Legendary Toei director Teruo Ishii tells three stories of moral sickness set during Japan s prosperous Genroku era in this bloody follow-up to his sexploitation classic Shogun s Joy of Torture, and ...

Exploitation legend Teruo Ishii (Horrors of Malformed Men, Orgies of Edo) delivers one of his most extreme visions of violent eroticism in this, the sixth in his abnormal love series. Tattoos and ...

What was it about Teruo Ishii’s Horrors of Malformed Men that appalled Japanese audiences and compelled distributors to pull all prints from circulation for decades? Was it the rampant female nudity?

A pervasive sense of weirdness has long been one staple of Japanese horror cinema which, combined with their penchant for prurient erotica, can make for one incredibly strange trip. Horrors of ...

Film critics don't usually issue disclaimers, but one is in order, I think, before I launch into a review of Teruo Ishii's "Moju vs Issunboshi." Last year, I programmed a retrospective of Ishii's ...

Teruo Ishii was born on January 1, 1924 in Tokyo, Japan as Teruo Kitagawa. He was a director and writer, known for Horrors of Malformed Men (1969), Blind Woman's Curse (1970) and Yasagure anego den: ...

Female-led films continue to be a hot commodity, and that interest extends to the world of catalog titles, with 88 Films releasing Love & Crime, a lesser-seen effort from the strange and perverted ...

Movie reviewers come in two broad categories — the ones who try to write truthfully about films, even if the director is a best buddy, and the ones who let personal factors, such as the free lunch ...

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The comedy film IF starring Ryan Reynolds debuts, as well as The Strangers: Chapter 1 for horror movie lovers. Click to see all the films opening this weekend. John Krasinski shows versatility in his ...

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.