In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife Read More »
Tag Archives: Ryo Ishibashi
Leave My Girl Alone AKA Bokuno onna ni teodasuna (1986) Shun Nakahara, Kyôko Koizumi, Ryo Ishibashi, Teppei Yamada
A financially desperate young woman gets a job tutoring a rich young boy Read More »
Suicide Club AKA Jisatsu sâkuru (2001) Sion Sono, Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho
54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train. Read More »
Another Lonely Hitman AKA Shin kanashiki hittoman (1995) Rokuro Mochizuki, Ryo Ishibashi, Kazuhiko Kanayama, Asami Sawaki
Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. Read More »
An Obsession AKA Tsumetai chi (1997) Shinji Aoyama, Ryo Ishibashi, Yôzaburô Itô, Eiko Nagashima
An Obsession is Aoyama’s remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa’s Stray Dog (“Nora inu,” 1949). Read More »
Waru (2006) Takashi Miike, Shô Aikawa, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ryo Ishibashi
A member of the Yakuza is imprisoned for violent behaviour including fighting another group of thugs. Read More »
American Yakuza (1993) Frank A. Cappello, Viggo Mortensen, Ryo Ishibashi, Michael Nouri, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
After Nick Davis leaves prison after a year in solitaire, he’s hired to run forklift in a warehouse at the sanctuary possessed by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. Read More »