Kenjirou Ishimaru
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Kenjirou Ishimaru.
Born: November 1, 1953
Place of Birth: Oita, Japan
Known For
Byplayers: 100 Days in the Forest of Supporting Actors
Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
Kamen Rider Den-O
Ryotaro Nogami transforms into Kamen Rider Den-O traveling to different times using the time-traveling train DenLiner to battle the Imagin monsters and preventing them from altering the past to affect the present and future.
CODE:MIRAGE
In crime-ridden Japan without an official spy agency, the secret police unit K13—led by top agent Mirage—tackles impossible cases and covert missions, only to uncover a massive conspiracy as political forces push to expand police power.
世界の車窓から
Solitary Gourmet
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.
HANA-KIMI 2011
This is a youthful romantic comedy about a love-struck girl, who enters an all-boys school in pursuit of the guy she loves.
Clouds Over the Hill
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes at 90 minutes each. The first series, with 5 episodes, was broadcast in 2009, while series two and three, each with 4 episodes, were broadcast in late 2010 and 2011. While most episodes were shot in Japan, one of the episodes in series two was shot in Latvia. The TV series is based on the novel Saka no ue no kumo by Ryōtarō Shiba and adopted by Hisashi Nozawa. The theme song of the drama series is titled "Stand Alone". It was composed by Joe Hisaishi, written by Kundo Koyama and performed by British soprano singer Sarah Brightman.
Onihei Hankachō
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.
Jin
After awakening in the Edo era, a neurosurgeon uses his medical knowledge to help those around him while searching for a way back to the present day.
The Choice of Hercules
When radicals from Japan's Red Army took a woman hostage in the resort town of Karuizawa, Nagano in 1972, Officer Atsuyuki Sassa was put in charge of diffusing the situation. But the task had its challenges. Upon arriving in mountainous Nagano, Sassa had to compete with freezing winter temperatures, conflicting opinions between the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the Nagano Prefectural Police, as well as public opinion to gain entrance to the lodge that held the single woman captive.
Filmography
as Tatsuo Mikita
as Yodogawa Teruchika
as Atsushi Ayukawa
as Mr. Shin
as Nanao Masakazu
as Andō
as Hattori Jurohee
as Masayoshi Sakazaki
as Tadashi Harumi
as Kengo Matsuzaki
as Keisuke Katagiri
as Cornello
as Geki Samonji
as Ryusuke Karashima
as Yuichi Arita
as Goda Bungo
as Producer Kinoshita
as Iwao Onikubo
as Mitsuru Obayashi
as Itsuki Sakurahiko
as Owner / Station Master
as Owner / Station Master
as Kondo Mamoru
as Owner / Station Master
as Taniguchi
as Owner / Opening Narration, Station Master
as Owner / Narrator (voice)
as Owner
as MC
as 车主
as Professor Soichiro Amamiya
as Shigeo Moriwaki
as Shizuo Fujio
as Customs Officer
as Hirose
as Masaichi Kaneda
as Seijin Mizuki
as Bartender
as Gozaemon Maru / Vice Principle, Mizuho Sakuragi
as Katsumi Takimoto
as Vice Principal
as Toshiyuki Kamagata
as 伊地知義弘
as Middle-Aged Man in Convenience Store
as Onmyo-gashira
as Kohashi
as Kamiya
as Air force senior controller
as Detective Omuta
as Muramatsu
as (segment "カラダだけの男")
as Toshimichi Okubo
as Aono
as Tokyo Shoji Employee
as Script Reading
as Saruwatari
as Banquet Samurai A
as Owner / Narrator (voice)
as Station Master
as Owner