Saburo Ishikura

Saburo Ishikura

Birth : 1946-12-16, Uchinomi, Kagawa, Japan

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Saburo Ishikura (石倉 三郎 Ishikura Saburō, born December 16, 1946 in Kagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi (2003) as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid (2002). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Saburo Ishikura
Saburo Ishikura

Movies

虎の流儀 激突!燃える嵐の関門編
SAKURAFUMI
A beautiful but sad story about an Oiran who never smiles. Produced and staged by PARCO Theater.
Hazard Lights
Kurosawa
Sugai works as a driver at a chauffeur service company at night. On the night of a full moon weekend, he is told to pair up with a newcomer Kariya. Kariya is a mysterious young guy who gives a silly quiz to Sugai while they work. Sometime later, a drag queen comes to the office and asks for Sugai, saying that someone is trying to kill him. Sugai actually has a past that he could never forget. His colleague tells him that on the night of a full moon weekend something bad would happen...
龍虎の理
Eien no Nispa
Shindo Sashichiro
Takeshiro Matsuura was a Japanese explorer who was the first person to document the inner reaches of what is now known as Hokkaido. He explored the area extensively during the mid 19th century and created a map of the island that included parts which had been ignored by earlier cartographers. He visited Ainu communities and compiled records of the large numbers of the population who had been conscripted for forced labor far from their homes. Matsuura suggested the name Hokkaido for the area
The Voice of Obo
A former boxer leads an unsettled life without any purpose as if he gets away from the pain of his shattered dream. One day, Shuta finds his girlfriend is pregnant. Since he takes it as another cross to bear, he decides to leave to go back to his hometown escaping from taking all the responsibility.
Lenses on Her Heart
Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile. He gradually falls for Akane, who soothes him with her positive outlook and cheerful disposition, but Akane has a boyfriend who has a limited amount of time left to live.
Magic Kimono
“Magic Kimono” tells the story of middle-aged Japanese woman Keiko, who has been living in a shell for decades due to a family tragedy in Kobe. The modest act of eating and the sensations it gives us provided Keiko a lifeline to survive. Unwillingly, she joins a group of Japanese women traveling to Northern Europe to participate in a kimono show in the fairytale-like art nouveau world of Riga. During her performance, Keiko suddenly comes face to face with her husband, who disappeared twenty years ago and now wants to read-dress their relationship and who Keiko has become.
鬼平犯科帳 THE FINAL 後編 雲竜剣
Golden Orchestra
Toryo
Chizuru (Anne Watanabe) is the new teacher at Umega High School. Since her school days, she has played violin in an orchestra. One day, she listens to an amateur orchestra play at the local cultural hall. She is touched by their performance and decides to enroll in the orchestra, but there are 2 orchestras in town. Chizuru mistakenly enrolls in the orchestra which consists of elderly people. The members there are thrilled to have a young person join their group. Chizuru is unable to tell them she made a mistake and becomes the conductor for their orchestra.
TSUMUGU
Takeo
Echizen Washi artisan Takeo has lived in emotional isolation since the death of his wife, but he collapses due to a brain tumor and is in need of care. Yona, a Korean woman in Japan on a working holiday, comes to his aid. Stubborn Takeo and pushy Yona butt heads repeatedly, but gradually Takeo opens up under Yona's care.
Onmitsu Hicho
Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the murder of Tanuma Okitsugu's son Mototomo by Sano Masakoto. Those events are a matter of history but the plot that Hiroshi unveils and is eventually killed for is fictional.
Osaka Love & Soul
Osaka Love & Soul (TV film) Drama 2010, 75 min
Faces of a Fig Tree
Comedy about a woman who finds a new life after she loses her busband.
Murder of the Inugami Clan
Fujisaki Kanshiki-ka-in
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case
Choji Murasato
A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Zatoichi
Ogi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Kichiku
Asakusa Kid
Senzaburō Fukami
After dropping out of college, "Takeshi" jumps into the Asakusa France Theater and begins his training as a comedian. His teacher, Senzaburo Fukami, Masayoshi Inoue, who also trains at the French Theater and aspires to be a writer, and other good-natured dancers... This heartwarming and moving drama set in Asakusa vividly depicts the process of "Takeshi's" self-discovery through interaction with his delightful friends.
Kah-chan
Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
Yakuza Ladies 11
When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.
Return Of Happiness
Dora-heita
A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own misperceptions and prejudices to defeat his enemies and uproot corruption.
Shinsengumi
Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.
The 8-Tomb Village
A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.
47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
Detective Story
Peesuke: Gatapishi monogatari
Based on the comic book series by Shunji Sonoyama.
Music Box
Senkichi
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Hachiko
Machida (uncredited)
The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death.
Karate Cop 5
Congratulatory Speech
A man who speaks soliloquy on a train
Joke with a Sorrowful Heart
This is a sad and beautiful story about a father who is a popular comedian and a son who suffered by an incurable disease.
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
The Catch
Kishimoto
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
さすらい署長風間昭平スペシャル 塩屋岬いわき殺人事件