Teruo Ishii

Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001)

A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes. ...

Japanese Hell (1999)

From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand tria ...

Screwed (1998)

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment. ...

Burai-Heiya (1995)

Gensen-Kan Inn (1993)

An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the ...

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses (1991)

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 Legend of Kentauros (1987)

The Centaurs are a racing team of 93 bikers from the port city of Yokohama who are named after the legendary Greek horse/men. Arthur and Ken fall out over their love for the same lady deciding to settle their competition with a race. ...

Violent Fighters (1979)

In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The pl ...

Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army (1977)

A new insect enemy that feeds off of the energy of all living things has set its eyes on Earth. ...

The Runaway Season (1976)

The third movie in the "Boso" series. ...

Hobo General (1976)

Detonation! Violent Games (1976)

Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide. ...

300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations (1975)

In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen. ...

Detonation: Violent Riders (1975)

Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko. ...

Great Jailbreak (1975)

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling da ...

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno (1974)

When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. But a double-cross leads to a risky high-security bank heist and loads of martial arts mayhem. ...

The Executioner (1974)

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work together to take out an infamous drug dealer. ...

Military Comfort Woman (1974)

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

Yokosuka Navy Prison (1973)

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison. ...

Yakuza of the Present (1973)

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region. ...

Female Yakuza Tale (1973)

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. ...

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)

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. ...

The Red Silk Gambler (1972)

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone ga ...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat (1971)

Sixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2 (1971)

This is the second volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii. Contains films 5 to 8 in the "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô (1971)

Second film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1 (1971)

This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii. Contains films 1 to 4 in the "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series. ...

Blind Woman's Curse (1970)

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 ga ...

Prison Tales (1970)

Killer's Hit List (1970)

A 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. ...

Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)

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. ...

Love and Crime (1969)

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer an ...

Yakuza Law (1969)

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

Inferno of Torture (1969)

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 confrontati ...

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love (1969)

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

Orgies of Edo (1969)

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 ...

Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)

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

Hot Springs Geisha (1968)

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 ...

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy (1968)

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

Once and For All Pt.２ (1968)

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

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm (1967)

Convict son revenges innocent father's death. ...

Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil (1967)

Once and For All (1967)

Film concerning warring yakuza families. ...

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido (1967)

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country (1966)

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 ...

Secret Agent 101 (1966)

Japan-Hong Kong co-production. ...

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South (1966)

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. ...

The Bullet and the Horse (1966)

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents o ...

Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966)

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet. ...

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 (1965)

A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail. ...

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 (1965)

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his ret ...

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 (1965)

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

Invaders from Space (1965)

A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late. ...

Abashiri Prison (1965)

Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this ha ...

Atomic Rulers (1965)

Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil! ...

Attack from Space (1965)

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth. ...

The Boss (1965)

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is ordered to acquire the rights to work to level the reclaimed land and prevent the Doshikai from expanding f ...

Storm Party (1964)

Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop. ...

The Shogun's Vault (1964)

Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners ...

An Outlaw (1964)

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal. ...

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang (1964)

Legends of Honor (1963)

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii ...

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers (1963)

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

Eleven Gangsters (1963)

Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money. ...

Gang vs. Gang (1962)

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member's crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero ...

G-Men in the Pacific (1962)

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

All Rascals (1962)

Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together. ...

The Yellow Climate (1961)

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto. ...

Mist and Shadows (1961)

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region. In pursuit of the truth, they are led to a web of corporate f ...

Flower, Storm and Gangster (1961)

A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons. ...

Death on the Mountain (1961)

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered. ...

Fire Line (1961)

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 ...

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza (1961)

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku". ...

Sexy Line (1961)

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. F ...

Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu (1960)

Japanese action film. ...

Yellow Line (1960)

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 girlfri ...

Women of Whirlpool Island (1960)

Black Line (1960)

Freelance reporter "Scoop" Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line's rotten swamp o ...

Fight to the Death in a Blizzard (1959)

1959 film directed by Teruo Ishii for Shintoho. ...

Broken Blossoms (1959)

War drama about army nurses. ...

Queen Bee's Anger (1958)

Part of the Queen Bee series. ...

Secret White Line Zone (1958)

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series. ...

Flesh Pier (1958)

Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style. ...

Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite (1958)

The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous battle ensues. ...

Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity (1957)

The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. ...

Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals (1957)

Japanese mystery film. ...

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction (1957)

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2) ...

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle (1957)

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens. ...

Super Giant Continues (1957)

The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. ...

Super Giant (1957)

Foreign terrorists threaten Japan with a nuclear attack. ...

King of the Ring: The World of Glory (1957)

Boxing film directed by Teruo Ishii in his directorial debut. ...

Omoide tsukiyo (1956)

Japanese romance film. ...

Girl's Reform School (1956)

The day to day life in an establishment for delinquent teenage girls. ...

The Tale of Jiro (1955)

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother. ...

The Shiinomi School (1955)

A university professor and his wife have two sons with infantile paralysis. Through trial and error, they struggle to open a school for disabled children at their own expense. Based on a true story, it features natural child performances under Hiroshi Shim ...

Love Letter (1953)

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko. ...

Mother (1952)

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family. ...

Ginza Cosmetics (1951)

A few days in the life of a quiet geisha, single mother of a smart young boy, in the lively Tokyo quarter of Ginza. A woman devoted to others' needs, she'll end by taking part herself in one of the many disguises of Ginza. ...

Golden Beast (1950)

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Western-style outfit lying in his exam room. He must retrace his blurry steps of the night before, and navigate ...

A Mother's Love (1950)

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives. ...

Teruo Ishii Fan Club (2006)

A documentary on Teruo Ishii, the Japanese "King of Cult". ...