Sumao Ishihara

AKA:

0.2934

1903-05-01

Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {62}

1956-09-12 6.2

Undercurrent

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1958-06-15 7

The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt ...

Genre :Horror

Kokichi

1953-08-12 7.527

A Geisha

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishne ...

Genre :Drama

1965-08-14 0

Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O.

Genre :

1962-07-29 0

170 Leagues to Edo

Genre :

1966-12-24 0

Drunken Harbor

Third film of the yoidore hakase series ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1958-09-22 7.1

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress. ...

Genre :Drama

1962-05-27 0

Sōran wataridori

1962 Japanese movie ...

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1955-09-06 0

The Magical Warrior

Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she is attacked by Ronin. in Asakusa, However, they co ...

Genre :Drama

1936-01-16 0

Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen

Genre :Drama

1960-12-21 0

Samurai Save The Virgin

A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbulent era in which various characters fall into a maelstrom of events - a pretty girl, a strange beggar ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Touring theatre manager Onishi

1939-10-13 7.8

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1951-01-13 6.5

Clothes of Deception

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board. ...

Genre :Drama

1956-05-18 0

Sisters of Gion

Genre :Drama

Yoshimatsu

1948-10-18 0

The Grand Master

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becoming the Shogi Grand Master Champion, everything is a ...

Genre :Drama

1951-01-20 0

A Spectacular Murder

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all were fake. That same night, a dancer in the troupe we ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime

1962-08-12 0

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

Genre :Action, Drama

1966-02-26 7

The Thieves' Who's Who

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person. ...

Genre :Action

Yakko

1954-03-31 8.1

Sansho the Bailiff

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier. ...

Genre :Drama

Inn Head Clerk

1954-11-23 7.7

Chikamatsu Monogatari

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Pot Salesman

1953-10-30 7.097

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is m ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance

1954-12-29 7.1

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim. ...

Genre :Horror

1937-01-05 0

Bored Hatamoto on Mt. Fuji

Bored Hatamoto film #8 ...

Genre :History, Action

1972-01-15 7.359

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Hostess

1957-03-06 5.4

An Osaka Story

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozabur ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1963-08-09 6.9

Zatoichi the Fugitive

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiou ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1961-06-14 6.5

The Gambler's Code

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamb ...

Genre :History, Drama

Quick lunch shopkeeper

1960-10-18 6.6

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tel ...

Genre :Action

1966-09-17 2

Assignment Cloud

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected ...

Genre :Action, War, Mystery

Passenger B

1968-10-05 0

The Daring Nun

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but sh ...

Genre :

Kishichi Sengoku

1962-01-21 6.5

The Temple of Wild Geese

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melanc ...

Genre :Drama

1969-02-22 8.3

Sworn Brothers

Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his origin ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1963-10-05 7.6

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father. ...

Genre :Drama

1963-01-03 6.5

Shinsengumi Chronicles

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and ...

Genre :Action, Thriller, War

1962-09-30 5.5

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki sw ...

Genre :Drama, History

1961-10-31 0

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion whe ...

Genre :Drama

1958-10-01 0

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of ...

Genre :

Salesman

1954-06-20 7.198

The Woman in the Rumor

After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much. ...

Genre :Drama

1969-11-15 6.2

Blood End

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overth ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Romance, History

1967-08-12 6.6

Zatoichi the Outlaw

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

1967-11-15 7

The Hoodlum Priest

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defian ...

Genre :Action, Crime, History

1966-05-03 6.9

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

1955-09-21 6.8

Taira Clan Saga

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei. ...

Genre :Drama, History

1957-09-29 6.9

Secret of Naruto

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody r ...

Genre :Drama, Action

1964-08-08 0

On the Road Forever

A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest peasants into slavery. ...

Genre :Action

1956-01-09 0

Matashirō Fighting Journey

Genre :Romance

1956-01-03 0

Migratory Birds of the Flowers

Genre :Mystery

1957-06-04 0

Fighting Letter for 29 People

Genre :Drama

1935-07-14 5

The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jida ...

Genre :History, Drama

1961-12-08 0

Oniisan to oneesan

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda. ...

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1969-06-28 6.2

The Curse of the Ghost

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella ...

Genre :Horror

1937-11-01 0

Banchō sarayashiki

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki. ...

Genre :Drama, Horror

1957-01-03 0

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi

Genre :

1956-04-04 0

刑事部屋

Genre :

1961-10-14 6

The Radiant Prince

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to life in this new tale of his further romantic adventures. Young Genji, the emperor’s ille ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1954-03-03 0

Maiko monogatari

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1957-07-13 0

The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood

A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi (The Millionaire of a Night) and shot by Hiro Imai (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)). Starring Achako Hanabi ...

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1956-11-21 0

Sound in the Mist

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night, Kazuhiko's wife Kazuyo comes to see them and confron ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1954-11-10 0

Nage Utasamon sanban tegara: Fukumen dokurotai

Third in the Nage utasamon series ...

Genre :Horror

Kajimura

1932-12-01 0

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kir ...

Genre :Drama

Matsukichi

1972-01-01 8

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mou ...