Best movies of Teruo Ishii

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Teruko Yumi, Yukie Kagawa, Mitsuko Aoi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hoki Tokuda, Hideo Sunazuka, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The head of a yakuza gang is being trailed by a mysterious, vengeful blind woman.

Actors : Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Actors : Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A nihilistic ronin joins the immoral Bohachi clan, which intends to take control over the local prostitution industry.

Actors : Minoru Ôki, Bunta Sugawara, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Hiroshi Miyauchi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Actors : Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Hisayoshi Hirayama, Little Frankie,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Monzo Kobayashi is a dime-novel writer. He goes to see the stage of Ranko Mizuki, a star of an all-girls'-operetta company known as Asakusa Revue. Monzo notices a creepy man sitting beside ...

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Reiko Mikasa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The Joy of Torture is an anthology that is made up of three separate stories that all intersect: The first segment is about Shinza who was hurt while working when a log hit him on the head,...

Actors : Kazuhiko Kanayama, Tadanobu Asano, Yûko Fujimori, Miki Fujitani,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist, Tsube (Asano), started to live with Kuniko (Fujitani) casually in a small apartment. They are in the depths of poverty and can no longer...

Actors : Mutsumi Fujita, Michiko Maeda, Hisayoshi Hirayama, Yôko Satomi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A frenzied cult classic by Teruo Ishii, the Japanese master of all thing taboo. 16 year old Rika wants to leave a murderous cult but she is sent to Hell where she meets demons and souls who...

Actors : Tôru Abe, Ken Takakura, Tetsurô Tanba, Kôji Nanbara,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Shinichi is a good guy serving three years and approaching the end of his time. He escapes handcuffed to dangerous Gunda, who instigated the escape. Thus tethered, they start out on a journey across the desolate snow country of Hokkaido.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Yumiko Katayama, Asao Koike,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed...

Actors : Yôko Mihara, Kyôko Katsura, Shigeru Amachi, Toshio Hosokawa,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A reporter investigating a prostitution ring is framed for murder.

Actors : Nana Kinomi, Eiji Gô, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

One of maverick director Ishii's best pictures.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Mie Hanabusa, Yukie Kagawa, Masumi Tachibana,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy ...

Actors : Kemi Ichiboshi, Yukie Kagawa, Mari Iwai, Masako Arisawa,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.

Actors : Nana Kinomi, Eiji Gô, Bunta Sugawara, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri Prison.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Michiko Ai, Masumi Tachibana, Toyozô Yamamoto,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A collection of stories dealing with punishment towards women.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Mako Sanjô, Yôko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women.

Actors : Kôichi Iwaki, Masami Kuwajima, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.