Shinsuke Ashida
Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介, Ashida Shinsuke, 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as (uncredited)After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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A Taxing Woman
as Ninagawa KihachiroIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Keisuke GodaiThe upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...
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The Fall of Ako Castle
as ShikibeThis is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...
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Red Angel
as Dr. OkabeIn 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during...
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Crazed Fruit
as uncreditedTwo brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of...
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Stakeout
as uncreditedTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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Never Give Up
as Sakamoto, head of the Defense AgencySpecial forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...
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Shogun's Samurai
as Chamberlain DoiFollowing the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by...
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Blood Type: Blue
as uncreditedUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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Underworld Beauty
as ÔyaneThe moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
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Death of a Tea Master
as Hideyoshi ToyotomiYears after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve...
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The Shadow Within
as uncreditedWhen a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young...
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Spring Bell
as uncreditedRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
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Tales of Ginza
as Gorô MitsuboshiIn the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged...
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Take Aim at the Police Van
as Jûbei HamajimaA sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
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Endless Desire
as uncreditedSet in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a...
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Woman of the Lake
as YuzoA married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Kantaro SuzukiBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Everything Goes Wrong
as Keigo NambaraEverything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man....
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Succession
as Eikichi DobaA former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of...
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Company Executives
as uncreditedA fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Children of Hiroshima
as uncreditedShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
as uncreditedSomewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a...
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Red Handkerchief
as uncreditedA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the...
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Thirst for Love
as Chairman AsoNatsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an...
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The Sleeping Beast Within
as Junpei UekiWhen a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires...
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My Second Brother
as SakaiThe film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of...
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Cell No. 8
as uncreditedA man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their...
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Voice Without a Shadow
as MuraokaAsako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
as Keisuke GodaiSecond part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Oishinbo
as Daizo OharaBased on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai...
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Chivalry Broken from All Sides
as KijimaThis is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji,...
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The Yoshida School
as Ichirō HatoyamaCoinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece...
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The Incorrigible
as uncreditedBased on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars...
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Call from Darkness
as uncreditedKeiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo...
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Golden Partners
as Nobuhiro KamiyaA motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's...
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Satan's Town
as AkagiA yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
as uncreditedHidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a...
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Men and War III: The Final Chapter
as Keisuke GodaiFinal part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...
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Crimson Wings
as Tadahiro SasakiAt about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown...
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Darkness at Noon
as YoshiiPolice beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...
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The Story of Jiro
as 恭亮Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
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Chivalrous Life
as uncreditedIn the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the...
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Stray Dog
as Detective SatoWhen his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is...
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Break Down that Wall
as Takuji SamejimaA man is wrongfully accused of murder.
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Shichinin no keiji
as uncreditedMiyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are...
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Autumn Interlude
as uncreditedThe story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love...
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Lullaby of Death
as TakahashiAlso known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya...
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Glowing Autumn
as uncreditedA very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by...
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A Killer Without a Grave
as uncreditedNakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money...
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Actress
as uncreditedBased on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...
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Shutsugeki
as uncreditedAn original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango”...
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The Incident
as uncreditedThe body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...
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Miniature
as uncreditedGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
as Boss YosidaEnd of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
as TatsukichiThe Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect...
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Sun and stars
as uncreditedIt's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down...
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Dancing Girls of Izu
as uncreditedA dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about...
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The Setting Sun
as President of MantetsuA Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the...
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Rambling in the Sea
as uncreditedSeventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
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The Last Women
as lieutenant InokumaThe events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the...
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The Flesh Is Weak
as Shozo TsuchiyaA woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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Kyukei no Koya
as uncreditedA film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko...
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Modern People
as uncreditedA section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction...
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Keep Your Chin Up
as Tokuzô NagaiKawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys...
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Love and Desire in the Night Mist
as uncreditedA film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
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Mahiru no yuugai
as uncreditedA suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who...
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Killer Sword
as uncredited1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan....
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Mehyō to Narazu Mono
as uncreditedA poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new...
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Muhō Ichidai
as uncreditedThe movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in...
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Covered Wagon
as uncreditedA Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from...
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Dynamite ni Hi o Tsukero
as uncreditedAn action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop...
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Kikenna onna
as Ryukichi SugimotoBased on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
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The Ghost of Iwojima
as uncreditedThe monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper...
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Homecoming
as 隠岐達三Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that...
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Kyukei no Koya
as uncreditedBased on novel 1962 "Kyukei no Koya" by Seicho Matsumoto. A serial murder occurs around the...
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Burden of Love
as Congressman SakumaThe female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a...
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Skyscraper Murder Case
as uncreditedDeath stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to...
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Passport to Darkness
as uncreditedA jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of...
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Wolves of the Night
as uncreditedA unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love...
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Sea of Wandering
as uncreditedSet in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who...
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Love and Death
as uncreditedYuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend,...
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A Thousand Suspects
as uncreditedSuspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of...
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日本暴力地帯
as uncreditedThe first directorial work of Kazuhiko Murakami, a master of gangster comics. Yano-gumi Wakato...
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Merciless Bullet
as MatsumotoKiller Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the...
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七人の刑事 女を探がせ
as uncreditedThis is the second installment in the Shichinin no Keiji police procedural series.
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Three Sisters
as Nagai Shinsuke [The Elder brother]The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the...
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Life of a Flower
as TakemotoThe story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke.
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Musashibo Benkei
as Hira KiyomoriAfter being carried in his mother’s womb for three years, Benkei is born with long hair and...
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Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
as uncreditedIn this gripping period drama, Matsudaira Ukon, the younger brother of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun...
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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
as uncreditedThrough the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...
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Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun
as uncreditedThe tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends,...
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