In Tokyo, Shigeharu Aoyama is a widower that grieves the loss of his wife Read More »
Tag Archives: Ryo Ishibashi
Leave My Girl Alone / Bokuno onna ni teodasuna (1986)
A financially desperate young woman gets a job tutoring a rich young boy Read More »
Suicide Club / 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 (1995) Shin kanashiki hittoman
Tachibana is a mob hit man, just released from 10 years in prison where he kicked his drug habit. Read More »
An Obsession / 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 »