Shinsuke Ashida
Acting
Biography
Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介, Ashida Shinsuke, 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
Born: March 14, 1917
Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
Known For
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
Three Sisters
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
Red Angel
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
Children of Hiroshima
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.
Break Down that Wall
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Passport to Darkness
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.
Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Autumn Interlude
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at first sight but sadly 'Setsuko' was pledged to marry a stranger by her parent. She ran away from her hometown and arrived at Tokyo in search of her love one. War erupted then and Tatsurou was summoned to service. As be set foot on a snow-capped mountain before his imminent departure, they promised to each other to press on until they meet again. But, soon she was fallen very ill to TB
Filmography
as Daizo Ohara
as President of Mantetsu
as Eikichi Doba
as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
as Kantaro Suzuki
as Tattoo artist
as 恭亮
as Ninagawa Kihachiro
as Hira Kiyomori
as Toichiro Miyake
as Shigenobu Katsura
as Ichirō Hatoyama
as Takahashi
as Nobuhiro Kamiya
as Shikibe
as Sakamoto, head of the Defense Agency
as DA Okabe
as Chamberlain Doi
as Tsunayoshi Tokugawa
as Detective Sato
as Keisuke Godai
as Keisuke Godai
as Boss Yosida
as Keisuke Godai
as Kiichiro Seto
as Tatsukichi
as Ryūzō Koenji
as Nagai Shinsuke [The Elder brother]
as Kijima
as Dr. Okabe
as Yuzo
as Chairman Aso
as 隠岐達三
as Takemoto
as Tokuzô Nagai
as Kakizaki
as Keigo Nambara
as Togura
as Junpei Ueki
as Jûbei Hamajima
as Ryukichi Sugimoto
as Sakai
as Gōzō Hotta
as Yûnosuke Kobayashi
as Matsumoto
as Takuji Samejima
as (uncredited)
as Tadahiro Sasaki
as Muraoka
as Ôyane
as Shozo Tsuchiya
as Akagi
as Yoshii
as Gorô Mitsuboshi
as Customer (segment 1)
as Congressman Sakuma
as lieutenant Inokuma