Teruo Ishii
Directing1924Tokyo, Japan
Biography
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.
Known For
Acting History
1999
1995
Villain Field
Director
Villain Field
Screenplay
1993
Gensen-Kan Inn
Director
Gensen-Kan Inn
Screenplay
1991
1987
The Legend of Kentauros
Director
1976
Detonation! Violent Games
Director
The Runaway Season
Director
Detonation! Violent Games
Screenplay
The Runaway Season
Screenplay
Hobo General
Director
Hobo General
Screenplay
1975
1974
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Screenplay
The Executioner
Director
The Executioner
Screenplay
Military Comfort Woman
Screenplay
1973
Female Yakuza Tale
Director
Female Yakuza Tale
Writer
Yakuza of the Present
Director
Lone Wolf and Cub
TVDirector• 78 eps
1972
The Red Silk Gambler
Director
1970
Blind Woman's Curse
Director
Killer's Hit List
Director
Killer's Hit List
Screenplay
Blind Woman's Curse
Screenplay
1969
Yakuza Law
Director
Horrors of Malformed Men
Director
Orgies of Edo
Director
Inferno of Torture
Director
Love and Crime
Director
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Director
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Screenplay
Yakuza Law
Screenplay
Orgies of Edo
Screenplay
Love and Crime
Screenplay
Horrors of Malformed Men
Screenplay
Inferno of Torture
Screenplay
1968
Shogun's Joy of Torture
Director
Shogun's Joy of Torture
Writer
Hot Springs Geisha
Director
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
Director
Once and For All Pt.２
Director
Once and For All Pt.２
Screenplay
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
Screenplay
Hot Springs Geisha
Screenplay
1967
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Screenplay
Once and For All
Director
Once and For All
Screenplay
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
Screenplay
1966
Secret Agent 101
Director
Secret Agent 101
Screenplay
The Bullet and the Horse
Director
The Bullet and the Horse
Screenplay
1965
Abashiri Prison
Director
Abashiri Prison
Writer
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Screenplay
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
Screenplay
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Screenplay
Attack from Space
Director
Atomic Rulers of the World
Director
1964
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
Director
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
Screenplay
Storm Party
Director
Storm Party
Screenplay
An Outlaw
Screenplay
An Outlaw
Director
1963
Gang and G-Men Part 2
Director
Gang and G-Men Part 2
Screenplay
Eleven Gangsters
Director
Eleven Gangsters
Writer
Legends of Honor
Director
Legends of Honor
Screenplay
1962
Gang vs. Gang
Writer
Gang vs. Gang
Director
All Rascals
Screenplay
All Rascals
Director
G-Men in the Pacific
Director
G-Men in the Pacific
Screenplay
1961
Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
Director
Sexy Line
Writer
Sexy Line
Director
Death on the Mountain
Screenplay
Fire Line
Screenplay
Flower, Storm and Gangster
Director
The Yellow Climate
Director
1960
Black Line
Director
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Director
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Screenplay
Yellow Line
Screenplay
Yellow Line
Director
Women of Whirlpool Island
Director
Black Line
Screenplay
1959
Broken Blossoms
Director
Broken Blossoms
Writer
Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
Director
Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
Screenplay
1958
1956
Girl's Reform School
Assistant Director
1955
The Shiinomi School
Assistant Director
The Tale of Jiro
Assistant Director
1953
Love Letter
Assistant Director
1952
Mother
Assistant Director
1951
Ginza Cosmetics
Assistant Director
1950
A Mother's Love
Assistant Director