Teruo Yoshida

Teruo Yoshida

Acting

March 23, 1936
Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
64 movies

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.

🎬 Teruo Yoshida's Filmography

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Cave Queens

Rumi (Yoko Mihara) and Emi (Masayo Banri) are sisters who dance nightly at the Blue Moon cabaret, which happens be the headquarters of a drug ring. Offstage, Rumi captivates the gang boss, Iwahara (Shuntaro Emi); while Emi attracts the portly club manager, Yajima (Saburo Sawai). Meanwhile their older brother Shinichi (Ryo Kuromaru), a seaman, is unwittingly assisting Iwahara with his drug running. When Shinichi’s ship is sea-jacked by another drug gang, an outraged Iwahara suspects him of treachery and has him beaten and confined in a dungeon-like basement. Rumi and Emi try to free him, but a gang hitman discovers them - and their attempt ends in failure. Now under suspicion themselves, the girls try to escape, but luck goes against them and they are taken to an island where Iwahara and his crew plan to ambush the rival gang.

Cave Queens

1960
Tale of Scarlet Love

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.

Tale of Scarlet Love

1963
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