Shintarō Ishihara Movies

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

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

Toshio, who works at an architectural firm, visits a fishing port to reminisce about his love with his girlfriend Kyoko, who died suddenly one year...

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of...

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away...

Takeshi, bound to be an outlaw youth, boards at the home of his female schoolmate who works at the family restaurant in devil-may-care Akasaka.

Japanese crime film.

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...

A segment of “Love at Twenty” is a weird, grotesque and clumsy tale of obsessive and morbid love.

A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring. Their growing affection challenges...

Story of a textile designer-turned featherweight boxer (Kubo) who, a la Champion ( 1949), loses everything as he battles his way to the top.

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness.

1965 Toei Drama / Comedy

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...