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Teruo Ishii
Japanese Film director, Theatre director and author (1924-2005) · Japan · On the map · Directors · Died at 81
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).
Teruo Ishii is read about 106 times a day, in 9 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 7 July 2026
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Blind Beast vs Killer DwarfFilm, Director1999
Japanese HellFilm, Director, Writer1991
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like RosesFilm, Director, Writer1975
Detonation: Violent RidersFilm, Director, Writer1973
Lone Wolf and CubSeries, Director
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten EightFilm, 1973Director1972
The Red Silk GamblerFilm, Director1970
Blind Woman's CurseFilm, Director, Writer1968
Hot Springs GeishaFilm, Director, Writer1966
Evil Brain from Outer SpaceFilm, Director1965
Abashiri PrisonFilm, Director, Writer1962
G-Men in the PacificFilm, Director, Writer1961
Death on the MountainFilm, Writer1959
Broken BlossomsFilm, Director, Writer1958
Flesh PierFilm, Director, Writer1924Born1 January 1924People around Teruo
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Tetsurō Tamba Teruo directed Jigoku: Japanese Hell (1999)
Ken Utsui Teruo directed Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals (1957)
Yōko Mihara Also in Queen Bee's Anger and Black Line
Reiko Ike Teruo directed The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Sonny Chiba Teruo directed The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Kanjūrō Arashi Also in Abashiri Prison (1965)
Shigeru Amachi Also in Queen Bee's Anger and Black Line
Ken Takakura Teruo directed Abashiri Prison (1965)- Tatsumi Hijikata Also in Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Toru Abe Also in Abashiri Prison and Blind Woman's Curse
Asao Koike Also in Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Shinjirō Ehara Also in Flower, Storm and Gangster (1961)
Sada Abe Teruo directed Meiji · Taishô · Shôwa: Ryôki onna hanzai-shi (1969)
Meiko Kaji Teruo directed Blind Woman's Curse (1971)
Shinya Tsukamoto Teruo directed Blind Beast vs. Dwarf (2001)
Ryō Ikebe Also in The Executioner (1974)
Kunie Tanaka Teruo directed Abashiri Prison (1965)- Noriko Tatsumi Also in Hot Springs Geisha (1968)
Chisako Hara Also in Broken Blossoms (1959)
Eiji Gō Also in The Executioner (1974)
Rikiya Yasuoka Also in The Executioner (1974)
Shōji Nakayama Also in Queen Bee's Anger and Atomic Rulers
Toshio Sugie Directed Death on the Mountain (1961)
Junko Ikeuchi Also in Sexy Line and Atomic Rulers
Filmography 40
170 credits on file
Television 1
About this person
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.
