Yūjirō Ishihara
Birthday: 1934-12-28
Place of Birth: Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Yūjirō Ishihara (石原 裕次郎, Ishihara Yūjirō, December 28, 1934 – July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.[1] His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the 1956 film Season of the Sun, based on a novel written by his brother. He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver cancer.
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,0...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoo...
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Incident at Blood Pass
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...
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Hawk of the Harbour
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harasse...
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Tenchu!
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...
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Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...
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Rebellion Reward
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a phot...
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I Am Waiting
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...
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Rusty Knife
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...
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Alone Across the Pacific
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to ...
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal ...
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Crazed Fruit
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, bo...
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Facing to the Clouds
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he...
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Shadow Hunters
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably no...
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I Hate But Love
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced To...
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Season of the Sun
The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes th...
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The Sands of Kurobe
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for th...
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The Day of Youth
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wi...
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Man Who Causes a Storm
Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him i...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father...
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The Wild Reporter
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed...
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I Shall Not Forget
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke'...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A...
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A Man Explodes
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One...
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Kill the Night Rose
An entertaining but silly and fairly forgettable action film with much tongue-in cheek James Bond in...
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The Harbor of No Return
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have ...
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Birth of a Jazz Maiden
Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has take...
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Safari 5000
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driv...
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A Bold Life
Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who ove...
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Black Strait
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new lif...
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre....
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Spartan Education
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a pl...
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A Man With Dragon Tattoos
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...
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Yujiro in Europe
Travelogue made by Yujiro Ishihara during the location shooting of his 1959 film Love and Death (Sek...
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Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countr...
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Showdown in the Red Valley
Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometow...
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Red Pier
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man di...
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A World For Two
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, bu...
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Harbor Rats
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller...
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A Slope in the Sun
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family ...
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Lunar Eclipse
A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ish...
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Man at the Bullfight
An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the pass...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the G...
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The Champion
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Cham...
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The Eagle and the Hawk
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. Af...
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Dice and Swords
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is ...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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A Warm Misty Night
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his belov...
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A Man's World
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. S...
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The Storm over Arabia
A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced e...
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My Sweetheart
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I...
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That Wonderful Guy
Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo....
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Song of the Underworld
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out....
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Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his j...
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That Guy and I
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, sh...
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Fresh Leaves
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's ...
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Challenge for Glory
A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best ...
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Fangs of Night
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friend...
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Man of a Stormy Era
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial c...
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Wait for Tomorrow
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his ...
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Dancing Sisters
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a smal...
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In Tears
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to ...
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Rainbow Over Kinmon
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising futu...
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The Baby Carriage
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her ch...
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Taking the Castle
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was...
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Crimson Wings
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, i...
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The Walking Major
U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan, gambli...
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at ...
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Again
An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie fol...
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Why Are We Young?
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a ...
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Showdown in the Storm
A lively coming-of-age movie about the activities of Mr. Yu-chan, a teacher who helps the weak and d...
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The Eternal Life
This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark...
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We Live Today
In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught ...
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Sunset Hill
A yakuza falls in love with his brother's mistress while he is serving his sentence, and hides out i...
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A Love that Wagers the World
The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaok...
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Arcadia of My Youth
Space captain Harlock, the latest in a family of proud aerial warriors, begins his journey to free t...
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Frozen River
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one...
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