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

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

A reporter investigating a prostitution ring is framed for murder.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Mako Sanjô, Yôko Mihara, Junko Ikeuchi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A man meets a woman. He is wrongfully suspected for the murder of her lover. She is a pick-pocket who's involved in an organized crime against her will. They pursue the truth of the murder and the secret of the prostitution syndicate.

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

A collection of stories dealing with punishment towards women.

Actors : Eiji Wakasugi, Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Mitsuko Aoi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Hideo Kô, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Mizuhara did his time in jail for Boss Komori. Now that he is out, the old gang wants to say welcome back with a bullet.

Actors : Yukie Kagawa, Junko Maki, Sada Abe, Yoshi Katô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Ryûji Oki, Chiezô Kataoka, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Per aging chanbara star Katoaka's involvement, this leans more to the old-fashioned gangster film style/formula spilling over from Toei's 1950s heyday.