Renji Ishibashi — Actor (127)
Pretty Devil Yoko (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
非行少女ヨーコ
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Mako Midori / Hayato Tani
other title: Yôko, a delinquente / 非行少女ヨーコ
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here the first boyfriend.
Glorious Fights (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
地獄の掟に明日はない
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Ken Takakura / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: Il n'y a pas de lendemain dans les lois de l'enfer / 地獄の掟に明日はない
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Break Out (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
行き止まりの挽歌 ブレイクアウト
other title: 行き止まりの挽歌 ブレイクアウト
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he can't go any lower, he is suspended from the force for disregarding orders to halt his criminal investigation of a Congressman. However, even this setback won't stop the determined cop from getting to the bottom of the scandal.
Tokyo Blackout (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
首都消失
other title: 首都消失
Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome-shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
Slaughter in the Snow (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
無宿人御子神の丈吉 黄昏に閃光が飛んだ
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Yoshio Harada / Hajime Araki
other title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 黄昏に閃光が飛んだ
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?
The Homeless (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
無宿 やどなし
other title: 無宿 やどなし
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun (1983) [Movie] TMDB
地獄の左門十手無頼帖 将軍暗殺!
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Daijirō Harada / Mari Sato
other title: 地獄の左門十手無頼帖 将軍暗殺!
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch and about to be beaten up when he was saved by the quick thinking of a ferryman Sanji. The infiltration is the plan of Samon and chief elder Abe Isenokami, who has asked Samon to obtain smuggling evidence against shipping whole retailers Kawachiya Senemon and his son Sennosuke.
Jubaku: Spellbound (1999) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
金融腐蝕列島〔呪縛〕
director: Masato Harada actor: Koji Yakusho / Tatsuya Nakadai
other title: 金融腐蝕列島〔呪縛〕 / Spellbound
When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal that threatens to rock the entire structure of business and government to its core. While the bank's top executives continue to vacillate, a quartet of middle-management reformers, led by straight-arrow Kitano (Koji Yakusho), decide to stage a boardroom coup and install a new, clean management team. With the aid of a hotshot news anchor (Mayumi Wakamura) and a hard-nosed prosecutor (Kenichi Endo), heads begin to roll.
Play it, Boogie-Woogie (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
スローなブギにしてくれ
director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Atsuko Asano / Masato Furuoya
other title: Play It Boogie Woogie / スローなブギにしてくれ
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
The Abe Clan (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
阿部一族
other title: 阿部一族
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.
The Triple Cross (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
いつかギラギラする日
other title: Double Cross - Das Action-Massaker / Un jour étincelant
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
Crest of Betrayal (1994) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Koichi Sato / Saki Takaoka
other title: Histoire de fantômes à Yotsuya / 忠臣蔵外伝 四谷怪談
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.