Teruo Ishii
Born: 1924-01-01 in Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2005-08-12
Known For: Directing
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
2006
2001
- Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf ... (Director)
1999
- Japanese Hell ... (Director)
1998
- Screwed ... (Director)
1995
- Burai-Heiya ... (Screenplay)
1993
- Gensen-Kan Inn ... (Director)
1991
- The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses ... (Writer)
1987
- The Legend of Kentauros ... (Director)
1979
- Violent Fighters ... (Screenplay)
1977
- Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army ... (Director)
1976
- Detonation! Violent Games ... (Director)
- The Runaway Season ... (Director)
- Hobo General ... (Screenplay)
1975
- Great Jailbreak ... (Director)
- Detonation: Violent Riders ... (Writer)
- 300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations ... (Director)
1974
- Military Comfort Woman ... (Screenplay)
- The Executioner ... (Director)
- The Executioner II: Karate Inferno ... (Director)
1973
- Lone Wolf and Cub ... (Director)
- Female Yakuza Tale ... (Writer)
- Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight ... (Director)
- Yokosuka Navy Prison ... (Screenplay)
- Yakuza of the Present ... (Director)
1972
- The Red Silk Gambler ... (Director)
1971
- Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô ... (Director)
- Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1 ... (Director)
- Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat ... (Director)
- Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2 ... (Director)
1970
- Blind Woman's Curse ... (Director)
- Killer's Hit List ... (Screenplay)
- Prison Tales ... (Director)
1969
- Orgies of Edo ... (Director)
- Love and Crime ... (Director)
- Horrors of Malformed Men ... (Director)
- Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love ... (Director)
- Yakuza Law ... (Director)
- Inferno of Torture ... (Director)
- Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin ... (Director)
1968
- Shogun's Joy of Torture ... (Writer)
- Hot Springs Geisha ... (Director)
- Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy ... (Director)
- Once and For All Pt.２ ... (Director)
1967
- Once and For All ... (Screenplay)
- A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm ... (Screenplay)
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido ... (Screenplay)
- Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil ... (Director)
1966
- Evil Brain from Outer Space ... (Director)
- Secret Agent 101 ... (Director)
- The Bullet and the Horse ... (Director)
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South ... (Director)
- Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country ... (Editor)
1965
- Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 ... (Director)
- Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 ... (Director)
- Abashiri Prison ... (Director)
- The Boss ... (Screenplay)
- Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 ... (Director)
- Invaders from Space ... (Director)
- Attack from Space ... (Director)
- Atomic Rulers ... (Director)
1964
- Storm Party ... (Director)
- An Outlaw ... (Screenplay)
- Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang ... (Director)
- The Shogun's Vault ... (Director)
1963
- Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers ... (Director)
- Legends of Honor ... (Screenplay)
- Eleven Gangsters ... (Writer)
- Defeat the Boss ... (Director)
1962
- G-Men in the Pacific ... (Screenplay)
- All Rascals ... (Director)
- Gang vs. Gang ... (Writer)
1961
- The Yellow Climate ... (Director)
- Mist and Shadows ... (Screenplay)
- Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide ... (Director)
- Death on the Mountain ... (Screenplay)
- Sexy Line ... (Writer)
- Fire Line ... (Screenplay)
- Flower, Storm and Gangster ... (Director)
1960
- Yellow Line ... (Screenplay)
- Black Line ... (Director)
- Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu ... (Screenplay)
- Women of Whirlpool Island ... (Director)
1959
- Fight to the Death in a Blizzard ... (Director)
- Broken Blossoms ... (Director)
1958
- Secret White Line Zone ... (Director)
- Queen Bee's Anger ... (Director)
- Flesh Pier ... (Director)
- Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite ... (Director)
1957
- Super Giant ... (Director)
- Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals ... (Director)
- Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle ... (Director)
- Super Giant Continues ... (Director)
- Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction ... (Director)
- Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity ... (Director)
- King of the Ring: The World of Glory ... (Director)
1956
- Girl's Reform School ... (Assistant Director)
- Omoide tsukiyo ... (Adaptation)
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)
- Golden Beast ... (Assistant Director)