Cast: Yujiro Ishihara

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Yujiro Ishihara. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Tenchu!

1969 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

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

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

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He and I

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

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

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Red Pier

1958 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

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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Shirotori

1965 · Movie · 134 min. · Japan

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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

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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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