LaSalle Ishii
Also Known As: Akio Ishii, Rasaru Ishii, いしい あきお, ラサール いしい, 石井 朗夫, 石井 章雄, LaSalle Ishii
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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The World Laughs
Overview: This is a human drama written by Keralino Sandorovich showcasing people fascinated with and obsessed with laughter in Shinjuku in the mid-1950s.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-08-07
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The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Overview: A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-20
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Ikiru
Overview: In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to intensively live his last months of life. While dying, he finds the meaning of life, and fights for the construction of a playground in a poor zone of the city and the legacy of his existence.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-09
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We Couldn't Become Adults
Overview: Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-11-05
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KochiKame Final: Kankichi Ryotsu's Last Day
Overview: Kankichi Ryotsu is sulking after his bonus was snatched away by the members of the shopping district. On TV, they hear that Princess Sabrina of the Attakaino Kingdom is coming to Japan. While making a delivery, Ryotsu encounters a kidnapping incident. The girl he rescues from the kidnapper is Princess Sabrina! The kidnapping case develops into a major commotion that involves the downtown area! Will Ryotsu be able to protect the downtown area and everyone there?
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-18
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Overview: In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-07-26
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Mistaken
Overview: Kawashima senses a strange presence inside his apartment, and sets up security cameras in an attempt to find out what that is. Then the doorbell rings, and a succession of other bizarre phenomena send him into a state of panic.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-26
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Kaeshi 2
Overview: After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Yamai is released thanks to Akiko but the search for Miyake's killer begins. Security camera footage reveals Seiji to be the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-25
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Kaeshi
Overview: After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Seiji tries to get on with his life after losing his daughter and wife. Ten years later he learns that his daughter's killer has been freed.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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The Little House
Overview: Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-25
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Burst City
Overview: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Genres: Action Music Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-09
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KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!
Overview: Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-08-05
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Immigration Under the Rim
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-06-30
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連載40周年特別企画 舞台版「こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所」
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-03-05
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Desperate Sunflowers
Overview: Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called to solve her troubles. Believing that Natsuko is using her, Tetsuko, with her boring life, begins to change.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-25
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The Girl in Glass
Overview: A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-10
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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-12-28
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Some Kinda Love
Overview: The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
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Spring Has Come
Overview: Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-24
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Three for the Road
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-07-11
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About Her Brother
Overview: Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-30
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Overview: A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-01-28
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KochiKame: The Movie
Overview: Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings from the Shinatora corporation seem to be targeted by the mysterious Benten.
Genres: Animation Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-12-23
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Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Overview: A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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Get Up!
Overview: A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.
Genres: Comedy Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-05
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Currency and Blonde
Overview: A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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Stardust Over The Town
Overview: Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-03-06
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The Reason Why I Became Ill
Overview: An omnibus comedy movie consisting of three short stories. The themes are "My Sweet Little Cancer," "Langerhans Connection" and "Hypertension Road," respectively.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-11
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KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!
Overview: The movie starts off with Ryotsu (with Honda as his patsy) hatching another crackpot scam with a fake UFO sighting (via fake crop circles and a wire-hanging UFO). But the plan fails per usual, with the Kameari Park Police Box which results in Ohara punishes Ryotsu by subtracting him from the station's group vacation to Hawaii the following day.
Genres: Animation Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-20
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The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono
Overview: Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2020-11-06
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The King of Minami: System Finance
Overview: #28 in the series, following "Permanent Scar."
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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Kigeki kazoku dōmei
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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