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Yūjirō Ishihara
Acting
Born: December 28, 1934
Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Yūjirō Ishihara (石原 裕次郎, Ishihara Yūjirō, December 28, 1934 – July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.[1] His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the 1956 film Season of the Sun, based on a novel written by his brother. He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver cancer.
Known For
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
as Yamamoto
Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth
as Phantom F. Harlock I
Crazed Fruit
as Takishima Natsuhisa
Man Who Causes a Storm
as Shoichi Kokubu
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as Shinsaku Takasugi
Incident at Blood Pass
as Yataro
Tenchu!
as Ryoma Sakamoto
Samurai Banners
as Kenshin Uesugi
The Sands of Kurobe
as Iwaoka
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
as Shinozaki Ryoki
