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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-03-23

Place of Birth

Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Teruo Yoshida

Biography

Teruo Yoshida is a prominent Japanese actor and singer best known for his extensive work in mid-20th-century Japanese cinema. Born on March 23, 1936, in Osaka, Japan, he went on to graduate from Ritsumeikan University before launching his entertainment career. Yoshida is most highly recognized for his close, long-lasting collaboration with legendary cult director Teruo Ishii. During the late 1960s, he became a signature leading man in Ishii's provocative and taboo-busting genre films.

Known for

An Autumn Afternoon

An Autumn Afternoon

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Shogun's Joy of Torture

Shogun's Joy of Torture

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Agito: Superpower War

Agito: Superpower War

In a world where people awaken to supernatural powers, one ordinary police officer Makoto Hikawa stands against this chaos.

Shogun's Ninja

Shogun's Ninja

The descendants of the legendary Fuma ninja clan face off against the Tokugawa shogun's family of Yagyu samurai as they kidnap women in the hopes of finding a concubine for the shogun

Orgies of Edo

Orgies of Edo

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.

Horrors of Malformed Men

Horrors of Malformed Men

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Yakuza Law

Yakuza Law

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.

Akitsu Hot Springs

Akitsu Hot Springs

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Destroyer Yukikaze

Destroyer Yukikaze

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

Once and For All

Once and For All

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.

Love and Crime

Love and Crime

Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.