Ittoku Kishibe — Actor (34)
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
時をかける少女
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Ryôichi Takayanagi
other title: 時をかける少女 / The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has the power to travel through time.
The Milkwoman (2005) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
いつか読書する日
director: Akira Ogata actor: Yuko Tanaka / Ittoku Kishibe
other title: いつか読書する日
Minako (Yuko Tanaka), begins her day running up and down the hills of her hometown delivering milk door to door. When that's done, she heads to her day job as a supermarket cashier. Minako is 50 and single. In one of the houses to which she delivers milk is a man with whom she has secretly been in love since high school. The man, Keita (Ittoku Kishibe), lives with his wife Yoko, who is terminally ill. Caring for her at home, he works in the children's affairs section of the local municipal office. Though he insists that he wants nothing more than an "ordinary" existence, his life is in turmoil below the surface. The director uses a variety of narrative devises to portray the loneliness, isolation, and hope of these people who have seemingly allowed their goals and dreams to slip away, whilst keeping them agonizingly close to hand.
Happy-Go-Lucky (1997) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
夏時間の大人たち
director: Tetsuya Nakashima actor: Hidaka Yoshitomo / Nagi Noriko
other title: 夏時間の大人たち
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover around a horizontal bar. Their gym teacher warns them: they have one week to succeed; if they resign now, then, tomorrow, facing life difficulties, they will always run away and become bums.
Violent Cop (1989) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
その男、凶暴につき
director: Takeshi Kitano actor: Takeshi Kitano / Maiko Kawakami
other title: Violent cop / その男、凶暴につき
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.
War of Traps (2023) [TV] NeoDB TMDB
罠の戦争
actor: Tsuyoshi Kusanagi / Haruka Igawa
other title: 罠の戦争
Parliamentary secretary Toru Washizu (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) has devoted 20 years of his life to Kosuke Inukai, a member of parliament and cabinet minister. Toru works behind the scenes as Inukai's "shadow," deftly handling the petitions of Inukai's supporters and crushing any hint of scandal. Cool and collected, Toru rarely betrays emotion and would humble himself to anyone to get what Inukai needs. But then a shocking event changes everything. Toru's only son, Taiki, is gravely injured in an accident that leaves him close to death. Toru is stricken with worry and fear for his son, but Inukai orders him to conduct a cover-up. Feeling betrayed, Toru, who once would have done anything for Inukai, begins to question everything.
Iryu: Team Medical Dragon (2006) [TV] IMDb TMDB WikiData
医龍-Team Medical Dragon-
actor: Kenji Sakaguchi / Teppei Koike
other title: 医龍-Team Medical Dragon- / Iryu - Team Medical Dragon
Ryutaro Asada was the chief surgeon of Team Medical Dragon, a globally active emergency medical care team that worked in refugee camps. After his return to Japan, this amazingly talented surgeon starts work at a university hospital, where he uncovers one case of corruption after another and takes on a lot of powerful contenders in this heroic drama. The struggles between the hospital and the patients, the infighting among the hospital staff, and the patients who get involved in those struggles are all depicted in a realistic manner in a drama that has an overwhelming feeling of speed. Here’s a human drama depicting a thrilling battle between life and death, a totally new, outstanding form of entertainment.
13 Assassins (2010) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
十三人の刺客
director: Takashi Miike actor: Koji Yakusho / Takayuki Yamada
other title: 13 assassini / 13 Assassinos
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
Zatoichi (2003) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
座頭市
other title: Zatoichi: Den blinde samurai / Zatoichi - Der blinde Samurai
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
The Great White Tower (2019) [TV] TMDB
白い巨塔
actor: Junichi Okada / Kenichi Matsuyama
other title: 白い巨塔
具有野心的天才外科医生财前五郎,为往上爬而不择手段把救人摆第二,站在对立面的是一位为了理念不顾一切的内科医生里见修二,故事藉由两位主要角色的价值观与生命态度的对照,描绘出医院内部的实态与斗争。
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (2012) [TV] TMDB
ドクターX ~外科医・大門未知子~
9.0 (6 ratings) actor: Ryoko Yonekura / Yuki Uchida
other title: ドクターX ~外科医・大門未知子~ / Doctor-X - Daimon Michiko
Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the empty spots at least temporary. However, Michiko doesn’t look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude. In the first episode she raises objections to a certain operation which is planned to be done by the head of a hospital who hasn’t performed an operation for a very long time. This causes Michiko to incur odium at the hospital, however, everyone becomes frozen when Michiko points out the outdated skills of the director. She also holds a scrupulous compliance when it comes to her working hours, never does any unnecessary chores that don’t require a medical license, and couldn’t care less about the power struggles within the hospitals. Nobody knows how she acquired such a top-level skill that allows her to claim exorbitant sums as reward, but her private life is an even greater mystery to everyone around her. Tanaka plays a rookie surgeon, Uchida an anesthetist, Kishibe the head of the placement service, and Ito the head of the surgical department of this institution.
Vengeance for Sale (2002) [Movie] Douban NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
助太刀屋助六
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Kyoka Suzuki
other title: 助太刀屋助六
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.