Screenplay: Shintaro Ishihara

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Kaga · Takashi Fujiki · Chisako Hara

Plot Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman...

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni

Plot Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Hatano · Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Isamu Kosugi

Plot 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...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Keizo Kawasaki · Ayako Wakao · Yosuke Irie

Plot Katsumi is a university student who has no respect for his hardworking parents, his professors, or even his friends. One night after a celebration, he drugs and rapes Akiko, a...

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Ayuko Fujishiro · Taizô Fukami

Plot 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...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Shima Iwashita · Sayoko Ninomiya · Haruko Sugimura

Plot Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Haruo spends his time working in a university hospital when he...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Shoji Yasui · Mari Shiraki

Plot 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...

Direction Taku Shinjo

Cast Toru Emori · Katsutaka Furuhata · Ichiro Hashimoto · Masatô Ibu

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Akira Nitta · Shima Iwashita · Hosei Komatsu · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot A young man returns to the island where he was held prisoner as a child. He was sent to the island as a boy so he could not reveal the...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Makiko Aoi · Tomio Aoki · Akemi Ebata · Jun Hamamura

Plot While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Sachiko Hidari · Hiroshi Kondô · Mari Shiraki

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Izumi Ashikawa · Mari Shiraki · Tomio Aoki

Plot The Perfect Game is a shockingly amoral tale of delinquency, rape, and murder that was to Japan, what In Cold Blood was to American cinema. College students come up with...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Akira Takarada · Reiko Dan · Michiyo Aratama · Mitsuko Kusabue

Plot After a car accident in downtown Tokyo, a boxing champion is photographed as he is giving mouth-to-mouth to Mieko, a high-school girl who has fainted. The photo shocks the city.

Direction Takumi Furukawa

Cast Yôko Minamida · Hiroyuki Nagato · Yujiro Ishihara · Ko Mishima

Plot The generation-defining masterpiece penned by Akutagawa Prize-winning author Shintaro Ishihara proved to be Nikkatsu’s first crossover hit. This Sun Tribe film details the frequently scandalous whims of two listless postwar...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yumi Shirakawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Fubuki Koshiji

Plot Story of an ex-sailor (Tsuruta), caught up in a murder mystery involving gold dust buried in Manchuria, while romancing a woman (Shirakawa) whose father may be the center of the...

Direction Takeshi 'Ken' Matsumori · Masahiro Takase · Susumu Kodama · Yasuki Chiba

Cast Yosuke Natsuki · Yôko Fujiyama · Daisuke Kato · Yu Fujiki

Plot TV series (1965-1966). 41 episodes.

Direction Setsurô Wakamatsu

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Reiko Takashima · Mikihisa Azuma · Makiko Esumi

Plot About the life of the famous Ishihara brothers, one is a former mayor of Tokyo and the other one is a well known actor. This is a very detailed biography,...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Shintaro Ishihara · Chieko Nakakita · Akira Takarada

Direction Yoshinobu Nishizaki

Plot In the year 2220 A.D., the Earth Federation launches a plan to evacuate Earth when discovering that a travelling black hole capable of destroying anything in its path is on...