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.

Birthday

Jan 1, 1924

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Deathday

Aug 12, 2005

Also known as

石井輝男
いしいてるお

Credited in

As cast

Teruo Ishii Fan Club
As

As crew

The Legend of Kentauros
Role: Director
The Executioner
Role: Director
Attack from Space
Role: Director
Gang and G-Men Part 2
Role: Director
Gang and G-Men Part 2
Role: Screenplay
Yakuza Law
Role: Director
Atomic Rulers
Role: Director
Ren'ai Zubari Kōza
Role: Director
Evil Brain from Outer Space
Role: Director
Horrors of Malformed Men
Role: Director
The Red Silk Gambler
Role: Director
Female Yakuza Tale
Role: Director
Female Yakuza Tale
Role: Writer
Orgies of Edo
Role: Director
Blind Woman's Curse
Role: Director
Inferno of Torture
Role: Director
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
Role: Director
Japanese Hell
Role: Director
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Role: Director
Shogun's Joy of Torture
Role: Director
Shogun's Joy of Torture
Role: Writer
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Role: Director
Detonation! Violent Games
Role: Director
Love and Crime
Role: Director
Black Line
Role: Director
Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
Role: Writer
Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
Role: Director
Invaders from Space
Role: Director
Screwed
Role: Director
Hot Springs Geisha
Role: Director
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
Role: Director
Super Giant Continues
Role: Director
Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction
Role: Director
Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
Role: Director
Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite
Role: Director
Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle
Role: Director
Gensen-Kan Inn
Role: Director
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
Role: Writer
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
Role: Director
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Role: Director
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Role: Screenplay
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Role: Screenplay
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Role: Director
Abashiri Prison
Role: Director
Abashiri Prison
Role: Writer
Gang vs. Gang
Role: Writer
Once and For All Pt.２
Role: Screenplay
Once and For All Pt.２
Role: Director
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Role: Screenplay
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
Role: Director
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
Role: Screenplay
Gang vs. Gang
Role: Director
The Shogun's Vault
Role: Director
Oogonju
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Mother
Role: Assistant Director
Ginza Cosmetics
Role: Assistant Director
Secret Agent 101
No picture available
Role: Director
King of the Ring: The World of Glory
Role: Director
Broken Blossoms
Role: Writer
Broken Blossoms
Role: Director
Secret White Line Zone
Role: Director
Screwed
Role: Screenplay
Screwed
Role: Producer
The Shiinomi School
Role: Assistant Director
Queen Bee's Anger
Role: Director
Yokosuka Navy Prison
Role: Screenplay
Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1
Role: Director
Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2
Role: Director
Sexy Line
Role: Director
Sexy Line
Role: Writer
Yellow Line
Role: Director
Yellow Line
Role: Screenplay
Secret Agent 101
No picture available
Role: Screenplay
Flesh Pier
Role: Director
Flesh Pier
Role: Screenplay
All Rascals
Role: Screenplay
All Rascals
Role: Director
A Mother's Love
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Love Letter
Role: Assistant Director
Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
Role: Director
An Outlaw
Role: Screenplay
An Outlaw
Role: Director
Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
Role: Director
Omoide tsukiyo
No picture available
Role: Adaptation
Omoide tsukiyo
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
Role: Director
The Bullet and the Horse
Role: Director
The Tale of Jiro
No picture available
Role: Assistant Director
Flower, Storm and Gangster
Role: Director
Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
Role: Screenplay
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 2 - The Dish Mansion at Hell’s Banchô
Role: Director
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 6 - The Woman's Grudge Spirit Boat
Role: Director
Women of Whirlpool Island
No picture available
Role: Writer
Women of Whirlpool Island
No picture available
Role: Director
Eleven Gangsters
Role: Writer
Eleven Gangsters
Role: Director
G-Men in the Pacific
Role: Screenplay
G-Men in the Pacific
Role: Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Role: Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Role: Screenplay
Danguard Ace vs Insect Robot Army
Role: Director
The Shogun's Vault
Role: Screenplay
Killer's Hit List
Role: Director
Killer's Hit List
Role: Screenplay
The Boss
Role: Screenplay
Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
Role: Screenplay
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
Role: Screenplay
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Role: Director
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Role: Screenplay
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Role: Screenplay
Yakuza of the Present
Role: Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Role: Director
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Role: Screenplay
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Role: Director
Great Jailbreak
Role: Director
Death on the Mountain
Role: Screenplay
Yakuza Law
Role: Screenplay
Super Giant
Role: Director
Detonation: Violent Riders
Role: Director
Detonation: Violent Riders
Role: Writer
The Runaway Season
Role: Director
The Yellow Climate
Role: Director
Hot Springs Geisha
Role: Screenplay
The Bullet and the Horse
Role: Screenplay
Orgies of Edo
Role: Screenplay
Once and For All
Role: Screenplay
Once and For All
Role: Director
Black Line
Role: Screenplay
Great Jailbreak
Role: Screenplay
Mist and Shadows
Role: Director
Mist and Shadows
Role: Screenplay
Legends of Honor
Role: Director
Legends of Honor
Role: Screenplay
Storm Party
Role: Screenplay
Storm Party
Role: Director
Prison Tales
Role: Director
Villain Field
Role: Director
Villain Field
Role: Screenplay
Love and Crime
Role: Screenplay
300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations
Role: Screenplay
Horrors of Malformed Men
Role: Screenplay
Inferno of Torture
Role: Screenplay
Prison Tales
Role: Screenplay
The Boss
Role: Editor
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Role: Director
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
Role: Director
The Boss
Role: Director
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
Role: Editor
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
Role: Director
Fire Line
Role: Screenplay
Detonation! Violent Games
Role: Screenplay
Gensen-Kan Inn
Role: Screenplay
The Runaway Season
Role: Screenplay
Military Comfort Woman
Role: Screenplay
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
Role: Director
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
Role: Screenplay
The Executioner
Role: Screenplay
Blind Woman's Curse
Role: Screenplay
Japanese Hell
Role: Producer
Japanese Hell
Role: Screenplay
Hobo General
Role: Screenplay
Hobo General
Role: Director
Violent Fighters
Role: Screenplay
Violent Fighters
Role: Director
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
Role: Screenplay
Girl's Reform School
Role: Assistant Director
Defeat the Boss
Role: Director
Defeat the Boss
Role: Screenplay