Yūjirō Ishihara
Born: 1934-12-28 in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Died: 1987-07-17
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1984
1982
- Arcadia of My Youth as Phantom F. Harlock I
1979
- Seibu Keisatsu as Kogure Kenzou
1978
- Haguregumo ... (Producer)
1973
- Rebellion Reward as Tetsuo Okita
- Wild Cop 2 ... (Producer)
- Wild Cop ... (Producer)
1972
- Bark at the Sun as Toudou Shunsuke (Boss)
- Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny as Jubei Muroto
- Shadow Hunters as Muroto Jubei
1971
- Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow as Shinozaki Ryoki
- The Earth is Born Again as Kazuya Uematsu
- A Man's World
1970
- Incident at Blood Pass as Yataro
- Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny as Shinozaki Ryoki
- The Summit of Mt. Fuji as Goro Umehara
- Spartan Education
- The Walking Major as Kitabayashi Hiroshi
1969
- Tenchu! as Ryoma Sakamoto
- Samurai Banners as Kenshin Uesugi
- Safari 5000
- The Cleanup as Shimaji
1968
- The Sands of Kurobe as Iwaoka
- Man of a Stormy Era as Shinsuke Kusaka
- Dice and Swords
- I Shall Not Forget
1967
- My Sweetheart as Director Ishizaki
- A Warm Misty Night as Tôru Sagara
- Hawk of the Harbour
- Outlaw's Gold as 立原英次
1966
1965
- Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes as Yamamoto
- Taking the Castle
- In Tears as Hiroshi
- Why Are We Young? as Kensuke Nonomura
- Showdown in the Red Valley as Shingo Kazama
1964
1963
1962
- Love in Ginza
- Fresh Leaves as Shintaro Masaki
- A Man with Dragon Tattoos
- I Hate But Love as Daisaku Kita
- Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
- Seinen no isu
- Facing to the Clouds
- Rainbow Over Kinmon as 武井一郎
- 零戦黒雲一家
1961
- The Storm over Arabia as Kentarô Munakata
- For This We Fight
- A Bold Life as Shuhei Chubu
- That Guy and I as Saburo Kurokawa
1960
- Yakuza sensei
- Wait for Tomorrow as Kôhei Misugi
- Man at the Bullfight as Tôu Kitami
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Brawler as Taro Uno
- The Day of Youth
- Showdown at Shirogane Castle
- Ajisai no uta
1959
- A Man Explodes
- A Love that Wagers the World as Yuji Muraoka
- When a Man Risks His Life
- The Echo of Love
- The Stream of Youth
- The Wild Reporter as Toshio Ishimatsu
- We Live Today as Shiro
- The Sky Is Mine
- Yujiro in Europe as (Self)
- Dream Young Man's Dream
1958
- Rusty Knife as Yukihiko Tachibana
- Red Pier as Jiro
- Fangs of Night
- A Slope in the Sun as Shinji Tashiro
- Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku as Kenji Matsuyama
- The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
- Crimson Wings as Koji Ishida
- That Wonderful Guy as Takeo
- Showdown in the Storm
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Shinsaku Takasugi
- I Am Waiting as Jôji Shimaki
- Man Who Causes a Storm as Shoichi Kokubu
- The Champion as Shuntaro Fuma
- Harbor Rats
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Senkichi Nomura
- Dancing Sisters as Daisuke Yamano
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Haruo Nanjô
- This Day's Life
1956
- Crazed Fruit as Takishima Natsuhisa
- Season of the Sun
- The Baby Carriage as Muneo Aizawa
- Lunar Eclipse
- Song of the Underworld as "Diamond" Fuyu
- Human Torpedoes Attack