Yūjirō Ishihara Movies

Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka.

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

A pure love melodrama movie.

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he...

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime...

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness.

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...

The first time that up-and-coming architect Yuji Muraoka (Yujiro Ishihara) met Natsuko (Ruriko Asaoka) was at a contemporary art exhibition at the...

Just before the final of the ski championships in Kanbayashi, Iba Shunsuke and Kito Tatsuo are hit by an avalanche. Kito Tatsuo's brother Yoichi is...

1962 Japanese movie

An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a...

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...

Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now...