Hisashi Igawa — Actor (47)
Dreams (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban
8.0 (10 ratings) director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Akira Terao / Mitsuko Baisho
other title: Sogni / Sonhos de Akira Kurosawa
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Midnight Diner 2 (2016) [Movie] Douban
続・深夜食堂
director: 松冈锭司 actor: 小林薰 / 河井青叶
other title: 深夜食堂2 / 続・深夜食堂
小小的深夜食堂,迎来送往这个喧嚣都市内奔波疲惫的人们。他们漫无目的,或者迷失方向,却往往不经意间在这个蕞尔角落找到前行的希望。每当在工作中遇到烦心事,赤冢范子(河井青叶 饰)便穿着丧服在大街上游荡。偶然机缘,她在葬礼上结识了一名男子(佐藤浩市 饰),干涸的心田便为爱情所滋润。经营荞麦面生意的高木圣子(木村绿 饰)与儿子清太(池松壮亮 饰)相依为命,清太和年龄长于自己的木村纱织(小岛圣 饰)相恋,而一直与圣子好姐妹相称的圣子却全不知情。年逾古稀的老太太夕起子(渡边美佐子 饰)被诈骗电话骗到了东京,食堂的热心人们担心她的钱被人骗走,老奶奶则不以为意。这趟前来,她仿佛有个未了的心愿。
本片根据同名漫画改编,为同名深夜剧的第二部电影版。
Star Reformer (2006) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb
県庁の星
director: 西谷弘 actor: 织田裕二 / 柴崎幸
other title: 星级大改造 / 県庁の星
Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big prefecture project. This project is very big, so success of this personnel exchange training will probably determine his career. Nomura goes to a supermarket called "Mantendo".
The Loss of Humanity (1994) [TV] TMDB IMDb
人間・失格~たとえばぼくが死んだら~  
actor: Hisashi Igawa / Shuji Kashiwabara
other title: 人間・失格~たとえばぼくが死んだら~  
Three tales raise unsettling questions about the central qualities of being human. In one, a father is torn between love for his son and the desire for revenge, while a second examines the twisted love of a teacher for his female colleague. The third story delves into the complex affections hidden within a bully.
Harakiri (1962) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
切腹
9.2 (11 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Akira Ishihama
other title: Haraquiri / 切腹
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The senior counselor for the Iyi clan questions the ronin’s resolve and integrity, suspecting Hanshirō of seeking charity rather than an honorable end. What follows is a pair of interlocking stories which lay bare the difference between honor and respect, and promises to examine the legendary foundations of the Samurai code.
Villain (2010) [Movie] TMDB WikiData Douban IMDb
悪人
director: Lee Sang-il actor: Eri Fukatsu / Satoshi Tsumabuki
other title: Akunin / 悪人
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is shattered one day when he is involved in the murder of one of his former encounters, the sweet-faced Ishibashi Yoshino who, after being jilted by playboy Masuo Keijo, berates and mocks the troubled loner.
Cash Calls Hell (1966) [Movie] TMDB
五匹の紳士
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Hisashi Igawa
other title: 五匹の紳士 / Le Sang du damné
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
Tampopo (1985) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
タンポポ
7.9 (7 ratings) director: Jūzō Itami actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Nobuko Miyamoto
other title: タンポポ
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.
Three Outlaw Samurai (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
三匹の侍
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Isamu Nagato
other title: Tre samurai fuorilegge / 三匹の侍
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Boiling Point (1990) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
3-4X10月
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Yûrei Yanagi / Yuriko Ishida
other title: Boiling Point - I nuovi gangster / 3-4X10月
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Rhapsody in August (1991) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
八月の狂詩曲
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Sachiko Murase / Hidetaka Yoshioka
other title: Rapsodia in agosto / 八月の狂詩曲
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Pitfall (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
おとし穴
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Hisashi Igawa / Sumie Sasaki
other title: Le Traquenard / La trampa (The Pitfall)
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
The Wolves (1971) [Movie] TMDB
出所祝い
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Noboru Andō
other title: 出所祝い / Les Loups
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
Madadayo (1993) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB
まあだだよ
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Tatsuo Matsumura / Kyōko Kagawa
other title: Madadayo - Il compleanno / まあだだよ
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) [Movie] TMDB Douban
八つ墓村
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Mayumi Ogawa
other title: 八つ墓村 / Village of the Eight Tombs
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
Dodes'ka-den (1970) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb
どですかでん
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Yoshitaka Zushi / Kin Sugai
other title: どですかでん / Dodeskaden - O Caminho da Vida
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
Bullet Ballet (1998) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
バレット・バレエ
director: Shinya Tsukamoto actor: Shinya Tsukamoto / Kirina Mano
other title: バレット・バレエ / 子弹芭蕾
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.