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