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
- Wild Cop ... (Producer)
- Rebellion Reward as Tetsuo Okita
- Wild Cop 2 ... (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
- The Walking Major as Kitabayashi Hiroshi
- Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny as Shinozaki Ryoki
- The Summit of Mt. Fuji as Goro Umehara
- Spartan Education
1969
- Tenchu! as Ryoma Sakamoto
- Samurai Banners as Kenshin Uesugi
- Safari 5000
- The Cleanup as Shimaji
1968
- The Sands of Kurobe as Iwaoka
- Dice and Swords
- I Shall Not Forget
- Man of a Stormy Era as Shinsuke Kusaka
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
- Why Are We Young? as Kensuke Nonomura
- In Tears as Hiroshi
- Showdown in the Red Valley as Shingo Kazama
1964
1963
- Alone Across the Pacific as The Youth
- Foggy Night Blues
- I Fly for Kicks as Jiro Hayasaka
- Escape into Terror
1962
- A Man with Dragon Tattoos
- 零戦黒雲一家
- I Hate But Love as Daisaku Kita
- Love in Ginza
- Fresh Leaves as Shintaro Masaki
- Seinen no isu
- Facing to the Clouds
- Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
- Rainbow Over Kinmon as 武井一郎
1961
- That Guy and I as Saburo Kurokawa
- For This We Fight
- The Storm over Arabia as Kentarô Munakata
- A Bold Life as Shuhei Chubu
1960
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Brawler as Taro Uno
- Wait for Tomorrow as Kôhei Misugi
- Yakuza sensei
- The Day of Youth
- Man at the Bullfight as Tôu Kitami
- Showdown at Shirogane Castle
- Ajisai no uta
1959
- We Live Today as Shiro
- The Wild Reporter as Toshio Ishimatsu
- The Stream of Youth
- The Echo of Love
- When a Man Risks His Life as Jotaro Komuro
- A Man Explodes
- The Sky Is Mine
- Dream Young Man's Dream
- Yujiro in Europe as (Self)
- A Love that Wagers the World as Yuji Muraoka
1958
- A Slope in the Sun as Shinji Tashiro
- That Wonderful Guy as Takeo
- Crimson Wings as Koji Ishida
- Rusty Knife as Yukihiko Tachibana
- Red Pier as Jiro
- The Man Who Rode the Typhoon as Hayao Taki
- Tomorrow is Another Day as Kenji Matsuyama
- Fangs of Night
- 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
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Senkichi Nomura
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Haruo Nanjô
- Harbor Rats
- Dancing Sisters as Daisuke Yamano
- This Day's Life
1956
- Crazed Fruit as Takishima Natsuhisa
- The Baby Carriage as Muneo Aizawa
- Season of the Sun
- Lunar Eclipse
- Song of the Underworld as "Diamond" Fuyu
- Human Torpedoes Attack