Ittoku Kishibe
Acting
Biography
Ittoku Kishibe (岸部一徳) is a Japanese actor, bassist, and lyricist. He originally entered showbusiness as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands The Tigers, PYG, and Inoue Takayuki Band, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role in 1991 for "The Sting of Death," and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994. He has an agency, UN et NEUF, and he is the president of Kenji Sawada's private office "Kokoro Co., Ltd."
Born: January 8, 1947
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Known For
doktor/kranke
Sayaka, a girl with supernatural powers and multiple personality disorder, lives with psychiatrist Shibusawa for treatment, but Shibusawa has begun to love her beyond as more than a patient.
Imo Tako Nankin
The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware store in Osaka City while doing literary work. One day, she falls ill due to overwork and falls in love with Tokunaga Kenjiro, the doctor who examines her. Kenjiro and Machiko marry. But Kenjiro, who lost his first wife to illness, lives not just with his five children, but his brother, sister, and parents. In a comical and heart-warming way, the drama depicts Machiko's struggle with the new family while pursuing her career as a novelist.
The Whispered City
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Ruri's Island
Ruri, having been abandoned by her mother to a foster care facility, lives a life of reckless abandonment. When Nakama Yuzo, a kind man but for a trigger-happy temper, runs into Ruri he realizes that perhaps she's the child he's been looking for. Yuzo lives in Hatomijima, a small insland in Okinawa where the population is 49 and the average age group is 61. There are no children. The island has only one school - a primary school. If a child is not enrolled in the school, it will be closed. As a result, society will abandon the island and in a few years, it will cease to have any inhabitants. To save their island, the locals decide to bring in a foster child. Ruri is their candidate, and with her she brings the hope of the island's survival.
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has more affection for insects than people after years of being bullied at school when he was young. Yoshida soon realizes that Asahiyama Zoo is facing a financial crisis and the zoo director Takizawa (Toshiyuki Nishida) has been doing everything in his power to save the zoo from closing down. Moved by Takizawa's passion, Yoshida and other zoo keepers came to share the zoo director's belief that one's dreams can come true, and together they tackle this seemingly impossible task of revitalizing Asahiyama. A breakthrough arrives in the form of “Behavioral Exhibition,†a method that is pioneered by Ashiyama's zoo keepers and which eventually makes the zoo renowned throughout the world.
Waiting in the Dark
A precarious loner sneaks into a blind woman's home and begins living there without her noticing. Meanwhile, the woman mourns her recently deceased father and struggles to remain connected to the world.
The Private Detective Mike
Mike Hama, Private Detective, is a chain-smoking, wisecracking tough guy with a weakness for the ladies and a soft spot in his heart, especially for his kid sister Akane. Mike's so down on his luck he'll take any case, from finding a lost pet to spying on cheating spouses. But every now and then, along comes a client with dubious and dangerous case… and that's when Mike shows his stuff.
Sakura Guardian in the North
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
Box: The Hakamada Case
Based on the true story of former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada who has spent over 40 years incarcerated on death row. Iwao Hakamada was arrested for the June 10, 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka . Iwao Hakamada has always insisted on his innocence and many others also believe Iwao Hakamada has been falsely accused ...
It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) has since become a master samisen player and woman of great elegance. Though not especially rich, she doles out money to street kids, in particular, a pretty young flower vendor named Oyuki, who becomes Aihara's godchild of sorts. Yet when a geisha (Reiko Takashima) from a rival red-light district insults Aihara and her brethren, she fights back. Soon an all-out geisha war looms. Dapper businessman and amateur scholar Tojiro Koga (Tetsuya Watari) appears on the scene and defuses tempers -- suggesting that difference be settled through a competition of artistic abilities. Smitten with her talent and mature beauty, Koga invites Aihara to record Nagasaki folk songs before they disappear forever
Filmography
as Sen no Rikyu
as Kenichi Tsurumaki
as Haruhiko Madarame
as Haruhiko Madarame
as Chame
as Kazuyuki Ishida
as Shigeomi Yamagata
as Tsuneo Okochi
as Kozaburo Yanagi
as Yukio Suzuki
as Takeshi Kano
as Kazuo Yamaoka
as Morishima
as Etsuro Takegami
as Seiji Yamashita
as Haruhiko Madarame
as Tanuki
as Seiroku
as 二木正一
as Isamu Yoshioka
as Detective Hayasaka
as Okichi Kitano
as Maehara Mitsuo
as Kazuyoshi Honjo
as Detective
as Yuzurihara Saburo
as 伊東孝俊
as Akira Kanbara
as Kiyotada Isaka
as Gotou Yoshitaka
as Hayasaka
as homeless man
as Onoda
as Yatokube Sanshu
as Deputy Chief Retainer Tsuda
as Professor Yokoshi
as Tatsuya Satoi
as Totani
as 마미야 테츠오
as Seinosuke Yanagihara
as Tomoya Nakajo
as Shoji Takahashi
as Jukichi Matsuda
as Takanori Kubo
as Ohmasa
as Yotsuya
as Kohken Onoda
as Ittoku Kishibe
as Koichi Fujiyama
as Kaoru Kayama
as Doctor
as Yotsuya
as Yotsuya
as Tadashi Matoya
as 마토야 타다시
as Junzo Shirai
as Toranosuke Inugami
as Keisuke Okishima
as 花岡常太郎
as Norio Yoshimoto
as Michiru's Father
as Noguchi Keno
as Ohya Kenzo
as 等々力竜司
as Kazuma Seto
as Kaita Takanashi
as Mr. Maru
as Kishibe Ittoku
as Caretaker
as Seiichi Shirai
as Dr. Kashiwabuchi
as Tatsuya Kobayashi
as Matsunaga
as Tei Maruyama
as Director of Finance Bureau Ohno
as 라이도
as Keneyama
as Boss Inosuke Ginzo
as Ryutaro Morishita
as Dr. Obana
as Onoda
as Koken Onoda
as Tsugio Yamazaki
as Tokuzo
as Oribe Sakakibara
as Taira no Tadanori
as Eiichi Hanada
as College Professor
as Policeman A
as Shuzo Morouka
as Nanbu
as Headmaster
as Inspector Nagoshi
as Tanuki
as Kazuhiko Murakoshi
as Director Mima
as Satoru Ebisuoka（戎岡 悟）
as Atsuo
as Youzou Tajimi / Hisaya / Shouzaemon
as Chief
as Tsuyoshi Sasayama
as John Manjiro
as Cafe Owner
as Ikuo Kihara
as Kimio Hatsukaichi, Matsu's lover
as Sakakibara, The Politician
as Go
as Dr. Yamaoka
as Fumihiro Kusubayashi
as Ozaki
as Saito
as Terauchi
as Goto Sannosuke
as Rikiya Azuma
as Father
as Daisaku Yanagawa, 2nd son
as Toshio
as Nito
as Kuni-san
as Yasuharu
as News Reporter
as Yoshikazu Ishimoto
as Tetsu Yoshida
as Yoshiharu Ishii
as Akira
as 横川エンタツ
as Swimmer
as Maeda
as Toshiyuki Kato
as Toshio Fukushima
as Itakura
as Man in White
as Kiyoshi Fujiwara
as Kazuo Yamazaki
as Yazaki
as Sally
as Osamu Akatsuka