Cast: Yujiro Ishihara
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Yujiro Ishihara. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
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Direction Hideo Gosha
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukio Mishima · Yujiro Ishihara
Synopsis Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. He allies himself with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader, Takechi, and imagines that he has come up in the world. But Takechi makes...
6.9
143 votes
6.9
143 votes
Samurai Banners
1969 · Movie · 165 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yoshiko Sakuma · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yujiro Ishihara
Synopsis Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of...
6.8
65 votes
6.8
65 votes
I Am Waiting
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast Ken Hatano · Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Isamu Kosugi
Synopsis In Koreyoshi Kurahara’s directorial debut, rebel matinee idol Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a restaurant manager and former boxer who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her...
6.8
39 votes
6.8
39 votes
Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate
1957 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Yûzô Kawashima
Cast Frankie Sakai · Sachiko Hidari · Yôko Minamida · Yujiro Ishihara
Synopsis When man-about-town Saheiji (the beloved comedian Frankie Sakai) finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel, he is forced to remain there to work off his debt. However he finds his wit and resourcefulness enable him to...
6.8
86 votes
6.8
86 votes
Crazed Fruit
1956 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Ayuko Fujishiro · Taizô Fukami
Synopsis Spending their summer on an exotic beach, fall for the same beautiful girl. The brothers are part of a group of teenagers who congregate around their wealthy American friend. Things take a turn for the worse when each brother realizes...
6.7
149 votes
6.7
149 votes
Alone Across the Pacific
1963 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan
Direction Kon Ichikawa
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Masayuki Mori · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ruriko Asaoka
Synopsis A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary real-life story of one man’s obsessive quest to break free...
6.6
48 votes
6.6
48 votes
Rusty Knife
1958 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Toshio Masuda
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Shoji Yasui · Mari Shiraki
Synopsis Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema’s major hit makers. In the film, Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to...
6.3
29 votes
6.3
29 votes
Incident at Blood Pass
1970 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Inagaki
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Shintarô Katsu
Synopsis In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing shogunate gold...
6.2
58 votes
6.2
58 votes
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
1965 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Stuart Whitman · Sarah Miles · James Fox · Alberto Sordi
Synopsis In the early days of the 20th century, a British Newspaper offers a prize for the winner of a cross channel air race which brings flyers from all over the world. There are many sub-plots as the flyers jockey for...
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
5,000 Kilometers to Glory
1969 · Movie · 177 min. · Japan
Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Tatsuya Nakadai · Toshirô Mifune · Ruriko Asaoka
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Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Izumi Ashikawa · Jun Hamamura
Synopsis Ishihara Yujirō star vehicle directed by Nakahira Kō.
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Kinmontô ni kakeru hashi
1962 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Akinori Matsuo
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Wa Yan · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani
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Direction Toshio Masuda
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Masumi Okada · Sanae Nakahara
Synopsis 50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to...
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Red Handkerchief
1964 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan
Direction Toshio Masuda
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Hideaki Nitani · Nobuo Kaneko
Synopsis A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches...
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Direction Toshio Masuda
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jûshirô Konoe · Tamao Nakamura · Chieko Matsubara
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The Zero Fighter
1962 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Toshio Masuda
Cast Shinsuke Ashida · Mitsuo Hamada · Yujiro Ishihara · Hiroshi Kondô
Synopsis The stage is Solomon County Island at the end of WWII. Yujiro, who is dressed as a captain of the "rogue troops", left behind in the small islands, draws a way to lead the troops by a strong bond, eventually...
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Sea Bastards
1957 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Kaneto Shindô
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Kô Nishimura · Jerry Ito · Kunio Suzuki
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A Man's World
1971 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuharu Hasebe
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jô Shishido · Ryohei Uchida · Kenji Sugawara
Synopsis Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend’s death. She was killed for Gang’s boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
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Jazz musume tanjô
1957 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan
Direction Masahisa Sunohara
Cast Chiemi Eri · Yujiro Ishihara · Isamu Kosugi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi
Synopsis A humble street vendor from a small Japanese island who was abandoned by her father when she was very young has an innate talent for singing. Moved by the hope of succeeding in musical theater and also finding her father,...
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Arashi kitari saru
1967 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan
Direction Toshio Masuda
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Tamaki Sawa · Tatsuya Fuji
Synopsis A ninkyô yakuza story with what, probably for most squeamish westerners anyway, is a disturbing opening titles sequence. One of the many variations on a yakuza clan's sakazuki (sake cup exchange offering) involves the preparation of a still-alive fish to...
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