Ittoku Kishibe
Birthday: 1947-01-08
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Biography: Ittoku Kishibe (岸部一徳) is a Japanese actor, bassist, and lyricist. He originally entered showbusiness as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands The Tigers, PYG, and Inoue Takayuki Band, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in 1991 for "The Sting of Death," and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994. He has an agency, UN et NEUF, and he is the president of Kenji Sawada's private office "Kokoro Co., Ltd."
Movies
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
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Kanashiki Tenshi
The body of a 59-year-old male is found on the banks of a river. The stepson, Kazuo, confesses to hi...
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Lady Joker
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are th...
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The Buried Forest
Three high school girls living out in the country build stories out from their local environment, mo...
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Sleeping Man
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care f...
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Ikiru
In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds...
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Violent Cop
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in dru...
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Living Rights
The fifth work of the "Kita-Shirakawa school movie" in which a student of Kyoto University of Art an...
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Séance
A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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The Makioka Sisters
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
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Vital
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook ful...
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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Kazuko Yoshiyama is a third-year junior-high-school student. One day, while cleaning the lab, she sm...
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Survive Style 5+
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resul...
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Hula Girls
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Ha...
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Lady Maiko
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed ...
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Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
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The Exam
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grad...
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Happy Flight
A variety of aviation professionals such as pilots, flight attendants, the ground crew, mechanics, d...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie
Hiroto Miyama works with rookie lawyer Honoka Kono on a team that specializes with criminal cases fo...
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I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinj...
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Confessions of a Teenage Mother
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in ...
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The Bleep Brothers
Tatsuo and Ikuo have been raised by hard-working parents who run a funeral home. For relief, they pr...
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Box: The Hakamada Case
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incar...
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Face
Awkward and withdrawn, Masako kills her sister in an explosion of pent-up humiliation and rage that ...
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Sword of Desperation
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a...
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Walking My Life
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovere...
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First Gentleman
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is...
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The Sting of Death
Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading,...
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Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer h...
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East Meets West
A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy ...
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69
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. Th...
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Aegis
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to...
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Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special
Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is s...
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The Oil-Hell Murder
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of...
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Beautiful Sunday
A droll and formalistic comic drama about the various relationships among, and odd obsessions of, th...
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Yoru no Agura: Ane to Ototo to Watashi
Akiko quit being a piano teacher and has been spending her days aimlessly without setting any goals ...
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It's All Right, My Friend
An alien with super powers fallen from the sky is befriended by some people who help him stop an evi...
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A Hardest Night!!
A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The...
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Maison Ikkoku
Based on a hit manga by Takahashi Rumiko, this is a romantic comedy about the relationship of Otonas...
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Maison Ikkoku Kanketsuhen
In this direct continuation of the earlier special, Godai tries to figure out what to do with his li...
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Someday
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's li...
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Nettai rakuen kurabu
Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the w...
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99.9 Criminal Lawyer: SP
The super unconventional lawyer is back! Our new friends are comic book girls! And the biggest enem...
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Vengeance for Sale
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying o...
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Pretty Woman
Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Ba...
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Black Jack
Matsuzaki, who gets critically injured after a sketchy deal, is taken by his girlfriend to a church ...
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Arashi Tatsunari
Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this st...
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House of Evil Spirits
A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night ra...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudat...
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I Want to Hear the Wind's Song
A heartwarming, based-on-true-story of how a hearing-impaired couple, Masahiro and Namiko, knew each...
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Loved Gun
A story about a hitman named Hayamada who carries a distinctive red gun. As the film progresses we d...
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The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a b...
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Another Battle
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza...
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Bokunchi - My House
A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentri...
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover a...
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Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhis...
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Hero
After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tok...
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MARKS
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When ...
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Backwater
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing...
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13 Assassins
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed sam...
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The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and...
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Disconcerto
Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada runs a "benriya" - a general problem solver fo...
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A Boy Called H
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh...
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GS Wonderland
"GS Wonderland" is about the 1960's Group Sounds bands - A Japanese pop movement inspired by the Bea...
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Keiho
The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be ...
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The 8-Tomb Village
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries ...
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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo ke...
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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he ...
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Chameleon
Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-art...
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Murder on D Street
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornogra...
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Samurai Gangsters
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his ...
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Circumstances
Youko and Harumi have been friends since youth as their life circumstances were similar. Youko ends ...
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an a...
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hom...
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Round About Midnight
While on a cigarette break in between sets, Koji, a jazz musician, witnesses a murder and runs into ...
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I Hate Tokyo
Natsumi (Kie Kitano) moves to Tokyo to enter a fine arts university. In Tokyo, Natsumi meets Ryosuke...
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The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omn...
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The Milkwoman
Minako (TANAKA Yuko), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk d...
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It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city o...
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Foujita
A biopic of seminal 20th century artist Leonard Foujita, a contemporary of Picasso and Modigliani, w...
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Botchan
Botchan (Kazunari Ninomiya) has sense of strong justice and does not lie. He is offered a teaching j...
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Tada's Do-It-All House
In Mahoro, the fictional suburb of Tokyo, Tada works as a general problem solver for hire. One day, ...
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The Human Trust
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from...
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Osaka Hamlet
A film about family life in Osaka. Following the death of their father, three boys struggle to find ...
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Rainbow Kids
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they pro...
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Doctor X: The Movie Final
The star-studded casts of the drama series come together for the highly anticipated movie adaptation...
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The Projects
Whether it's someone mixing burnables and recyclables or noise from a neighbor's domestic spat, ther...
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The Rocking Horsemen
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmeriz...
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Miss Lonely
Lonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously app...
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Many Happy Returns
A young man named Kazuo Takayama runs across a religious group whose founder cures an old woman in a...
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Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electr...
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AIBOU: The Movie II
The kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much muc...
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AIBOU: The Movie
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police...
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Dying at a Hospital
Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await d...
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TAP THE LAST SHOW
Shinjiro Watari, a former tap dancer, plays the lead as a dancer who is forced into retirement follo...
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Argentine Hag
After the death of her dearest mother, her serious-minded father goes missing, leaving their only da...
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Deaths in Tokimeki
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to ca...
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Double Bed
Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend...
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Recall
A woman was killed by a truck wheel, which flew off while the vehicle was in motion. As the freight ...
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Sure Death 5
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...
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Goodbye to Our Kindergarten
One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their t...
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The Tigers: The World is Waiting For Us
An alien spaceship crashes on Earth due to the powerful musical energy emanating from Group Sounds b...
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Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an...
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Lying to Mom
Suzuki Koichi, a 30-something hikikomori shut-in, allows his mother to dotingly tend to his needs. W...
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Adrift in Tokyo
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip acros...
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Hibi
Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She ...
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His Motorbike, Her Island
Ko, a motorbike enthusiast from the city wandering the Japanese countryside, falls for the carefree ...
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Before The Leaves Fall
An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the in...
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Sakura Guardian in the North
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri...
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We Are Not Alone
Businessmen competing for international building contracts in this globe-trotting comedy-adventure....
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Leaving the Scene
Shuichi is engaged to Sanae and they will marry soon. One day, Shuichi is driving a car and his frie...
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Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
Karin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her father di...
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The Ripples
Inako Natsui is a quiet, modern girl working in a laboratory and living a closed and somewhat monoto...
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Turning Point
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's ...
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Outrage Coda
Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss ...
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The Motive
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims app...
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Get Up!
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before...
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Samurai Kids
A special effects filled fantasy adventure, in which an 8-year-old boy encounters an ancient samurai...
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Futari no onna
After Emiko, a bookstore owner, is driven to suicide by loan sharks, her orphaned son Eisuke decides...
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People of Twilight
A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples g...
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The Pig's Retribution
A virginal boy travels with three hookers to a small island to collect his estranged father's washed...
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A Lavish Invitation
The Tigers, a rock band, escape their parents and teachers trying to forcibly cut their long hair, b...
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Song of Goodbye
It is the second work of the Oita trilogy of Obayashi . Following " Nigori Snow ", Ise Masazo draws ...
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Sure Death! 3
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assass...
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The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe
Depicts the life of Nagaharu Yodogawa....
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Noh Mask Murders
The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will su...
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Billiken
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...
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Goodbye for Tomorrow
People from all walks of life all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 mont...
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Ichigo domei
The story of a love triangle between two high school best friends and their cancer-stricken female c...
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Chizuko's Younger Sister
The Kitao family is coping with the loss of the eldest daughter, Chizuko, who was killed in a freak ...
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The Man Who Wipes Mirrors
Tsutomu Minagawa is set to retire; the organized business life, a perfectly normal family living in ...
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I Never Shot Anyone
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, ...
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Tokyo: Level One
Panic occurs when the Governor of Tokyo proposes to attract a nuclear power plant to Tokyo....
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The Tigers - Hi! London
The Tigers are much too busy to have a holiday; but one day a mysterious man appears in their dressi...
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Yume-Chiyo
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something c...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. H...
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Megumi no Sekai
A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is h...
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Flakes of Snow
A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love a...
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Kazu no Fūkei
Suspense TV movie based on the novel by Seicho Matsumoto, starring Ikko Furuya....
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Waiting in the Dark
A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Me...
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Tokyo Bordello
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest...
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Chicken Heart
Former boxer Iwano, teamed up with Sada and Maru, who live in the same apartment building, makes his...
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