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Ishii Teruo: King of Cult

Sexy Line

Ishii Teruo

Japan1961 82min 35mm B&W

Synopsis

Last episode of the Teruo Ishii's Line series. Sexy Line traces a lover who becomes a target of a corrupting crime organization for the crime his girlfriend committed. A female leading character, a pickpocket, is used as a tool of a criminal organization, but destiny puts them to reunite to investigate the prostitution business the organization is running. Social outcasts' journey to cripple down the organization creates suspense.

Diretor

Ishii Teruo

More vital than most men half his age, eighty-year-old Teruo Ishii continues to make films that witness their creator's colourful personality. Still best known for his series of Edo-era torture films from the late 60s, Ishii has worked in a vast range of genres in the course of his six-decade long career. From his early Super Giants films for Shin Toho, through his gang and biker films for Toei and his recent independently made ero-gro spectacles, his work has remained as youthful in spirit as the man who made them. Midnight Eye met up with Ishii at the Étrange Festival in Paris, which paid tribute to the man who is referred to at home as the King of Cult.