Teruo Ishii — Director (51)
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Violent Fighters (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
暴力戦士
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Tanaka / Masanori Machida …
other title: 暴力戦士
In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The plot is roughly the same as in The Warriors except this time the chased gang has to make it from Kobe to Tokyo and the leader's got the enemy's sister handcuffed to him. Hardly great cinema, but undeniably entertaining with frantic pacing, loads of music and even a massive roller blade street chase! As a vision of future, it wasn't too far off if the future was defined as 80s rock, bad fashion and comic book films.
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The Bullet and the Horse (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
網走番外地 荒野の対決
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Kanjūrō Arashi …
other title: 網走番外地 荒野の対決
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 convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
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Mist and Shadows (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
霧と影
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: 霧と影
A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region. In pursuit of the truth, they are led to a web of corporate fraud, an inbred village, bundles of toilet paper, and flatfoots with something to hide as the bodies pile up.
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Eleven Gangsters (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
暗黒街の顔役　十一人のギャング
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: 暗黒街の顔役　十一人のギャング
Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.
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Yakuza of the Present (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
現代任侠史
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Meiko Kaji …
other title: 現代任侠史
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region.