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
- The Walking Major as Kitabayashi Hiroshi
- Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny as Shinozaki Ryoki
- Incident at Blood Pass as Yataro
- 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
- I Shall Not Forget
- Man of a Stormy Era as Shinsuke Kusaka
- Dice and Swords
1967
- My Sweetheart as Director Ishizaki
- Outlaw's Gold as 立原英次
- Hawk of the Harbour
- A Warm Misty Night as Tôru Sagara
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
- Showdown in the Red Valley as Shingo Kazama
- Why Are We Young? as Kensuke Nonomura
- In Tears as Hiroshi
1964
1963
1962
- 零戦黒雲一家
- A Man with Dragon Tattoos
- Love in Ginza
- I Hate But Love as Daisaku Kita
- Fresh Leaves as Shintaro Masaki
- Rainbow Over Kinmon as 武井一郎
- Seinen no isu
- Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi
- Facing to the Clouds
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
- Yakuza sensei
- The Cards Will Tell
- The Brawler as Taro Uno
- Wait for Tomorrow as Kôhei Misugi
- The Day of Youth
- Man at the Bullfight as Tôu Kitami
- Showdown at Shirogane Castle
- Ajisai no uta
1959
- The Stream of Youth
- The Wild Reporter as Toshio Ishimatsu
- A Man Explodes
- The Sky Is Mine
- A Love that Wagers the World as Yuji Muraoka
- We Live Today as Shiro
- Dream Young Man's Dream
- The Echo of Love
- When a Man Risks His Life
- Yujiro in Europe as (Self)
1958
- That Wonderful Guy as Takeo
- A Slope in the Sun as Shinji Tashiro
- Fangs of Night
- Crimson Wings as Koji Ishida
- Rusty Knife as Yukihiko Tachibana
- Showdown in the Storm
- Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku as Kenji Matsuyama
- The Man Who Rode the Typhoon as Hayao Taki
- Red Pier as Jiro
1957
- A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era as Shinsaku Takasugi
- Dancing Sisters as Daisuke Yamano
- I Am Waiting as Jôji Shimaki
- This Day's Life
- The Champion as Shuntaro Fuma
- Man Who Causes a Storm as Shoichi Kokubu
- Birth of a Jazz Maiden as Haruo Nanjô
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Senkichi Nomura
- Harbor Rats
1956
- Crazed Fruit as Takishima Natsuhisa
- The Baby Carriage as Muneo Aizawa
- Season of the Sun
- Song of the Underworld as "Diamond" Fuyu
- Lunar Eclipse
- Human Torpedoes Attack