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.
Evil Dead TrapEvil Dead Trap · 1988
Evil Dead Trap
★ 6.01988
MovieHorrorThriller
A talk show hostess takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.
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
GoninGonin · 1995
Gonin
★ 6.61995
MovieActionCrime
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers.
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…
Black Angel 2Black Angel 2 · 1999
Black Angel 2
★ 6.91999
MovieActionCrime
Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the way. It's none other than Yamambe, who once rescued Mayo from a rape and has lived in her heart since then.
Black AngelBlack Angel · 1998
Black Angel
★ 6.41998
MovieActionThriller
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained absolute power by executing the former boss and marrying his daughter, Chiaki. Only the mysterious Ikko, Chiaki's half-sister threatens him. Inspired by a legendary hit-woman, Ikko calls herself the Black Angel and plans to wash away her father's murderer with a deluge of blood.

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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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