Shinsuke Ashida
Birthday: 1917-03-14
Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介, Ashida Shinsuke, 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
Movies
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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City with Beasts
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm....
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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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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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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Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of t...
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Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the ...
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Never Give Up
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daugh...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknam...
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Homecoming
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her...
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Cell No. 8
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their bud...
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My Second Brother
The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a b...
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Take Aim at the Police Van
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....
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Funny Friend: The Baby and Express
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Toka...
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Red Angel
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the S...
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Spring Bell
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in N...
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Golden Partners
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth ...
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Cape Ashizuri
Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows t...
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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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Sun and Stars
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tal...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Go...
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Dancing Girls of Izu
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their fi...
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Lullaby of Death
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seek...
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Return of the Whirlwind
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza...
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The Setting Sun
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o...
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Wolves of the Night
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as th...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendshi...
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Everything Goes Wrong
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The...
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Underworld Beauty
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds h...
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Chivalrous Life
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the polic...
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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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Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countr...
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Passport to Darkness
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the ...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the crimina...
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Glowing Autumn
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Sa...
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Blood Type: Blue
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blu...
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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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Sea of Wandering
Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns...
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Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later...
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How Sorrowful
The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to ...
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Countryside Accountant's Government Reform
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his ser...
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Woman of the Lake
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man ...
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The Ghost of Iwojima
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper rep...
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Cry for Sorrow
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo....
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Autumn Interlude
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at ...
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Stakeout
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...
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Endless Desire
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
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Call from Darkness
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case i...
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Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the s...
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Keep Your Chin Up
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succe...
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Company Executives
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away....
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Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of ...
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Satan's Town
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their rela...
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Voice Without a Shadow
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to h...
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Mehyō to Narazu Mono
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new idea...
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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 Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest...
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Thirst for Love
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an adve...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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Love and Death
Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko....
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Oishinbo
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun...
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Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells ...
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yak...
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Darkness at Noon
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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A Thousand Suspects
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Y...
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Killer Sword
1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in...
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Kikenna onna
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper....
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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 Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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A Killer Without a Grave
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in hi...
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Skyscraper Murder Case
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a ju...
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The Shadow Within
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son in...
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But the Flesh is Weak
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage....
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The Human Cyclone
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of M...
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Tales of Ginza
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband...
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Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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Burden of Love
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a prog...
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Shichinin no keiji
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in ...
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Shutsugeki
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by To...
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Actress
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasin...
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Succession
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing i...
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Ai Sureba Koso
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" ...
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Sugata Sanshiro
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher rev...
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The Last Women
The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the America...
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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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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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Law of the Outlaw
Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pu...
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日本暴力地帯
The first directorial work of Kazuhiko Murakami, a master of gangster comics. Yano-gumi Wakato and K...
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Modern People
A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company...
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The Incorrigible
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as To...
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The Story of Jiro
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children....
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Mahiru no yūkai
A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn'...
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Kyukei no Koya
Based on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the heroine ...
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Covered Wagon
A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, t...
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Kyukei no Koya
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shi...
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Muhō Ichidai
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the la...
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Seven Detectives: Find the Woman
This is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series....
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Merciless Bullet
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night a...
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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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Pacific Porters
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Capta...
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The Politicians
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal m...
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Traveling Alone with a Guitar
Kobayashi Akira stars as a wandering musician, who lost his brother and lover to dishonest rival Hen...
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Gate of Flesh
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of th...
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Beneath the Gallows
Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, an...
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Wakai hyou no mure
A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the se...
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Tale on Kanto Chivalry
This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together w...
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