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Teruo Ishii is a Director, Writer, Producer and Assistant Director Japonais born on 1 january 1924 at Tokyo (Japon)
Teruo Ishii (石井輝男, Ishii Teruo, January 1, 1924 – August 12, 2005) 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 ("erotic-grotesque") subgenre of pinku eiga such as Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968). He also directed the 1965 film, Abashiri Prison, which helped to make Ken Takakura a major star in Japan. Referred to in Japan as "The King of Cult", Ishii had a much more prolific and eclectic career than was generally known in the West during his lifetime.
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Nationality Japon
Birth 1 january 1924 at Tokyo (Japon)
Death 12 august 2005 (at 81 years) at Tokyo (Japon)
Birth 1 january 1924 at Tokyo (Japon)
Death 12 august 2005 (at 81 years) at Tokyo (Japon)
Teruo Ishii (石井輝男, Ishii Teruo, January 1, 1924 – August 12, 2005) 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 ("erotic-grotesque") subgenre of pinku eiga such as Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968). He also directed the 1965 film, Abashiri Prison, which helped to make Ken Takakura a major star in Japan. Referred to in Japan as "The King of Cult", Ishii had a much more prolific and eclectic career than was generally known in the West during his lifetime.
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Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer (2001)
, 1h35Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films
Actors Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Tetsurō Tanba, Eiji Funakoshi, Noriko Sengoku, Sion Sono, Mako Midori
Rating37%
Monzo Kobayashi is a dime-novel writer. He goes to see the stage of Ranko Mizuki, a star of an all-girls'-operetta company known as Asakusa Revue. Monzo notices a creepy man sitting beside him who keeps his head slumped down and does not even look up when Ranko appears on stage. On the way home from the theater, Monzo encounters another creepy situation. A dwarf (inch-high samurai) with a child-sized body and a grown-up's head passes right by him and is carrying a woman's arm that has been sliced off from the shoulder. Being a writer, this strangely enhances his interest of this dwarf and he begins an investigation about dwarfs.
Japanese Hell (1999)
, 1h41Directed by Teruo Ishii
Origin Japon
Genres Horror
Actors Yōko Satomi, Tetsurō Tanba, Michiko Maeda, Masato Tsujioka
Rating46%
Rika est une magnifique jeune fille de 16 ans. Un jour, elle s'inscrit à un cours de yoga juste par curiosité. Cependant, c'est un piège utilisé par une secte qui commence à utiliser Rika comme personnage symbolique de la secte. En réalisant les relations frivoles du maître de la secte, Kasahara, avec les membres féminins, et la doctrine superficielle du groupe, Rika essaye d'échapper à la secte, mais en vain.
Gensen-Kan Inn (1993)
, 1h38Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Kaoru Mizuki, Shirō Sano, Mayo Kawasaki
Rating69%
, 1h23Directed by Teruo Ishii, Shigehiro Ozawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shihomi, Bruce Li, Seizō Fukumoto, Jyunichi Haruta
Rating59%
The film starts as Takuma Tsurugi retrieves Go Owada during a riot. After Tsurugi receives what is believed to be payment for bringing Go to them, he discovers that he had been paid in newspapers. Outraged, Tsurugi lashes out at the mobsters present and clashes with a young woman from Taiwan named Huo Feng. The Owada family is enraged that Tsurugi turned on them and decides to crush him.
The Executioner (1974)
, 1h27Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yutaka Nakajima, Makoto Satō, Ryō Ikebe, Masahiko Tsugawa (津川 雅彦)
Rating66%
Dans ce film d'action et d'arts martiaux, Sonny Chiba y interprète le rôle du dernier descendant du clan Ninja Koga. Reconverti en détective privée Chiba va être mêler a une affaire de trafique de drogue dans lequel il affrontera des membres de la mafia new-yorkaise qui tente de s'implanter au Japon. Chiba sera associer dans cette mission a un ancien flic, et a un condamner a mort.
Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
, 1h26Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Pornographic
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Reiko Ike, Toru Abe, Kanjūrō Arashi, Akemi Negishi, Seizō Fukumoto, Ryōhei Uchida
Rating63%
À Tokyo, durant l’ère Meiji, Ocho est une joueuse et une pickpocket. Aidée par un aventurier solitaire, elle enquête sur un gang usant de prostituées pour passer de l’héroïne en contrebande de Chine…
Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
, 1h25Directed by Teruo Ishii
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Meiko Kaji, Yoshi Katō, Makoto Satō, Toru Abe, Ryōhei Uchida
Rating64%
Akemi (Kaji) 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.
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Horror
Actors Asao Koike, Masaomi Kondō, Kichijirō Ueda
Rating64%
Après s'être évadé d'un hôpital psychiatrique, un homme prend l'identité d'un mort afin d'enquêter sur étrange cas de sosies. Il se retrouve sur une île où sévit un médecin qui transforme des hommes en monstres...
Love and Crime (1969)
, 1h32Directed by Teruo Ishii
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Asao Koike, Kichijirō Ueda, Yoshi Katō
Rating66%
Ayant eu à pratiquer l'autopsie de sa femme adultère et suicidée, un médecin légiste japonais décide de mener une enquête sur la criminalité féminine en passant en revue diverses affaires judiciaires célèbres : l'affaire de l'hôtel Toyokaku, l'affaire Sada Abe, l'affaire Yoshio Kodaira , l'affaire Takahashi Oden.
Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
, 1h36Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Asao Koike, Kichijirō Ueda, Keiko Tsushima
Rating60%
Une femme, qui entretient une liaison incestueuse avec son frère, se vend pour payer les soins de ce dernier. Dans un couvent, une soeur entretient une relation avec un moine, déclenchant ainsi la colère et la jalousie de la mère supérieure. Le tatoueur le plus talentueux du Japon assiste à des tortures de femmes occidentales afin de réaliser son chef d'oeuvre.
Atomic Rulers (1965)
, 1h23Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ken Utsui, Minoru Takada, Shinsuke Mikimoto
Rating38%
The story involves the superhero Starman who is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from the nuclear holocaust threatened by the country of Meropol.
Attack from Space (1965)
, 1h16Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ken Utsui, Minoru Takada, Shinsuke Mikimoto
Rating34%
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.
Abashiri Prison (1965)
, 1h32Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Ken Takakura, Koji Nanbara, Tetsurō Tanba, Kanjūrō Arashi, Toru Abe, Kunie Tanaka
Rating69%
In Hokkaido's Abashiri Prison, Shinichi Tachibana, model prisoner with six months remaining in his sentence is handcuffed to Gonda, a hardened criminal. When Gonda and other inmates escape from the prison, Tachibana must go along.
Evil Brain from Outer Space (1965)
, 1h18Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ken Utsui, Minoru Takada, Shinsuke Mikimoto
Rating35%
The film concerns Starman's efforts to save the Earth from the followers of Balazar, an evil genius from the planet Zemar whose brain has been preserved after his own assassination.
Invaders from Space (1965)
, 1h18Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Superhero films
Actors Ken Utsui, Minoru Takada, Shinsuke Mikimoto
Rating43%
The story involves the superhero Starman who is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from the Salamander Men from the Planet Kulimon.