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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Shin'ichi Chiba, Eiji Gô, Yutaka Nakajima, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A former police captain recruits a group of deadly murderers to remove the corrupt and mafia Yakuza . Their first task is to intercept a briefcase from a band that trafficked drugs.

Actors : Yôko Mihara, Ken Takakura, Naoki Sugiura, Jun Tazaki,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A strange episode with Takakura involved with horse-breeders and, at one point, getting revenge on at the guy who killed his Shetland pony.

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, 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 : Tôru Abe, Hashizô Ôkawa, Chiezô Kataoka, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A new prisoner arrives at a prison where the prisoners have their own obscene culture. There he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Ken Takakura, Naoki Sugiura, Hiroko Sakuramachi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Shin'Ichi returns home to visit his mother's grave. Upon returning he finds the mess that his previous reckless behavior left behind. His old boss, Asahi, was attacked after Shin'Ichi left and was forced to give up a lot of of his power.

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

One of maverick director Ishii's best pictures.