Yūjirō Ishihara Movies

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a...

A lively coming-of-age movie about the activities of Mr. Yu-chan, a teacher who helps the weak and discourages the wicked.

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

A pure love melodrama movie.

Travelogue made by Yujiro Ishihara during the location shooting of his 1959 film Love and Death (Sekai o kakeru koi) in Europe.

1962 Japanese movie

This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy...

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

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

A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally...

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

A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to...