Yūjirō Ishihara

Born: 1934-12-28

Yūjirō Ishihara (石原 裕次郎, Ishihara Yūjirō, December 28, 1934 – July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.[1] His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the 1956 film Season of the Sun, based on a novel written by his brother. He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver cancer.


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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

as Yamamoto
Released: 1965-06-16

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers...

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Crazed Fruit

as Takishima Natsuhisa
Released: 1956-07-12

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of...

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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

as Shinsaku Takasugi
Released: 1957-07-14

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...

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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

as Shinozaki Ryoki
Released: 1971-06-12

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...

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Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

as Shinozaki Ryoki
Released: 1970-08-14

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the...

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Tenchu!

as Ryoma Sakamoto
Released: 1969-08-09

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the...

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Samurai Banners

as Kenshin Uesugi
Released: 1969-03-01

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He...

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Safari 5000

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-19

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...

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Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth

as Phantom F. Harlock I
Released: 1982-07-28

After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus...

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Rebellion Reward

as Tetsuo Okita
Released: 1973-02-17

The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a...

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Showdown in the Red Valley

as Shingo Kazama
Released: 1965-12-29

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his...

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Man Who Causes a Storm

as Shoichi Kokubu
Released: 1957-12-28

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is...

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Challenge for Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1966-10-18

A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his...

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Incident at Blood Pass

as Yataro
Released: 1970-04-21

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait....

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I Am Waiting

as Jôji Shimaki
Released: 1957-10-22

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster...

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The Eagle and the Hawk

as Senkichi Nomura
Released: 1957-09-29

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who...

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Rusty Knife

as Yukihiko Tachibana
Released: 1958-03-11

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district...

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That Guy and I

as Saburo Kurokawa
Released: 1961-09-10

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's...

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Hawk of the Harbour

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-12

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets...

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Rainbow Over Kinmon

as Ichiro Takeo
Released: 1962-11-03

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising...

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Season of the Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1956-05-17

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days...

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Human Torpedoes Attack

as uncredited
Released: 1956-12-27

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Kill the Night Rose

as Shinroku Tokugawa
Released: 1966-06-09

An entertaining but silly and fairly forgettable action film with much tongue-in cheek James...

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The Sands of Kurobe

as Iwaoka
Released: 1968-03-01

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...

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Again

as uncredited
Released: 1984-02-18

An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie...

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Fangs of Night

as uncredited
Released: 1958-01-15

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some...

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Dancing Sisters

as Daisuke Yamano
Released: 1957-01-03

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...

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Dice and Swords

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-13

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything...

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A Man Explodes

as uncredited
Released: 1959-04-28

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains....

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The Harbor of No Return

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-13

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that...

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Facing to the Clouds

as uncredited
Released: 1962-05-01

1962 Japanese movie

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Fresh Leaves

as Shintaro Masaki
Released: 1962-10-06

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a...

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Shadow Hunters

as Muroto Jubei
Released: 1972-06-10

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the...

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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-14

1962 Japanese movie

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Alone Across the Pacific

as The Youth
Released: 1963-10-27

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific...

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A Warm Misty Night

as Tôru Sagara
Released: 1967-03-11

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his...

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The Stream of Youth

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-15

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The Wild Reporter

as Toshio Ishimatsu
Released: 1959-09-27

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a...

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The Baby Carriage

as Muneo Aizawa
Released: 1956-01-21

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and...

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Taking the Castle

as uncredited
Released: 1965-03-06

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa,...

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I Hate But Love

as Daisaku Kita
Released: 1962-07-09

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves...

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The Walking Major

as Kitabayashi Hiroshi
Released: 1970-06-06

U.S. Army Captain Clark Allen gains attention by walking back and forth, the length of Japan,...

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The Champion

as Shuntaro Fuma
Released: 1957-05-01

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club...

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Love and Desire in the Night Mist

as uncredited
Released: 1966-06-01

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

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Harbor Rats

as uncredited
Released: 1957-08-21

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir...

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The Sky Is Mine

as uncredited
Released: 1959-11-01

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Red Pier

as Jiro
Released: 1958-09-23

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a...

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Crimson Wings

as Koji Ishida
Released: 1958-12-28

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown...

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Dream Young Man's Dream

as uncredited
Released: 1959-08-09

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

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The Cleanup

as Shimaji
Released: 1969-12-31

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny

as Jubei Muroto
Released: 1972-10-10

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an...

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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

as Kenji Matsuyama
Released: 1958-04-29

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the...

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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon

as uncredited
Released: 1958-08-12

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The Storm over Arabia

as uncredited
Released: 1961-12-24

Japanese action film set in Arabia.

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When a Man Risks His Life

as uncredited
Released: 1959-12-27

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Red Handkerchief

as uncredited
Released: 1964-01-03

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the...

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Wait for Tomorrow

as Kôhei Misugi
Released: 1960-10-26

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...

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This Day's Life

as uncredited
Released: 1957-06-26

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Song of the Underworld

as "Diamond" Fuyu
Released: 1956-12-12

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken...

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Hana to ryu

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-26

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

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Black Strait

as Akio Maki
Released: 1964-12-31

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new...

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Love in Ginza

as uncredited
Released: 1962-03-04

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with...

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Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji

as uncredited
Released: 1970-08-12

In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara,...

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A Slope in the Sun

as Shinji Tashiro
Released: 1958-04-15

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro...

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A World For Two

as uncredited
Released: 1966-02-25

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a...

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富士山頂

as 梅原悟郎
Released: 1970-02-28

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My Sweetheart

as Director Ishizaki
Released: 1967-11-03

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by...

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For This We Fight

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-14

1961 Japanese movie

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A Man's World

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-13

Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's...

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Seinen no isu

as uncredited
Released: 1962-04-08

1962 Japanese movie

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Man of a Stormy Era

as Shinsuke Kusaka
Released: 1968-06-22

The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered...

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In Tears

as Hiroshi
Released: 1965-10-01

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town...

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A Bold Life

as Shuhei Chubu
Released: 1961-10-22

Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who...

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零戦黒雲一家

as uncredited
Released: 1962-08-12

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I Shall Not Forget

as uncredited
Released: 1968-12-28

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that...

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I Fly for Kicks

as uncredited
Released: 1963-03-03

A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.

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The Earth is Born Again

as uncredited
Released: 1971-02-26

Japanese movie.

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That Wonderful Guy

as Takeo
Released: 1958-07-06

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

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The Cards Will Tell

as uncredited
Released: 1960-01-16

A 1960 crime film

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Yujiro's in Europe

as (Self)
Released: 1959-01-01

a documentary on actor Yujiro Ishihara during location shooting in Europe.

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Bark at the Sun

as Toudou Shunsuke (Boss)
First aired: 1972-07-21

The detectives of Nana-magari station investigate a wide variety of crimes in 70s Japan, ranging...

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