Ittoku Kishibe — Actor (69)

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A Boy Called H (2013)
少年H
other title: 少年H / 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)
共喰い IMDb TMDB
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)
町奉行日記 IMDb TMDB
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)
のんちゃん のり弁 IMDb TMDB
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)
平成無責任一家 東京デラックス WikiData IMDb TMDB
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)
悪霊の棲む館 TMDB
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)
一度も撃ってません WikiData IMDb TMDB
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)
The ショートフィルムズ/みんな、はじめはコドモだった IMDb TMDB
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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Lady Joker (2004)
レディ・ジョーカー IMDb TMDB
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.