
January 1, 1924 · 102 years old
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…

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.

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

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

Two highly skilled tattoo artists clash as the demand for tattooed geishas rises to satisfy European clients.

A collection of stories dealing with punishment toward women.

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.

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 pay the rent. As a result, they are forc...

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 him who keeps his head slumped down and d...

A killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. He then seeks revenge against the people who employed him.

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 syndic...

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 entertainment through the evening followe...

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.