Teruo Ishiyama
Also Known As: Ritsu Ishiyama, 石山律, Ritsuo Ishiyama, 石山律雄, 石山辉夫
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
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Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-12
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
Overview: The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and honor of the yakuza. This story takes place in the middle of the Meiji era in Nagoya. Oryu is wandering the country, training herself to reinstate her family name. With a written recommendation from Kumatora, she appears at the door of the Nishinomaru family. At the same time, the family is preparing for the gambling competition at the Netsuda Shrine Festival, which they have been hosting for generations. Meanwhile, the crooked Kinbara family is plotting to take over the competition. And now Oryu is forced to get involved in the struggle…
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-01
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Masseur’s Curse
Overview: One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-06-20
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Kanto Woman Yakuza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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The Notorious Bored Samurai 8
Overview: The two ronin that Sawatari Mondonosuke saved were secret envoys from Ryukyu. They could not stand the tyranny of the Satsuma clan and were trying to appeal to the shogunate. But they were captured by someone afterwards. Mondonosuke’s boredom bug started to stir… Mondonosuke rescued the two who were imprisoned in the mansion of the chief elder, Okubo Iga-no-kami , as well as a senior official, Mamoru, and his niece, Reika , who had also escaped from Ryukyu. The Satsuma clan hired Wakura Juro to assassinate Mondonosuke through his daughter O-Ran, who is a spy …
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-03-27
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Overview: In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Murder on Raicho 9
Overview: Haneda, the president of a company dealing in gold, is shot to death on the Raicho 9 limited express from Osaka to Kanazawa. Detective Kamei begins an investigation in cooperation with the Fukui Prefectural Police. In the Green Car, Detective Nishimoto had noticed a beautiful woman talking to the victim just before he was killed. Looking into her background, she turns out to be Yumiko Miura, living in Setagaya in Tokyo. An eyewitness who claims that she is the murderer also appears, and she is taken into custody. Before long, the victim's unexpected relationships will be revealed one after another...
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-02-14
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Overview: In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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The Fort of Death
Overview: The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-13
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The Black Hood
Overview: A horse-riding samurai fights villains.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Gateway to Glory
Overview: A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant
Overview: A V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya. It was originally planned to include Space Sheriff Gavan, but those plans fell through.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-04-28
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