Shintarō Ishihara Movies

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20....

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...

In 1943, as Japan's WWII effort falters, a vice-admiral proposes training squadrons of "volunteer" flyers to crash their armed planes into Allied...

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their...

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small...

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of...

Toshio, who works at an architectural firm, visits a fishing port to reminisce about his love with his girlfriend Kyoko, who died suddenly one year...

Set within the Aokigahara forest on Mount Fuji, a famous location for suicides. Follows the love and life between a man and woman.

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for...

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...