Toru Minegishi — Actor (23)
Departures (2008) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
おくりびと
8.8 (9 ratings) director: Yojiro Takita actor: Masahiro Motoki / Ryoko Hirosue
other title: Despedidas / Nokan - Die Kunst des Ausklangs
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.
School in the Crosshairs (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ねらわれた学園
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Hiroko Yakushimaru / Ryôichi Takayanagi
other title: ねらわれた学園 / L'École visée
Mitamura Yuka is a normal, shy high school student. Except for the fact that she has psychic powers. When a new student with similar powers begins to show her skills, creating a force of psychic Nazi student enforcers, Yuka and her friends vow to stop her. But behind it all is a mysterious force that will put Yuka's powers to the ultimate test!
The Island Closest to Heaven (1984) [Movie] TMDB
天国にいちばん近い島
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Tomoyo Harada / Miyoko Akaza
other title: 天国にいちばん近い島
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) [Movie] TMDB
金田一耕助の冒険
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
The Trial of Blood (1972) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
無宿人御子神の丈吉 牙は引き裂いた
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Yoshio Harada / Katsuo Nakamura
other title: The Trail of Blood / 無宿人御子神の丈吉 牙は引き裂いた
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.
If You Were Young: Rage (1970) [Movie] TMDB
君が若者なら
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tetsuo Ishidate / Gin Maeda
other title: 君が若者なら / Si tu étais jeune
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to try. Then one hits upon a plane - to work together to save for a dump truck and thus become independent contractors and be their own bosses at last. Ultimately life presents obstacles: jail for one, violence at the hands of the police for another and a girlfriend and subsequent children for the third. An early Kinji Fukasaku gem that imports the freewheeling style of the French New Wave and the hip detachment of American noir.
The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
赤穂城断絶
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba
other title: A Queda do Castelo Ako / Last of the Ako Clan
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData
極道戦国志 不動
director: Takashi Miike actor: Shosuke Tanihara / Riki Takeuchi
other title: Fudoh: the new generation / Fudoh
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
The Last Samurai (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
狼よ落日を斬れ
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Hideki Takahashi / Ken Ogata
other title: Les derniers samouraïs / 狼よ落日を斬れ
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Mission: Iron Castle (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
忍びの衆
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Toru Minegishi
other title: Mission : Iron Castle / 忍びの衆
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.
Proof of the Man (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
人間の証明
director: Junya Satō actor: Mariko Okada / George Kennedy
other title: 人間の証明 / Sombras de una guerra
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
High School Teacher (1993) [TV] TMDB
高校教師
director: Ken Yoshida actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Sachiko Sakurai
other title: 高校教師
Hamura entered a high school as a biology teacher. Unexpectedly, one of his students, Mayu, fell in love with him. The forbidden love between the teacher and the student began to sprout. Hamura was worried that his relationship with Mayu would be misunderstood, so he tried to escape. However, he later understood Mayu’s tragic life and that the two could not be separated…
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
ゴジラvsビオランテ
director: Kazuki Ōmori actor: Kunihiko Mitamura / Yoshiko Tanaka
other title: Godzilla contro Biollante / Godzilla - Der Urgigant
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria). They seeks the aid of geneticist Genshiro Shiragami, who's experiments result in a new mutation.
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ゴジラvsスペースゴジラ
director: Kensho Yamashita actor: Jun Hashizume / Megumi Odaka
other title: Godzilla contro Space Godzilla / Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla
A mysterious extraterrestrial being resembling Godzilla rapidly approaches Earth. The monster, dubbed SpaceGodzilla, lands to challenge the King of the Monsters.
Capone Cries a Lot (1985) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
カポネ大いに泣く
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Yuko Tanaka
other title: カポネ大いに泣く
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Third Base (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
サード
director: Yōichi Higashi actor: Toshiyuki Nagashima / Tsuguaki Yoshida
other title: Un joueur de base-ball nommé Third / サード
Third is an aimless young man who hangs around with a couple of girls who are amateur hookers. One day, while acting as their pimp, he gets into a conflict with a young gangster and winds up killing him.
Big Boobs Buster (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
巨乳ハンター
director: Hisashi Watanabe actor: Harumi Kai / Uran Hirosaki
other title: 巨乳ハンター
Another buxom bombshell falls prey to the masked vigilante, the Big Boobs Buster! Rumor has it that the vengeful villainess was once a mild mannered student ridiculed and rejected for her small bust size. Now, the spurned woman gets even by donning a ridiculous costume and taunting her well-endowed nemeses. Will bouncy coeds across the land be forced under cover? Is any bosomy beauty safe from the Big Boobs Buster?
Demon Spies (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
鬼輪番
director: Takashi Tsuboshima actor: Masaomi Kondo / Toru Minegishi
other title: Les mercenaires du démon / 鬼輪番
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!