Teruo Ishii

from Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Timeline

2006Aged 82

  • Poster for Teruo Ishii Fan Club

    (Unknown)

2001Aged 77

  • Poster for Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf

    Director

1999Aged 75

  • Poster for Japanese Hell

    Screenplay

1998Aged 74

  • Poster for Screwed

    Producer

1995Aged 71

  • Poster for Burai-Heiya

    Screenplay

1993Aged 69

  • Poster for Gensen-Kan Inn

    Screenplay

1991Aged 67

  • Poster for The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

    Writer

1987Aged 63

  • Poster for The Legend of Kentauros

    Director

1979Aged 55

  • Poster for Violent Fighters

    Screenplay

1977Aged 53

  • Poster for Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army

    Director

1976Aged 52

  • Poster for Detonation! Violent Games

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hobo General

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Runaway Season

    Screenplay

1975Aged 51

  • Poster for Great Jailbreak

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Detonation: Violent Riders

    Writer

  • Poster for 300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations

    Screenplay

1974Aged 50

  • Poster for Military Comfort Woman

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Executioner

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

    Screenplay

1973Aged 49

  • Poster for Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

    Director

  • Poster for Female Yakuza Tale

    Writer

  • Poster for Yakuza of the Present

    Director

  • Poster for Yokosuka Navy Prison

    Screenplay

1972Aged 48

  • Poster for The Red Silk Gambler

    Director

1971Aged 47

  • Poster for Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1

    Director

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

    Director

  • Poster for Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2

    Director

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

    Director

1970Aged 46

  • Poster for Killer's Hit List

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Prison Tales

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Blind Woman's Curse

    Screenplay

1969Aged 45

  • Poster for Orgies of Edo

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

    Writer

  • Poster for Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Inferno of Torture

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Yakuza Law

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Love and Crime

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Horrors of Malformed Men

    Screenplay

1968Aged 44

  • Poster for Once and For All Pt.２

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hot Springs Geisha

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Shogun's Joy of Torture

    Writer

1967Aged 43

  • Poster for Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Once and For All

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

    Screenplay

  • Poster for A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

    Screenplay

1966Aged 42

1965Aged 41

  • Poster for The Boss

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Attack from Space

    Director

  • Poster for Atomic Rulers

    Director

  • Poster for Abashiri Prison

    Writer

  • Poster for Invaders from Space

    Director

  • Poster for Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Prison Walls of Abashiri 4

    Screenplay

1964Aged 40

  • Poster for Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

    Screenplay

  • Poster for An Outlaw

    Director

  • Poster for The Shogun's Vault

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Storm Party

    Screenplay

1963Aged 39

  • Poster for Eleven Gangsters

    Writer

  • Poster for Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Defeat the Boss

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Legends of Honor

    Screenplay

1962Aged 38

  • Poster for All Rascals

    Director

  • Poster for G-Men in the Pacific

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Gang vs. Gang

    Director

1961Aged 37

  • Poster for Sexy Line

    Director

  • Poster for Straight Talk on Romance: The Definitive Guide

    Director

  • Poster for Fire Line

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Death on the Mountain

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Flower, Storm and Gangster

    Director

  • Poster for Mist and Shadows

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Yellow Climate

    Director

1960Aged 36

1959Aged 35

  • Poster for Broken Blossoms

    Writer

  • Poster for Fight to the Death in a Blizzard

    Screenplay

1958Aged 34

  • Poster for Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite

    Director

  • Poster for Flesh Pier

    Director

  • Poster for Secret White Line Zone

    Director

  • Poster for Queen Bee's Anger

    Director

1957Aged 33

  • Poster for King of the Ring: The World of Glory

    Director

  • Poster for Super Giant

    Director

  • Poster for Super Giant Continues

    Director

  • Poster for Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle

    Director

  • Poster for Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction

    Director

  • Poster for Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals

    Director

  • Poster for Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity

    Director

1956Aged 32

1955Aged 31

1953Aged 29

  • Poster for Love Letter

    Assistant Director

1952Aged 28

  • Poster for Mother

    Assistant Director

1951Aged 27

  • Poster for Ginza Cosmetics

    Assistant Director

1950Aged 26

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