Shintarō Ishihara Movies

  • 1965
    Why Are We Young?

    Why Are We Young?

    Why Are We Young?

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    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...

    Why Are We Young?
  • 1998
    The Hidden Festival

    The Hidden Festival

    The Hidden Festival

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

    The Hidden Festival
  • 1957
    Hole in One

    Hole in One

    Hole in One

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    A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

    Hole in One
  • 1956
    Lunar Eclipse

    Lunar Eclipse

    Lunar Eclipse

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    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...

    Lunar Eclipse
  • 1980
    The Terrifying Man-eating Shark Woman

    The Terrifying Man-eating Shark Woman

    The Terrifying Man-eating Shark Woman

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    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...

    The Terrifying Man-eating Shark Woman
  • 1961
    Challenge to Live

    Challenge to Live

    Challenge to Live

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    An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

    Challenge to Live
  • 1959
    Woman from the Sea

    Woman from the Sea

    Woman from the Sea

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    While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...

    Woman from the Sea
  • 1959
    Umi no Chizu

    Umi no Chizu

    Umi no Chizu

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    Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant...

    Umi no Chizu
  • 1977
    Tree of Youth

    Tree of Youth

    Tree of Youth

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    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.

    Tree of Youth
  • 1957
    A Dangerous Hero

    A Dangerous Hero

    A Dangerous Hero

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    A film by Hideo Suzuki.

    A Dangerous Hero
  • 1960
    トップ屋を殺せ

    トップ屋を殺せ

    トップ屋を殺せ

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    Japanese crime film.

    トップ屋を殺せ
  • 1964
    Yaburezaru Mono

    Yaburezaru Mono

    Yaburezaru Mono

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

    Yaburezaru Mono
  • 1962
    Forbidden

    Forbidden

    Forbidden

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    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...

    Forbidden
  • 1962
    Tokyo

    Tokyo

    Tokyo

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

    Tokyo