlpool Island	Director, Writer
1960	Black Line	Director, Screenplay
1959	Fight to the Death in a Blizzard	Director, Screenplay
1959	Broken Blossoms	Director, Writer
1958	Queen Bee's Anger	Director
1958	Secret White Line Zone	Director
1958	Flesh Pier	Screenplay, Director
1958	Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite	Director
1957	Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity	Director
1957	Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals	Director
1957	Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction	Director
1957	Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle	Director
1957	Super Giant Continues	Director
1957	Super Giant	Director
1957	King of the Ring: The World of Glory	Director

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