Issei Ishida

Issei Ishida (いしだ 壱成, Ishida Issei, December 7, 1974) is a Japanese actor and musician born in Tokyo. His real name is Issei Hoshikawa (星川 一星, Hoshikawa Issei, née: 石田 (Ishida)).

Hey Japanese! Do You Believe in Love, Peace and Understanding? (2008)

A gonzo black comedy with six intertwining stories set in the streets of Tokyo about the ongoing battle between the Internet generation and the older generation.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryotaro Muramatsu
CAST:  Sayaka Kanda  •  Yakkun Sakurazuka  •  Issei Ishida  •  Chiharu Kawai

A gonzo black comedy with six intertwining stories set in the streets of Tokyo about the ongoing battle between the Internet generation and the older generation.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ryotaro Muramatsu
CAST:  Sayaka Kanda  •  Yakkun Sakurazuka  •  Issei Ishida  •  Chiharu Kawai

The House of Rising Sun (2013)

The Hirata are a typical family residing in picturesque Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture. Their lives are thrown in chaos when an earthquake strikes and causes a nearby nuclear power plant to explode. They must evacuate their home.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takafumi Ota
CAST:  Shirô Namiki  •  Tomoko Saitō  •  Izumi Hirasawa  •  Wakana Hashimoto

The Hirata are a typical family residing in picturesque Kosai, Shizuoka Prefecture. Their lives are thrown in chaos when an earthquake strikes and causes a nearby nuclear power plant to explode. They must evacuate their home.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takafumi Ota
CAST:  Shirô Namiki  •  Tomoko Saitō  •  Izumi Hirasawa  •  Wakana Hashimoto

Hero Interview (1994)

Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently, she vigorously performs research and interviews. Her fiance, Ishii (Shingo Tsurumi) is an elite in the same company. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michio Mitsuno
CAST:  Hiroyuki Sanada  •  Honami Suzuki  •  Tetsuya Takeda  •  Issei Ishida

Kasumi Sawaki (Honami Suzuki) works for a top-ranked newspaper publishing company as a capable economic reporter. Speaking six languages fluently, she vigorously performs research and interviews. Her fiance, Ishii (Shingo Tsurumi) is an elite in the same company. ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michio Mitsuno
CAST:  Hiroyuki Sanada  •  Honami Suzuki  •  Tetsuya Takeda  •  Issei Ishida

Strange Circus (2005)

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sion Sono
CAST:  Rie Kuwana  •  Masumi Miyazaki  •  Seiko Iwaido  •  Issei Ishida

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sion Sono
CAST:  Rie Kuwana  •  Masumi Miyazaki  •  Seiko Iwaido  •  Issei Ishida

Balloon Club Revisited (2006)

Mitsuko Murakami puts the passion to balloon in the hot-air balloon Circle "Airheads". The club gathered young people holding a variety of thoughts. But "Airheads" is disbanded not too long. Five years after their time in the Balloon Club ended, the members' former ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sion Sono
CAST:  Motoki Fukami  •  Yukie Kawamura  •  Tomoharu Hasegawa  •  Hiromi Nagasaku

Mitsuko Murakami puts the passion to balloon in the hot-air balloon Circle "Airheads". The club gathered young people holding a variety of thoughts. But "Airheads" is disbanded not too long. Five years after their time in the Balloon Club ended, the members' former ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sion Sono
CAST:  Motoki Fukami  •  Yukie Kawamura  •  Tomoharu Hasegawa  •  Hiromi Nagasaku

RE:BORN (2016)

A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past decides to unleash once again his beast within to stand up for what he cares about.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuji Shimomura
CAST:  Tak Sakaguchi  •  Yura Kondo  •  Takumi Saitoh  •  Hitomi Hasebe

A legend covert soldier with a mysterious past decides to unleash once again his beast within to stand up for what he cares about.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuji Shimomura
CAST:  Tak Sakaguchi  •  Yura Kondo  •  Takumi Saitoh  •  Hitomi Hasebe

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo (2016)

Maki Iizuka (Nozomi Sasaki) works as an editor for a wedding magazine in Tokyo. She is set to marry Kazunori Nakamura (Yuta Hiraoka) next month, when her grandmother dies. Her grandmother was like a mom to Maki. While Maki arranges items left by her grandmother, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Horiuchi
CAST:  Nozomi Sasaki  •  Yuta Hiraoka  •  Tomiyuki Kunihiro  •  Toshie Negishi

Maki Iizuka (Nozomi Sasaki) works as an editor for a wedding magazine in Tokyo. She is set to marry Kazunori Nakamura (Yuta Hiraoka) next month, when her grandmother dies. Her grandmother was like a mom to Maki. While Maki arranges items left by her grandmother, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hiroshi Horiuchi
CAST:  Nozomi Sasaki  •  Yuta Hiraoka  •  Tomiyuki Kunihiro  •  Toshie Negishi

Rokuroku: The Promise of the Witch (2018)

A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yudai Yamaguchi  •  Keita Amemiya
CAST:  Miho Nakanishi  •  Shiho  •  Luna Tamano  •  Karia Nomoto

A quiet woman receives a social media request from a middle-school friend, who she doesn’t remember fondly. The two meet at a hotel’s restaurant where they find a room numbered 666 containing Rokuroku, a long-neck woman wearing a red kimono.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yudai Yamaguchi  •  Keita Amemiya
CAST:  Miho Nakanishi  •  Shiho  •  Luna Tamano  •  Karia Nomoto

Yûri (1996)

Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend. Masayuki joins the journey.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuji Sakamoto
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Maki Sakai  •  Masatoshi Nagase  •  Yosuke Eguchi

Masayuki meets Nanami, who is on a journey with a refrigerator named Ullie. Nanami's Iranian friend Amir is helping her haul the refrigerator which contains Nanami's dead boyfriend. Masayuki joins the journey.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yuji Sakamoto
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Maki Sakai  •  Masatoshi Nagase  •  Yosuke Eguchi

Ignatius (1996)

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DIRECTION:  Shoji Tanaka
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Isako Washio  •  Takanori Higuchi  •  Miyuki Komatsu

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DIRECTION:  Shoji Tanaka
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Isako Washio  •  Takanori Higuchi  •  Miyuki Komatsu

The Aurora (2000)

Deep-sea archeologist Hiroshi Ibuki is the member of the digging team working at the bottom of the sea hoping to uncover the origins of Earth's existence but instead uncovers a mysterious colony of bacteria which gives off light similar to the Aurora Borealis. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshinori Sugano
CAST:  Shigeru Chiba  •  Toshio Furukawa  •  Takaya Hashi  •  Megumi Okina

Deep-sea archeologist Hiroshi Ibuki is the member of the digging team working at the bottom of the sea hoping to uncover the origins of Earth's existence but instead uncovers a mysterious colony of bacteria which gives off light similar to the Aurora Borealis. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yoshinori Sugano
CAST:  Shigeru Chiba  •  Toshio Furukawa  •  Takaya Hashi  •  Megumi Okina

Tears (2008)

A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takahisa Zeze
CAST:  Kanako Kojima  •  Issei Ishida  •  Aiko Sato  •  Izou Oikawa

A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takahisa Zeze
CAST:  Kanako Kojima  •  Issei Ishida  •  Aiko Sato  •  Izou Oikawa

Elephant Love (2009)

A story of one man and four women. Tomoaki Chiba has been enjoying the single life since he divorced his childhood friend Chie some years ago. He's now dating a young girl named Ayano as well as an older woman, Makiko. One day his elder cousin Aiko returns after a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tadashi Nohara
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Akiko Uchida  •  Maki Meguro  •  Azusa Takehana

A story of one man and four women. Tomoaki Chiba has been enjoying the single life since he divorced his childhood friend Chie some years ago. He's now dating a young girl named Ayano as well as an older woman, Makiko. One day his elder cousin Aiko returns after a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tadashi Nohara
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Akiko Uchida  •  Maki Meguro  •  Azusa Takehana

When It Comes... (2018)

An elementary school class that's camping in the mountains is attacked by a clown who picks them off one by one.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hikaru Okita
CAST:  Kanako Hiramatsu  •  Hikari Shiina  •  Issei Ishida

An elementary school class that's camping in the mountains is attacked by a clown who picks them off one by one.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hikaru Okita
CAST:  Kanako Hiramatsu  •  Hikari Shiina  •  Issei Ishida

Captain Tokio (2007)

In the year 20XX, anarchy reigns over Tokyo after a devastating earthquake destroyed the city. Isolated from the rest of the country, the chaos-ridden city is ruled over by an autocratic governor (Izumiya Shigeru) who has forbidden all forms of entertainment ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kazushi Watanabe
CAST:  Eiji Wentz  •  Akiyoshi Nakao  •  Ayako Fujitani  •  Yuki Himura

In the year 20XX, anarchy reigns over Tokyo after a devastating earthquake destroyed the city. Isolated from the rest of the country, the chaos-ridden city is ruled over by an autocratic governor (Izumiya Shigeru) who has forbidden all forms of entertainment ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kazushi Watanabe
CAST:  Eiji Wentz  •  Akiyoshi Nakao  •  Ayako Fujitani  •  Yuki Himura

The Artful Dodgers (1998)

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takuo Yasuda
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Hidetoshi Nishijima  •  Taiji Sato  •  Maiko Asano

Three young Japanese drop-outs are comically adrift in New York  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takuo Yasuda
CAST:  Issei Ishida  •  Hidetoshi Nishijima  •  Taiji Sato  •  Maiko Asano