Takashi Ishii

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Takashi Ishii

Born July 11, 1946 · Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Died May 22, 2022 · aged 75

Takashi Ishii was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and manga artist. He has directed several pinku eiga erotic films, but his most notable feature was the 1995 crime thriller Gonin starring Takeshi Kitano.

Known For

Flower & Snake IIFlower & Snake II · 2005
Flower & Snake II
6.52005
MovieDramaThriller
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. His primary source of gratification involves observing his wife in sadomasochistic scenarios so he commissions a painter, skilled in the arts of bondage to bring these fantasies to life. Soon, Shiziko becomes a willing and submissive participant in fulfilling the S&M fantasies of not only her husband but a slew of rich lecherous men.
Sweet WhipSweet Whip · 2013
Sweet Whip
5.92013
MovieDramaCrime
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility treatment, but she also has another side.
Flower & SnakeFlower & Snake · 2004
Flower & Snake
5.72004
MovieDramaRomance
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave
The Girl and the Wooden Horse TortureThe Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture · 1982
The Girl and the Wooden Horse Torture
5.91982
MovieThrillerHorror
A seemly ordinary high school girl tormented by masochistic visions gets involved with a teacher who harbours a secret passion for her.
Angel Guts: Red PornoAngel Guts: Red Porno · 1981
Angel Guts: Red Porno
5.71981
MovieDrama
Nami is a department store worker who agrees to stand in for a friend in a magazine photo shoot, which turns out to be for an S&M magazine. When the photos are published, she is sacked and her lover abandons her…
Killing Angel MuhanKilling Angel Muhan · 1995
Killing Angel Muhan
7.01995
MovieActionCrime
The story follows Muhan, the female assassin introduced in 1985's Dream Crimes, who was originally based on Takashi Ishii's manga character (unlike in the movies, she's primarily a mahjong expert in the manga). After Muhan fails to kill a young girl during a hitjob, she begins to question her existence.
Angel Guts: Red ClassroomAngel Guts: Red Classroom · 1979
Angel Guts: Red Classroom
6.41979
MovieDrama
A porn magazine editor stumbles upon an amateur gang rape film and, struck by the girl's acting, decides to find her.
Angel Guts: Red VertigoAngel Guts: Red Vertigo · 1988
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo
5.91988
MovieDramaHorror
Nami is a nurse and the unwilling object of her patients' lust. When she is hit by a car whilst fleeing from the home of her unfaithful boyfriend, the driver of the car takes her as a sexual prisoner.

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The Brutal Hopelessness of LoveThe Brutal Hopelessness of Love · 2007
The Brutal Hopelessness of Love
8.52007
MovieDrama
Famous movie actress Nami is being interviewed by a magazine reporter about her new film in which the plot resembles her real life. Her actor husband Yosuke has an affair with a young actress Junko whereas in the movie, Nami acts as an actress whose husband has an extramarital relationship with a young girl, with Yosuke as the husband and Junko as the new girl friend. In the course of the interview, Nami falls into deep thoughts and flashbacks about her lascivious encounters with strangers in a night train, in the movie as in the reality. Despite whether her intention is to revenge her husband or to satisfy her own desires, Nami demonstrates bewitching charm in a series of intercourse with different men, positions and locations. Director Takashi Ishii attempts to explore female sexual psychology through perfect blends of aesthetic nudity and violence.

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