Kenjirō Ishiyama
Birthday: 1903-10-09
Place of Birth: Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Kenjiro Ishiyama (石山 健二郎) was a Japanese actor. Born on 10 October 1903 in Hiroshima, Japan, he was known for High and Low (1963), Shiosai (1964) and Las Vegas Free-for-All (1967). He died on 10 May 1976.
Movies
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
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High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...
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Rogue
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining ...
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Three Generations of Yakuza
The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowin...
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his ...
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Shiosai
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But S...
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Vanished Enlisted Man
In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, wa...
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Sex and Life
Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all ...
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武蔵と小次郎
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeki...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine...
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi S...
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Wicked Priest
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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Prince of Wolves
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and l...
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Ootone no Taiketsu
In the town of Yumoto, Asakichi, a left-arm-less gambler who had been winning at the gambling hall, ...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....
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Kunisada Chūji
Kunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad govern...
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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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The Great White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at ...
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The Falcon Fighters
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Ka...
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Industrial Spy
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corpo...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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Nunnery Confidential
Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period....
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A Scarred Life
Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set abo...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red...
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Eddy Currents of Life
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature...
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Ghost of Kasane Swamp
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatam...
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On the Road Forever
A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the villa...
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The Chivalrous Life
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with...
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The Bad Boss
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weaken...
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Sworn Brothers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s th...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...
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Blackmail Is My Life
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by...
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Love and Crime
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa ...
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Art of Assassination
A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking t...
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The Angry Sword
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies....
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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The Sound of Waves
On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls ...
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The Symbol of a Man
A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict...
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Champion Woman Gambler
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where s...
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Game of Chance 3
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped th...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his B...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Kats...
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Tears of Banishment
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name....
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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Brave Red Flower of the North
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and change...
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The White Rose of Hong Kong
Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong ...
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Fountain of Love
Five young men have many financial troubles, but this only brings them closer together....
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Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess wit...
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures through...
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