Teruo Ishii

Director

Born: January 1, 1924 (81 years old)

Died: August 12, 2005

Place of birth: Tokyo, 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.

Filmography (28)

• Lone Wolf and Cub (1973, ★ 8.2)
• The Executioner (1974, ★ 6.6)
• Love and Crime (1969, ★ 6.9)
• Abashiri Prison (1965, ★ 7.1)
• Mother (1952, ★ 6.9)
• Yakuza Law (1969, ★ 5.9)
• Female Yakuza Tale (1973, ★ 6.1)
• Orgies of Edo (1969, ★ 5.8)
• Blind Woman's Curse (1970, ★ 6.2)
• Love Letter (1953, ★ 6.8)
• Attack from Space (1965, ★ 4.8)
• Evil Brain from Outer Space (1966, ★ 4.9)
• Horrors of Malformed Men (1969, ★ 5.6)
• Inferno of Torture (1969, ★ 5.6)
• Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973, ★ 6.5)
• Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968, ★ 5.6)
• The Executioner II: Karate Inferno (1974, ★ 5.5)
• Ginza Cosmetics (1951, ★ 6.4)
• Black Line (1960, ★ 4.6)
• Screwed (1998, ★ 4.5)
• Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy (1968, ★ 5.2)
• Flower, Storm and Gangster (1961, ★ 6)
• Atomic Rulers (1965, ★ 4.1)
• Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001, ★ 3.4)
• Japanese Hell (1999, ★ 3.8)
• Invaders from Space (1965, ★ 4.2)
• An Outlaw (1964, ★ 4.2)
• Fire Line (1961, ★ 3.6)