MOVIZZ

Teruo Ishii1924 - 2005

usually

Director

Popularity

1.9

Famous

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.

Credits

Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf

2001

Horror

Director

3.5(13)

0.4

Japanese Hell

1999

Horror

Director, Producer, Screenplay

4.2(4)

0.2

Screwed

1998

Drama • Thriller

Director, Screenplay, Producer

4.9(5)

0.2

Villain Field

1995

Crime

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.4

Gensen-Kan Inn

1993

Comedy • Drama

Director, Screenplay

6(1)

0.2

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

1991

Action • Crime

Writer, Director

5.2(2)

0.5

The Legend of Kentauros

1987

Action • Animation • Drama

Director

0(0)

0.5

Violent Fighters

1979

Action • Crime • Drama

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.2

Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army

1977

Animation • Science Fiction

Director

0(0)

0.1

The Runaway Season

1976

Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Hobo General

1976

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.4

Detonation! Violent Games

1976

Action • Drama

Director, Screenplay

6(1)

0.5

300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations

1975

Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.3

Detonation: Violent Riders

1975

Action

Writer, Director

8(1)

Great Jailbreak

1975

Action • Crime

Director, Screenplay

7(1)

0.3

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

1974

Action • Comedy • Crime

Director, Screenplay

5.6(16)

0.6

The Executioner

1974

Action

Director, Screenplay

6.7(26)

0.4

Military Comfort Woman

1974

Drama • War

Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Yokosuka Navy Prison

1973

Action

Screenplay

7(1)

0.3

Yakuza of the Present

1973

Crime • Drama

Director

0(0)

0.1

Female Yakuza Tale

1973

Action • Crime • Drama • Thriller

Writer, Director

6.2(37)

0.6

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

1973

Action

Director

6.7(30)

1.2

The Red Silk Gambler

1972

Action • Crime

Director

7.7(3)

0.4

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

1971

Horror

Director

0(0)

0.1

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2

1971

Horror • TV Movie

Director

0(0)

0.2

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

1971

Horror

Director

0(0)

0.1

Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1

1971

Horror • TV Movie

Director

0(0)

0.1

Blind Woman's Curse

1970

Action • Crime • Drama • Horror

Director, Screenplay

6.2(59)

0.5

Prison Tales

1970

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Killer's Hit List

1970

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.1

Horrors of Malformed Men

1969

Horror • Mystery

Director, Screenplay

5.7(56)

0.4

Love and Crime

1969

Crime • Drama • Horror • Thriller

Director, Screenplay

6.9(9)

0.5

Yakuza Law

1969

Action • Crime • Drama

Director, Screenplay

6.1(17)

0.8

Inferno of Torture

1969

Drama • Horror

Director, Screenplay

5.8(27)

0.7

Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin

1969

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.3

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

1969

Drama • Thriller

Director, Writer

5.3(3)

0.5

Orgies of Edo

1969

Drama • Horror • Thriller

Director, Screenplay

5.8(23)

1.6

Shogun's Joy of Torture

1968

Drama • Horror

Writer, Director

5.7(35)

2.2

Hot Springs Geisha

1968

Drama

Director, Screenplay

2.3(3)

0.4

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

1968

Drama

Director, Screenplay

4.9(6)

0.6

Once and For All Pt.２

1968

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

1967

Action

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.2

Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

1967

Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Once and For All

1967

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.1

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

1967

Action • Drama

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.2

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country

1966

Crime

Editor, Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.2

Secret Agent 101

1966

Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.2

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South

1966

Action • Crime

Director

0(0)

0.4

The Bullet and the Horse

1966

Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Evil Brain from Outer Space

1966

Action • Science Fiction

Director

4.7(17)

0.3

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4

1965

Action

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.2

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

1965

Action • Crime

Director, Screenplay

7(1)

0.3

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

1965

Action • Crime

Director, Screenplay

7(2)

0.3

Invaders from Space

1965

Action • Science Fiction

Director

4.2(9)

0.2

Abashiri Prison

1965

Crime • Drama • Thriller

Director, Writer

7.1(8)

0.3

Atomic Rulers

1965

Action • Science Fiction • TV Movie

Director

3.9(7)

0.2

Attack from Space

1965

Action • Science Fiction • TV Movie

Director

4.8(18)

0.2

The Boss

1965

Crime

Screenplay, Director, Editor

0(0)

0.2

Storm Party

1964

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.2

The Shogun's Vault

1964

Action • Crime

Director, Screenplay

6.5(2)

0.2

An Outlaw

1964

Action • Crime

Screenplay, Director

4.8(5)

0.3

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

1964

Action • Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.3

Legends of Honor

1963

Crime

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.2

Gang and G-Men Part 2

1963

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Eleven Gangsters

1963

Action • Crime

Writer, Director

0(0)

0.2

Gang vs. Gang

1962

Crime

Writer, Director

7(2)

0.2

G-Men in the Pacific

1962

Crime

Screenplay, Director

6(2)

0.1

All Rascals

1962

Crime

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.2

The Yellow Climate

1961

Drama

Director

0(0)

0.1

Mist and Shadows

1961

Drama • Thriller

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

0.1

Flower, Storm and Gangster

1961

Comedy • Crime • Thriller

Director

6(5)

0.2

Death on the Mountain

1961

Screenplay

6.5(2)

0.1

Fire Line

1961

Crime • Drama

Screenplay

3.7(3)

0.1

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza

1961

Drama • Romance

Director

0(0)

0.2

Sexy Line

1961

Crime

Writer, Director

1(1)

0.3

Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu

1960

Crime • Drama

Screenplay, Director

0(0)

Yellow Line

1960

Crime

Screenplay, Director

7(3)

0.3

Women of Whirlpool Island

1960

Crime

Director, Writer

6.1(9)

0.2

Black Line

1960

Crime

Director, Screenplay

5.5(4)

0.2

Fight to the Death in a Blizzard

1959

Adventure • Crime • Thriller

Director, Screenplay

0(0)

0.1

Broken Blossoms

1959

Drama • War

Director, Writer

5(3)

0.2

Queen Bee's Anger

1958

Crime

Director

5(3)

0.1

Secret White Line Zone

1958

Crime

Director

1(1)

0.3

Flesh Pier

1958

Crime

Director, Screenplay

5(3)

0.2

Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite

1958

Action • Science Fiction

Director

0(0)

0.1

Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity

1957

Action • Science Fiction

Director

0(0)

0.1

Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals

1957

Crime • Mystery

Director

0(0)

0.1

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction

1957

Action • Science Fiction

Director

0(0)

0.1

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle

1957

Action • Science Fiction

Director

4(1)

0.1

Super Giant Continues

1957

Action • Science Fiction

Director

0(0)

0.1

Super Giant

1957

Action • Adventure • Science Fiction

Director

5(1)

0.1

King of the Ring: The World of Glory

1957

Drama

Director

0(0)

0.2

Omoide tsukiyo

1956

Drama • Romance

Adaptation, Assistant Director

0(0)

0.1

Girl's Reform School

1956

Drama

Assistant Director

0(0)

0.1

The Tale of Jiro

1955

Drama

Assistant Director

5(1)

0.1

The Shiinomi School

1955

Drama

Assistant Director

6.5(4)

0.3

Love Letter

1953

Drama • Romance

Assistant Director

6.8(22)

0.4

Mother

1952

Drama

Assistant Director

6.9(17)

0.3

Ginza Cosmetics

1951

Drama

Assistant Director

6.2(10)

0.3

Oogonju

1950

Mystery

Assistant Director

0(0)

0.1

A Mother's Love

1950

Drama

Assistant Director

0(0)

0.2