Saburo Ishikura
Also Known As: Saburô Ishikura, 石仓三郎
Biography: Saburo Ishikura (石倉 三郎 Ishikura Saburō, born December 16, 1946 in Kagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi (2003) as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid (2002). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Uchinomi, Kagawa, Japan
Birthday: December 16, 1946
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Zatoichi
Overview: Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-09-06
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Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-12-03
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SAKURAFUMI
Overview: A beautiful but sad story about an Oiran who never smiles. Produced and staged by PARCO Theater.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-05
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47 Ronin
Overview: Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-22
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Hachiko
Overview: The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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Discontinuous Bombing Incident
Overview: What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate bombing case 17 years ago? Detective Tamori chases a mystery!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-05-13
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Asakusa Kid
Overview: After dropping out of college, "Takeshi" jumps into the Asakusa France Theater and begins his training as a comedian. His teacher, Senzaburo Fukami, Masayoshi Inoue, who also trains at the French Theater and aspires to be a writer, and other good-natured dancers... This heartwarming and moving drama set in Asakusa vividly depicts the process of "Takeshi's" self-discovery through interaction with his delightful friends.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-26
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
Overview: Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-16
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The Catch
Overview: A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-10-29
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Onmitsu Hicho
Overview: Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the murder of Tanuma Okitsugu's son Mototomo by Sano Masakoto. Those events are a matter of history but the plot that Hiroshi unveils and is eventually killed for is fictional.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-07-23
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Go! Go! Sakura Club
Overview: 76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who lost his beloved wife and was living a lonely life, reunites with Sakura (Yamaguchi Karin), with whom he worked together as a rugby club manager during their student days. When Sakura learns that the day care service she runs is in danger of going bankrupt, she gathers her former rugby club friends and devise a plan...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-05-12
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Dora-heita
Overview: A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-05-13
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虎の流儀 激突！燃える嵐の関門編
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-30
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さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル 塩屋岬いわき殺人事件
Overview: Shohei Kazama (Kinya Kitaoji), who travels all over the country and works as a special police chief, is new to the Iwaki Tokiwa Police Station in Fukushima Prefecture. Kenichi Nishino (Yuma Nakayama) and Kanji Takizaki (Hiroki Okada), the head of the criminal division, express their repulsion. Dai Kuramochi (Hiroshi Katsuno), an alumnus of the Fukushima Prefectural Police, tries to calm him down, but for some reason he continues to show hostility. At that time, Hisashi Ono's (Ichiro Ogura) body is found.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-01-24
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The Scoop!
Overview: Tokoro Yui is a lover of literature and a huge fan of a famous student author known as Midorimachi Konoha. Unfortunately for her, her new school’s literature club is dominated by a group of elite students, preventing her from joining. However, the club’s leader Saionji Mari offers her a lifeline: if she can find out the true identity of the famous writer, she will be permitted to join the club.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-09
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The 8-Tomb Village
Overview: A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-26
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Joke with a Sorrowful Heart
Overview: This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-04-26
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Kichiku
Overview: Made-for-TV film adaptation of the 1957 novel by Seicho Matsumoto starring Takeshi Kitano and directed by Noboru Tanaka. The novel was previously adapted in 1978 film entitled “The Demon” starring Ken Ogata and directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife. Consumed by the jealousy and power struggles of their own relationships, they involve the children in their own games - with tragic results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-15
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Golden Orchestra
Overview: When Chizuru joins as a teacher at Umega High School, she hears an amateur orchestra perform. Reminiscing her old days of playing the violin, she decides to enroll in one.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-11
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Peesuke: Gatapishi story
Overview: Based on the comic book series by Shunji Sonoyama.
Genres: Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-12
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Faces of a Fig Tree
Overview: Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-12-23
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TSUMUGU
Overview: Echizen Washi artisan Takeo has lived in emotional isolation since the death of his wife, but he collapses due to a brain tumor and is in need of care. Yona, a Korean woman in Japan on a working holiday, comes to his aid. Stubborn Takeo and pushy Yona butt heads repeatedly, but gradually Takeo opens up under Yona's care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-03-19
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Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Overview: A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-01
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Return Of Happiness
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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Yakuza Ladies 11
Overview: When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-07-28
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Detective Story
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Eien no Nispa
Overview: Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-07
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Lenses on Her Heart
Overview: Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-09-15
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Congratulatory Speech
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-12-28
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Overview: Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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Shinsengumi
Overview: Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
Genres: Action Animation
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-15
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Magic Kimono
Overview: “Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Karate Cop 5
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Genres: Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-05-16
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The Voice of Obo
Overview: A former boxer leads an unsettled life without any purpose as if he gets away from the pain of his shattered dream. One day, Shuta finds his girlfriend is pregnant. Since he takes it as another cross to bear, he decides to leave to go back to his hometown escaping from taking all the responsibility.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Music Box
Overview: A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-11
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Ryūko no ri
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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Kah-chan
Overview: Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Hazard Lights
Overview: Sugai works as a driver at a chauffeur service company at night. On the night of a full moon weekend, he is told to pair up with a newcomer Kariya. Kariya is a mysterious young guy who gives a silly quiz to Sugai while they work. Sometime later, a drag queen comes to the office and asks for Sugai, saying that someone is trying to kill him. Sugai actually has a past that he could never forget. His colleague tells him that on the night of a full moon weekend something bad would happen...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-04-15
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Osaka Love & Soul
Overview: Osaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-11-06
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The Passed Scene
Overview: At the end of October, Sueko Yamane, a widow living alone, is strangled to death in her home in the Togura district on the outskirts of Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture. Money had been stolen, and it appeared to be a robbery and murder. Kaharu Ginsaku (Tomokazu Miura), head of the First Investigative Division at the Ehime Prefectural Police Headquarters, who was in charge of the investigation, did not anticipate that this case would turn out to be an unexpectedly difficult case. At the end of that year, in a forest overlooking the Genkai Sea in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu, Kazuo Shimosaka (Shiro Sano) puts his hands around the neck of his girlfriend, Nobuko Mano (Saki Takaoka), and strangles her to death.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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Toyama Shōgawa kai satsujin jiken
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-06-24
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カルメン故郷に帰る
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-08-17
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幸福な市民～勤勉とは？ ライオンのように生きたいと願った男の悲喜劇
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-11-04
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Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Overview: The two most famous Japanese mystery characters have come together to solve a crime. A year ago, a man was trying to commit suicide by jumping off a police station building. He was rescued by two men who happened to be the well known Akechi Kogoro and Kosuke Kindaichi. The famous duo were asked to be witnesses and provide information for the police record. From the surface, it was a simple case of suicide. However, soon after the incident, the police lieutenant committed suicide in his office. Slowly from the gathered evidence, the two most unlikely cases are being linked.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-26
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