Teruo Ishii

Personal Info

Known For Directing

Known Credits 102

Gender Male

Birthday January 1, 1924

Day of Death August 12, 2005 (81 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Also Known As

石井輝男

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Teruo Ishii

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.

Known For

Directing

2001

… Director

1999

… Director

1998

… Director

1995

… Director

1993

… Director

1991

… Director

1987

… Director

1979

… Director

1977

… Director

1976		The Runaway Season … Director
1976		Hobo General … Director
1976		Detonation! Violent Games … Director

1975		300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins … Director
1975		Detonation: Violent Riders … Director
1975		Great Jailbreak … Director

1974		The Executioner II: Karate Inferno … Director
1974		The Executioner … Director

1973		Yakuza of the Present … Director
1973		Female Yakuza Tale … Director
1973		Lone Wolf and Cub (78 episodes) … Director
1973		Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight … Director

1972

… Director

1971		Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat … Director
1971		Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2 … Director
1971		Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô … Director
1971		Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1 … Director

1970		Blind Woman's Curse … Director
1970		Prison Tales … Director
1970		Killer's Hit List … Director

1969		Horrors of Malformed Men … Director
1969		Love and Crime … Director
1969		Yakuza Law … Director
1969		Inferno of Torture … Director
1969		Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin … Director
1969		Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love … Director
1969		Orgies of Edo … Director

1968		Shogun's Joy of Torture … Director
1968		Hot Springs Geisha … Director
1968		Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy … Director
1968		Once and For All Pt.２ … Director

1967		A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm … Director
1967		Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil … Director
1967		Once and For All … Director
1967		Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido … Director

1966		Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country … Director
1966		Secret Agent 101 … Director
1966		Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South … Director
1966		The Bullet and the Horse … Director
1966		Evil Brain from Outer Space … Director

1965		Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 … Director
1965		Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 … Director
1965		Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 … Director
1965		Invaders from Space … Director
1965		Abashiri Prison … Director
1965		Atomic Rulers … Director
1965		Attack from Space … Director
1965		The Boss … Director

1964		Storm Party … Director
1964		The Shogun's Vault … Director
1964		An Outlaw … Director
1964		Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang … Director

1963		Legends of Honor … Director
1963		Gang and G-Men Part 2 … Director
1963		Eleven Gangsters … Director

1962		Gang vs. Gang … Director
1962		G-Men in the Pacific … Director
1962		All Rascals … Director

1961		The Yellow Climate … Director
1961		Mist and Shadows … Director
1961		Flower, Storm and Gangster … Director
1961		Ren'ai Zubari Kôza … Director
1961		Sexy Line … Director

1960		Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu … Director
1960		Yellow Line … Director
1960		Women of Whirlpool Island … Director
1960		Black Line … Director

1959		Fight to the Death in a Blizzard … Director
1959		Broken Blossoms … Director

1958		Queen Bee's Anger … Director
1958		Secret White Line Zone … Director
1958		Flesh Pier … Director
1958		Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite … Director

1957		Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity … Director
1957		Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals … Director
1957		Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction … Director
1957		Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle … Director
1957		Super Giant Continues … Director
1957		Super Giant … Director
1957		King of the Ring: The World of Glory … Director

1956

… Assistant Director

1955		The Tale of Jiro … Assistant Director
1955		The Shiinomi School … Assistant Director

1953

… Assistant Director

1952

… Assistant Director

1951

… Assistant Director

1950		Golden Beast … Assistant Director
1950		A Mother's Love … Assistant Director

Writing

1999

… Screenplay

1998

… Screenplay

1995

… Screenplay

1993

… Screenplay

1991

… Writer

1979

… Screenplay

1976		The Runaway Season … Screenplay
1976		Hobo General … Screenplay
1976		Detonation! Violent Games … Screenplay

1975		300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins … Screenplay
1975		Detonation: Violent Riders … Writer
1975		Great Jailbreak … Screenplay

1974		The Executioner II: Karate Inferno … Screenplay
1974		The Executioner … Screenplay
1974		Military Comfort Woman … Screenplay

1973		Yokosuka Navy Prison … Screenplay
1973		Female Yakuza Tale … Writer

1970		Blind Woman's Curse … Screenplay
1970		Prison Tales … Screenplay
1970		Killer's Hit List … Screenplay

1969		Horrors of Malformed Men … Screenplay
1969		Love and Crime … Writer
1969		Yakuza Law … Screenplay
1969		Inferno of Torture … Screenplay
1969		Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin … Screenplay
1969		Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love … Writer
1969		Orgies of Edo … Screenplay

1968		Shogun's Joy of Torture … Writer
1968		Hot Springs Geisha … Screenplay
1968		Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy … Screenplay
1968		Once and For All Pt.２ … Screenplay

1967		A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm … Screenplay
1967		Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil … Screenplay
1967		Once and For All … Screenplay
1967		Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido … Screenplay

1966		Secret Agent 101 … Screenplay
1966		The Bullet and the Horse … Screenplay

1965		Prison Walls of Abashiri 4 … Screenplay
1965		Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 … Screenplay
1965		Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 … Screenplay
1965		Abashiri Prison … Writer
1965		The Boss … Screenplay

1964		Storm Party … Screenplay
1964		The Shogun's Vault … Screenplay
1964		An Outlaw … Screenplay
1964		Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang … Screenplay

1963		Legends of Honor … Screenplay
1963		Gang and G-Men Part 2 … Screenplay
1963		Eleven Gangsters … Writer

1962		Gang vs. Gang … Writer
1962		G-Men in the Pacific … Screenplay
1962		All Rascals … Screenplay

1961		Mist and Shadows … Screenplay
1961		Death on the Mountain … Screenplay
1961		Fire Line … Screenplay
1961		Sexy Line … Writer

1960		Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu … Screenplay
1960		Yellow Line … Screenplay
1960		Women of Whirlpool Island … Writer
1960		Black Line … Screenplay

1959		Fight to the Death in a Blizzard … Screenplay
1959		Broken Blossoms … Writer

1958

… Screenplay

1956

… Adaptation

Editing

1966		Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country … Editor
1966		Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South … Editor

1965

… Editor

Production

1999

… Producer

1998

… Producer

Acting

2006

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