# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/teruo-ishii
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:51:29.864Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/teruo-ishii"
name: "Teruo Ishii"
slug: "teruo-ishii"
description: "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 (\"erotic-grotesque\") subgenre of sexploitation such as Shogun's Joy 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."
tagline: "Japanese Film director, Theatre director and author (1924–2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Teruo_Ishii.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1924-01-01"
deathDate: "2005-08-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.046157333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0411030/"
    handle:    "nm0411030"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://pinky-violence.com/ishii_teruo.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8%2C_%D0%A2%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BE"
    title: "Исии, Тэруо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%89"
    title: "تيرو ايشى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Ishii"
    title: "Teruo Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "ترو ایشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Ishii"
    title: "Teruo Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Ishii"
    title: "Teruo Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E4%BA%95%E8%BC%9D%E7%94%B7"
    title: "石井輝男"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%8B%9C%EC%9D%B4_%EB%8D%B0%EB%A3%A8%EC%98%A4"
    title: "이시이 데루오"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Ishii"
    title: "Teruo Ishii"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1139678"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/86246"
    title: "Teruo Ishii"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump