Teruo Ishii
Director · 90 credits · 16 in highly-rated films
Best known for The Executioner (1974)
Frequent collaborators: Akira Miwa, Nagayoshi Akasaka
Best Teruo Ishii movies by genre
Directed movies (89 total, ranked by score)
1The Executioner
1974 · ★ 6.6 (27 votes)
Action
2Love and Crime
1969 · ★ 7.2 (10 votes)
Crime, Drama, Horror
3Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1964
Action, Crime
4Female Yakuza Tale
1973 · ★ 6.1 (40 votes)
Action, Crime, Drama
5Legends of Honor
1963
Crime
6Great Jailbreak
1975 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)
Action, Crime
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Women of Whirlpool Island
1960 · ★ 6.1 (9 votes)
Crime
8Broken Blossoms
1959 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)
Drama, War
9Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
1973 · ★ 6.6 (34 votes)
Action
10Shogun's Joy of Torture
1968 · ★ 5.6 (38 votes)
Horror, Drama
11Flesh Pier
1958 · ★ 5.0 (3 votes)
Crime
12The Legend of Kentauros
1987
Animation, Action, Drama
13Fight to the Death in a Blizzard
1959
Crime, Adventure, Thriller
14Violent Fighters
1979
Action, Drama, Crime
15Detonation: Violent Riders
1975 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)
Action
16Orgies of Edo
1969 · ★ 5.8 (25 votes)
Drama, Thriller, Horror
17Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
1965
Action
18Yakuza Law
1969 · ★ 6.1 (17 votes)
Action, Crime, Drama
19Detonation! Violent Games
1976 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)
Action, Drama
20Once and For All
1967
21Secret White Line Zone
1958 · ★ 1.0 (2 votes)
Crime
22Yellow Line
1960 · ★ 7.0 (3 votes)
Crime
23G-Men in the Pacific
1962 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)
Crime
24Storm Party
1964
25Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
1965 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)
Action, Crime, Comedy
26Gang vs. Gang
1962 · ★ 7.0 (2 votes)
Crime
27The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
1974 · ★ 5.5 (18 votes)
Action, Comedy, Crime
28Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
1966
Crime
29Killer's Hit List
1970 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)
30The Bullet and the Horse
1966
Crime
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.