Ittoku Kishibe — Actor (63)
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A Boy Called H (2013) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
少年Ｈ
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Yutaka Mizutani / Tatsuki Yoshioka …
other title: 少年Ｈ
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled with curiosity and a sense of justice. Based on the autobiographical novel "Shonen H" by Kappa Senoh (published by Kodansha, July 9, 1999).
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Backwater (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
共喰い
director: Shinji Aoyama actor: Masaki Suda / Misaki Kinoshita …
other title: 共喰い
Toma lives in a small riverside town with his brutish father and his father's girlfriend. Witnessing his father's predilections for abuse, Toma becomes anxious that he will have inherited those urges.
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
町奉行日記
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Ken Watanabe / Kimiko Ikegami …
other title: 町奉行日記
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
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Noriben - The Recipe for Fortune (2009) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
のんちゃん のり弁
director: Akira Ogata actor: Manami Konishi / Yoshinori Okada …
other title: のんちゃん のり弁
Komaki is a thirty-something woman that has had it with her perpetually unemployed aspiring writer husband. Following the divorce, she moves back to her Tokyo-area hometown of Kyojima along with her young daughter, Non-chan. However, she has a difficult time making ends meet in big city Tokyo. Her solution? Take a chance and try opening her very own bento (lunch box) shop.
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Heisei Irresponsible Family: Tokyo de Luxe (1995) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
平成無責任一家 東京デラックス
director: Yōichi Sai actor: Goro Kishitani / Moeko Ezawa …
other title: 平成無責任一家 東京デラックス
The members of the Ameya family are all scammers. After their election scheme goes bust in their hometown, they move from Shikoku to Tokyo and resume their fraudulent activities. Everything carries on smoothly until the eldest and the fourth sons' modus operandi go awry, the mother's lover runs off with another woman, and disasters strike one after another. This film is a collaboration between Yoichi Sai and Goro Kishitani following "All Under the Moon." The family business of the Ameya family is defrauding people. The matriarch, who keeps getting married and divorced, has five children with different fathers. The Ameya family chases after fortune and leaves a trail of trouble on their path.
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House of Evil Spirits (1980) [Movie] TMDB
悪霊の棲む館
director: Kazuyoshi Yoshikawa actor: Junko Natsu / Takenori Murano …
other title: 悪霊の棲む館
A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night radio music program, discovers a strange letter among a pile of postcards. It was a letter written in the style of a 5 or 6-year-old child, beginning with, "Mom, I am in a dark and cold world right now." Saiko is shocked. That letter was a letter from her own child, whose father was Kazuo Yamazaki, whom Saiko had fallen in love with six years ago when they were trainees at a certain theater company, and who had sprouted in Saiko's womb but passed away without being born...
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I Never Shot Anyone (2020) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
一度も撃ってません
director: Junji Sakamoto actor: Renji Ishibashi / Michiyo Yasuda …
other title: 一度も撃ってません
Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu Ichikawa, an obsolete writer with no manuscript at all, had another face - a legendary hitman. But the truth of the matter is... he had never shot a person. One day, he receives a murder request from a friend. Seeing this as an opportunity to achieve the ideal hard-boiled novel, he decides to hire a real hitman and demands that he report to him the assassination situation as it was.
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The Short Films: We Were All Once Children (2008) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The ショートフィルムズ／みんな、はじめはコドモだった
director: Yōichi Sai / Kazuyuki Izutsu … actor: Kirin Kiki / Haruomi Hosono …
other title: The ショートフィルムズ／みんな、はじめはコドモだった
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been created. "The Short Films: We Were All Once Children." The theme that runs through the five short films is "children." The styles vary from period dramas to contemporary daily life scenes, but all of the works highlight the dreams of children, who are entrusted with Japan's future, as well as the issues facing the social system surrounding children. ©ABC Television
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The Whispered City (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ざわざわ下北沢
director: Jun Ichikawa actor: Yoshio Harada / Tomoko Kitagawa …
other title: ざわざわ下北沢
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
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Lady Joker (2004) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
レディ・ジョーカー
director: Hideyuki Hirayama actor: Satoshi Tokushige / Tetsuya Watari …
other title: レディ・ジョーカー
Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.