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Ishii Teruo: King of Cult

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Ishii Teruo

Japan1998 85min 35mm Color

Synopsis

Following The Master of Gensenken Inn, Teruo Ishii turns to another manga of the Japanese manga god Yoshiharu Tsuge. A fledging cartoonist Tsube lives in a tiny apartment with his live-in girlfriend Kuniko for two years now. Unable to pay the rent, he is evicted. What's worse, tired of his incompetence, Kuniko cheats on him. Shocked and cornered, Tsube starts to wander around and vent out his anger.

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.