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Yūjirō Ishihara

Acting Born Dec 28, 1934 Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan 24 credits

Biography

Yūjirō Ishihara (石原 裕次郎, Ishihara Yūjirō, December 28, 1934 – July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.[1] His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the 1956 film Season of the Sun, based on a novel written by his brother. He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver cancer.

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Known for

Film

Shadow Hunters

as Muroto Jubei

Full filmography

  • Big City: Days of Struggle (1976)
  • Seibu Keisatsu (1979) as Kogure Kenzou
  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965) as Yamamoto
  • Bark at the Sun (1972) as Toudou Shunsuke (Boss)
  • Crazed Fruit (1956) as Takishima Natsuhisa
  • Shadow Hunters (1972) as Muroto Jubei
  • Tenchu! (1969) as Ryoma Sakamoto
  • A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957) as Shinsaku Takasugi
  • Samurai Banners (1969) as Kenshin Uesugi
  • Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny (1972) as Jubei Muroto
  • I Am Waiting (1957) as Jôji Shimaki
  • Incident at Blood Pass (1970) as Yataro
  • Arcadia of My Youth (1982) as Phantom F. Harlock I
  • The Earth is Born Again (1971) as Kazuya Uematsu
  • The Sands of Kurobe (1968) as Iwaoka
  • Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny (1970) as Shinozaki Ryoki
  • Rusty Knife (1958) as Yukihiko Tachibana
  • Fresh Leaves (1962) as Shintaro Masaki
  • The Walking Major (1970) as Kitabayashi Hiroshi
  • Taking the Castle (1965)
  • Love in Ginza (1962)
  • Red Pier (1958) as Jiro
  • Frozen River (1976)
  • The Cleanup (1969) as Shimaji