Shinsuke Ashida Movies

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

1959 Japanese movie

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...

1962 Japanese movie

Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are...

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

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...

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love...

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

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. An...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

Japanese drama film.

The events of the film are based on the real facts of the Pacific War, when in June 1944 the American troops began landing on the Saipan island. On...

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima.

An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite...

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.