Yūnosuke Itō
Acting
Biography
Yūnosuke Itō (伊藤 雄之助 Itō Yūnosuke, 3 August 1919 – 11 March 1980) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than 200 films from 1932 to 1979.
Born: August 3, 1919
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Seishun wo warera ni
High and Low
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Professional Killers
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
The Burmese Harp
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Oh, Bomb!
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.
Stray Dog
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.
The Ballad of Narayama
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
Filmography
as Bus Hijacker
as Tetsunoshin Sengoku
as Principal
as Detective Takakura
as Takakura / Detective
as Retsudô Yagyû
as Kotaro Ushikura
as Doctor
as Skipper
as Seishu's father
as Major General Toshio Nonaka - CO 27th Air Brigade
as Sadayu
as Mochida
as Lieutenant Ando
as Kenmotsu Hoshino
as Yuzo Komura
as Unno
as Daisaku Oona
as Red Dragonfly
as Okaru Hachi
as Rotaro Mochizuki
as President Yamada
as Baba - National Shoes Executive
as Tokizo Maeda, ex soldier
as Sandayû Momochi
as Gorô Shirasaka
as Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
as Captain Togawa
as Kikuzō Uetani
as Isobe Sakuzaemon
as Goro Oseto
as Huang
as Fueki
as Hanabusa Itchō
as Seyama
as Artist Morita
as Junji Harukawa
as Matayan's son
as Private first class Sasaki
as The Fiend with Twenty Faces
as Monk Koen
as Ichiro Yoshida
as Ippei Tamaki
as Yusuke Nanbu
as Police detective Totsuka
as Iwata
as Father Yasugi
as Politician
as Dr. Matsumura
as Senkichi Miyama
as Kaji
as Hachigoro
as Komiya
as Mr. Senoo
as Yonekichi Noro
as Enma no Kitaro
as Shigeshiro Baba
as Director Otani
as Novelist
as Director Koishi
as Dohachi
as Philosophy Student
as Kitahachi
as Toshikazu Kanemura
as Jugoro Fujima
as Noro Johei
as Secretary Furuya
as Don-chan
as Laundry shop owner
as Sunosaki Masakichi
as Madman
as Worker
as Husband with children
as Bluebird Theatre manager
as Cook
as Writer Matsuura