Isao Hashizume
Birthday: 1941-09-17
Place of Birth: Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Isao Hashizume (橋爪 功, Hashizume Isao, September 17, 1941) is a Japanese actor from Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, who is affiliated with the theatre group Enkikaku (円企 画).
Movies
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside ...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a ...
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Oshûkatsu
Shinichi and Chikako Ohara have been married for 50 years. After Shinichi retired from his job, he h...
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Revolver LILY
In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. The...
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The Political Game
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. No...
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Ri Kôran
Tells the story of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese woman born and raised in China during the Japanese ...
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I Wish
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorc...
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The Eternal Zero
A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World W...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon ha...
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The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor
Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a...
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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 Negotiator: The Movie
¥ 260,000,000 is stolen from armored vehicle. The criminals escape into a crowded shopping mall and ...
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The Silent Service
Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and...
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The Yoshida School
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting...
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Time Lost, Time Found
A woman is forced to choose between her unborn child or medical treatment for re-occuring breast can...
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I Don't Have a Grave!
An actress visits a university hospital for research and mistakenly believes she has only six months...
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Dreaming of the Meridian Arc
In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga dram...
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Future Memories: Last Christmas
Yuko dreams of being a best selling children's author, but as an adult she has made little progress....
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Ryoma's Wife, Her Husband and Her Lover
Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him...
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Tears for You
A love story about two step-siblings, Yota and Kaoru. Long ago, Yota's mother married Kaoru's jazz-p...
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Isao Takahata and His Tale of The Princess Kaguya
For his first film in fourteen years, animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually sumptu...
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Railways
A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and ...
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O-higara mo yoku, go-shusho sama
While Kazuo Tanaka eagerly practices his greetings for the big wedding the next day, his first as a ...
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Tokyo Family
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and ...
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Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean
A drama set during World War II where a submarine carrying a secret weapon attempts to stop a planne...
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Boat to the Moon
At a small station in a very small town somewhere in Japan, a woman with eyes as beautiful as the sk...
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High and Low
At a crucial point in his business life, executive Gondo learns that his son has been kidnapped and ...
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Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the As...
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City Hunter
An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance wi...
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Time Never Stops
A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and...
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Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion
In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home...
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On ...
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Kitchen
Mikage, a young woman who loses her parents when young. She grows up in a lonely household with her ...
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World Famous Fairy Tale Series
A Japanese anime series of short films based on fairy tales and classic stories, produced by Toei An...
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What a Wonderful Family!
A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what ...
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The Little House
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discover...
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her...
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The Third Murder
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what trul...
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After the Storm
Ryota is an unpopular writer although he won a literary award 15 years ago. Now, Ryota works as a pr...
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Fa...
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Prison Break
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cel...
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Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acqu...
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Toki no kagayaki
Yuka came to work as an intern nurse at a hospital and she met Shunichi again. They were school frie...
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Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical cr...
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The Lady in a Black Dress
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar mas...
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What a Wonderful Family! 3
At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one aftern...
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The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko...
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Pro Bono
A young, mentally retarded boy is wrongfully accused of murder, but his family lacks the means to hi...
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What the War Meant
The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during Wo...
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapid...
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Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter
Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when ...
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Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel
The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his...
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Seeing with the Heart
Content with his perfect life, Yoshinori Arai’s eyesight starts to fail and he despairs. How will he...
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Organ
Set towards the end of World War II, Kaede Itakura, who leads kindergartners, and Mitsue Nonomiya, w...
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Love Letter
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukem...
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4.50 from Paddington
Toko Amano worked as a detective, but to take care of her sick husband she quit her job. After her h...
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Housekeeper the Peeper
Nobuko Sawaguchi is a surly, unattractive housekeeper in her mid-thirties. However, in actuality, sh...
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Tsuyoki ari
Based on the novel "Tsuyoki Ari" by Seicho Matsumoto In her past, Isako Sawada ran a restaurant. She...
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Shunichi Doba Suspense Deviation ~First Investigation Division/Keiji Sawamura~
Sawamura Keiji (Sorimachi Takashi) of Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s First Investigative Division, wh...
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Our Stardust Dance
A drab middle-aged man with thoughts of committing suicide and an extraordinary child prodigy plan a...
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Space Battleship Yamato
In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by th...
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A Desirable Marriage
A human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter ove...
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Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
Nanami Ishikawa works as an editor at a publishing company. She travels Hiroshima to go after her fa...
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The Great War of Archimedes
It is the early 1930s and the command of the Japanese Imperial Navy determines to construct the worl...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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A Thousand and One Nights
Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through ...
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A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light
Film distributed by ATG....
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A Samurai's Sorrow
A rare grouping of the three Tamura brothers, Masakazu, Takahiro, and Ryu highlight this exciting ta...
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Under the Open Sky
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 y...
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Father of the Bride
The story is set against the beautiful scenery of Yamakoshi, Niigata, which is also known for bullfi...
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To Shoot Without Shooting
Ji Chang wants to be the best archer in the world. He seeks out a master who is able, at a distance,...
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Baian the Assassin
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona i...
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Ghost Pub
One night, as pub owner Sotaro is caring for his sick wife, Shizuko, she asks him to promise that if...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highl...
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The Return
Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation ...
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Mr. Rookie
Ohara Koji is no ordinary Rookie. He is the Hanshin Tigers' secret weapon. Who would have thought th...
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Air Girl
Komari Sano's parents ran a small Tokyo factory that manufactured aircraft parts. With her parents' ...
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Summer Secrets
Two high school girls get mixed up in murder while investigating the disappearance of a classmate....
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Samurai Sensei
Hanpeita Takeichi, a samurai, finds that he has travelled through time to modern-day Japan. He's tak...
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Shin Kyoto Meikyu Annai SP
Twenty-five years after Tajima, an unfairly treated office worker, filed a lawsuit for the company's...
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Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows
Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the firs...
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A Thousand Year Song of Baobab
A documentary film taking up the long-living giant Baobab trees as its theme. It is shot by photogra...
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Graveyard of Masks
In a struggling small theater troupe, director Inuo pressures an actor to perform a death role with ...
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The Last Town We Saw
The narrative centers on Taichi Tamiya, a television scriptwriter living in modern-day Tokyo with hi...
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The Bonds of Clay
Ryusei Takahashi is a young potter in Tobe, Ehime Prefecture, who pursues his own style. He takes pa...
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Samurai Detective Onihei: Lawless Love
A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...
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Samurai Detective Onihei: One Last Wish
Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...
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The Tales of Kurashiki
When Aoi and Kiichi, high schoolers in Kurashiki city, come across their friend Beniko trying to cal...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundre...
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Samurai Detective Onihei: Dangerous Mercy
Juzo Ono, a subordinate of Matsumoto Heizo. (yakunin government official) Ono Juzo finds himself tor...
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Samurai Detective Onihei: True Master
The story follows detective Heizo, played by Koshiro Matsumoto, who investigates Tanbei Chigashira, ...
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Tange Sazen
One of Japan's favorite sword stars, Fujita Makoto, returns as the legendary Tange Sazen, the one-ey...
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Castle of Sand
This drama adaptation follows the original work's historical setting and is told from Yoshimura's pe...
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Good News
When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatch...
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