Teruo Ishii Movies

Japanese crime film

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets...

Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of...

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or...

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Japan-Hong Kong co-production.

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

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...

A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind....

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the...

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...