Akira Ishihama
Birthday: Born in 1935-01-29 in Tokyo, Japan
Deathday: 2022-07-26
Akira Ishihama, born on January 29, 1935, in Tokyo, Japan, was a distinguished actor known for his roles in Harakiri, Mobile Sheriff Jiban,"and Kamen Rider Black: Terrifying! The Phantom House of Devil Pass. He sadly passed away of natural causes on July 26, 2022 at the age of 87 in Saitama, Japan.
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超新星フラッシュマン
Character: Doctor Tokimura
In 1966, five infant children were kidnapped by an alien group known as the Alien Hunters for the Reconstructive Experiment Empire Mess, who wanted samples of humans from Earth to experiment on. The children were rescued by Mess' arch enemy, the Flash alien race, which took each one to a different planet of the Flash solar system for training. Each child was trained separately in a range of superpowers that will allow them to fight Mess, their bodies also adapted to the atmosphere of the Flash S...
機動刑事ジバン
Character: Seiichi Yanagida
Naoto detective Jiban fights for justice against Bioron and his evil plans to conquer the world....
特救指令ソルブレイン
Character: Eizo Kansaki
After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's...
古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Hidesuke Tsubaki
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江戸川乱歩の美女シリーズ
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Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective ...
鬼平犯科帳
Character: 中山茂兵衛
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes....
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Character: Chin
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police....
Kamen Rider Black: Terror! Demon Mansion at Devil's Pass
Character: Dr. Makino
The city of Yūbari in the Hokkaido prefecture has become a ghost town following the presence of Shadow Moon and his minions of Gorgom. Makino, a scientist working on Gorgom's top-secret robot experiment, escapes from the evil organization and returns to Tokyo, only to find out that his wife and daughter have been abducted. As Kamen Rider Black, Kotaro travels to Yubari to save Makino's family and liberate the town from Shadow Moon's evil grasp....
Harakiri
Character: Motome Chijiiwa
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, an...
Ayamariya Business
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1997 V-Cinema film....
The Snow Woman
Character: Yosaku
A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him....
Bridge
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A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story....
Day-Dream
Character: Kurahashi
While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office....
Boyhood
Character: First son
When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community....
Sincere Heart
Character: Hiroshi
A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar....
Youth of the Son
Character: Haruhiko
The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls....
Devil's Flute
Character: Toshihiko Shingu
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner....
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Character: Noboru, Ryoichi's brother
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails....
Flower Shop Curtain
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The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka....
Next Door to Happiness
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The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the father leaves with another woman, returns after he is rejected, and leaves again with the family's money....
Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue
Character: Daimon Kazamatsuri
Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists researching cures on diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the human body. The test subject is Shin Kazamatsuri, motorcycle racer son of Doctor Kazamatsuri. Unknown to them, their operation is funded by a syndicate group, who plan to use this research to have the bodies of men strengthened for their own gain—they have already been experimenting in the field of cyborg soldiers, to a less-than-successful attempt. Ho...
The Tattered Wings
Character: Ryo
A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense childhood sweetheart....
Fireworks Over the Sea
Character: Ippei Nagisa
A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced....
Onna no naka no akuma
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Drunkard's Paradise
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A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol....
Kaze no uchi so to
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Abduction
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The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large bags of money through downtown Tokyo as the media documents his every move. When the first old man almost dies from exhaustion, a second, and eventually a third elderly corporate fat cat is ordered to do the same. The police detective assigned to the case (Tetsuya Watari) and his younger partner (Masatoshi Nagase) are livid with indignation at this sor...
Daigaku kazoe uta senpai kōhai
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1962 Japanese movie...
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 8 - The Mysterious Cat Beauty Mansion
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Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series....
Farewell to Spring
Character: Kôzô Teshirogi
Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were....
Hanzaki Daimyojin, Gorosuke no uta
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1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada....
Woman Unveiled
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Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home....
The Rose on His Arm
Character: Masahiro Hase
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza....
Immortal Love
Character: Yutaka
The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a crippling injury, and then forced into marriage with him. In four more chapters, presented over three decades, their children undertake their own searches for love, while the parents try to make each other as miserable as possible....
Elegy of the North
Character: Mikio Hisada
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife....
Orgies of Edo
Character: Chokichi
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....
The Unbalanced Wheel
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A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
Case of the Disjointed Murder
Character: Mokubei Miyake
In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity......
The Waves
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Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival....
Towering Waves
Character: Henmi - a journalist
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto....
Suddenly, Like a Storm
Character: Dr. Yoshikawa
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo's behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki ...
Deluxe Salon Car Engagement Tour Murders
Character: Detective
Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The tour group is traveling in a luxurious coach to Lake Megami in the Tateshina Plains. On the way, they are disturbed to hear that Shirai, a hostess who was supposed to come along on the tour, has been murdered. And the next day, the body of Hasegawa, another tour member, is floating in Lake Megami......
Young Lovers
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The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding them, they find it very difficult to achieve happiness....
Aozora yoitsu mademo
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Tears
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A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover....
Danchizuma no sakebi
Character: Yuhei Mizoguchi
A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case....
Mother Country
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In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign cou...
Hold Me and Kiss Me
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Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira....
Storm on the Silvery Peaks
Character: Shigeru Ôta
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Dancing Girls of Izu
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A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An adaptation of the Kawabata Yasunari short story....
Henshin Mou Hitori No Watashi
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A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she can't stand the sarcasm of girls at the company witnesses a motorboat accident. However, the accident was treated as suicide......
The Days of Youth are Days of Sadness
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In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister and music lover Keiko (Misora), Keiko's classmate Sachiko (Ota Chieko) and her brother Shoji (Yamada) meet enthusiastically to brighten the town and help themselves grow. Ichiro's family lives with his father and Keiko in a milk shop, but Keiko's desire to go to music school is unlikely to be fulfilled. Meanwhile, Shoji's father is trying to get Shoj...