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Shinsuke Ashida (芦田伸介, Ashida Shinsuke, 14 March 1914 – 10 January 1999) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1952 and 1996.
Total trailers found: 144
27 November 1956
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
27 January 1963
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love.
18 May 1966
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.
04 March 1962
Kawanishi Kyu and Tomoda Ryoji, two waifs, are inmates of a Reform School. One night, the boys succeed in a mass escape and split up.
30 May 1966
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
20 September 1959
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on the side of justice of the divine ghost.
21 October 1959
The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.
09 April 1983
Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political history after the war.
18 March 1955
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other.
04 July 1987
Adaptation of the classic masterpiece about the relationship between parents and their children.
16 December 1959
Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.
14 August 1964
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan.
29 September 1973
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime.
31 March 1954
A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful.
23 April 1987
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo.
29 August 1992
A bumbling stockbroker-turned-yakuza is tasked with ensuring that an alcoholic boss is up to the task of arbitrating his syndicate's succession ceremony.
08 October 1960
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
09 November 1985
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara.
18 November 1958
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war.
16 June 1959
A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.
08 September 1966
Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.
29 April 1960
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group.
21 January 1978
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect.
10 June 1989
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
07 February 1987
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities.
03 April 1976
Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice.
07 October 1989
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.
07 October 1978
Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for which he is responsible.
15 January 1958
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
15 January 1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service.
26 September 1981
Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown.
29 October 1977
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
01 April 1953
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process.
05 July 1955
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir.
23 November 1978
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue.
22 October 1983
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue.
15 September 1992
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
29 April 1961
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
11 July 1956
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending.
26 March 1956
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.
01 October 1966
In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war.
17 June 1989
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military.
25 March 1964
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles.
12 July 1956
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.
09 April 1988
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise.
01 March 1968
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam.
29 January 1956
East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name suggests.
28 April 1979
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
