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Ishii Teruo: King of Cult

Abashiri Bangaichi

Ishii Teruo

Japan1965 88min 35mm B&W

Synopsis

Abashiri Bangaichi is part of one of the successful genre films in Japan and made Ken Takakura a big star. In these 18 episode-series that continued from 1965 to 1972, Teruo Ishii was able to produce "manly" works, while elaborating his own color. Abashiri Bangaichi inherited the two previous episodes and turned them into a series.

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.