Kishibe Ittoku

Kishibe Ittoku is a Japanese actor and musician. He originally entered show business as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands, The Tigers and Pyg, but later switched to acting. The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award for Shi no toge in 1991 and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994.

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Name Kishibe Ittoku

Nationality Japanese

Gender Male

Born January 9, 1947

Age 75

Type Japanese

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Popularity #22

Movie

When Shoichi learns that a former coworker is behind a publisized murder, he takes it to social media to reveal that he knows the murderer. But when he agrees to be interviewed by the media, his life is about to change. (Source: Japanese Film Festival Magazine)

It has been three months since the small passenger ship "Yobuko Maru" went missing in the coastal area of Onomichi. The ship has encountered a storm, after which the fate of the nine passengers is unknown. The remaining lovers, husbands, wives, and families received a series of mysterious messages s...

Drama

Choi Joon Woong seeks a job, but it's hard for him to get hired. One night, he witnesses a man trying to end his life and decides to stop him. He gets acquainted with grim reapers Koo Ryeon and Im Ryoong Gu, who belong to a crisis management team. Their purpose is to prevent people from committing s...

Hiroto Miyama is a poor lawyer who takes on criminal cases, but he is unable to make money. He pursues the truth for the 0.1% out of Japan's 99.9% conviction rate. One day, Hiroto is scouted by Haruhiko Madarame. Haruhiko Madarame is the head of Madarame Law Firm which is one of the biggest law firm...

Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor placement service” that has her wander from hospital to hospital. The harsh environment at the hospitals led many doctors to retire from their positions, forcing hospitals to make use of said program to fill the...

Miyama Hiroto is a young lawyer who seeks justice for the innocent (in a country with a 99.9% conviction rate). He works for Madarame Law Firm. At the law firm, Hiroto Miyama works with Sada Atsuhiro. They attempt to uncover truths in cases requested by their clients. Former Judge Ozaki Maiko joins...

The story continues with Michiko still working as a freelance doctor at the Teito University Hospital. Enjoying herself at a horse-race in Hokkaido from an invite by Dr Kanbara Akira, Michiko happens to chance upon a scene at the owners' box. The elegant woman draped in a fur coat, sipping champagne...

Set within the fictional city of Mahoro, Keisuke Tada and Haruhiko Gyoten are two thirty something divorced men who run a “benriya” (odd jobs for hire) business. The drama series depicts their interactions with clients in their agency, which is located across the street from a station.

It has been a year since the downfall of Hiruma Shigekatsu who had engaged in dirty hospital politics. Teito Medical University Hospital enters a new era with its first female hospital director. She touts “Patients first” and presses forward with big reforms to clean up the medical department. Howev...

Ryutaro Asada, a renegade but brilliant surgeon, was being framed for a misdiagnosis and let go by the North Japanese Hospital. He went into exile and lived in a seaside shack when he was visited by Akira Kato, assistant professor of the Faculty of Cardiac Surgery at Meishin University Medical Hospi...

Surgeon Daimon Michiko is sent to Totei University Hospital this time. Although it reigns as the top university hospital in the country, the hospital’s reputation has suffered greatly from various cover-ups, medical malpractice and fighting factions. Furthermore, the person who has snatched the seat...

Several years after the conclusion of Iryu 2, Team Medical Dragon is once again reassembled to revive a faltering Meishin University Hospital.

Totei University Hospital has built a massive deficit. Investor Nicholas Tange, whose nickname is Vulture, comes up with a turnaround plan for the hospital. His plan implements restructuring and cost cutting. By Nicholas Tange’s request, Michiko Daimon begins to work at the Totei University Hospital...

In Iryu 2, Asada Ryutaro is waging a new battle against the realities of Japan's medical care system. The government has developed legislation to combat the recent inflation of medical expenses; hospitals have entered an era of bankruptcy if they are not independently managed. At the same time, merg...

Kuroki Kurodo was an extremely competent teacher at a prestigious cram school for the middle school entrance exam. He begins to work as the director of a cram school with poor performance. He declares that the students here will pass their middle school examinations. Kurodo states a cram school is a...

Toto Bank President Ichihara is in a hotel suite romancing his secretary Nana when he suddenly loses consciousness. Four women arrive to perform CPR, but their efforts to save him are in vain. They calmly rid the room of evidence, then ensure the deletion of all records pertaining to the president’...

The 79th NHK Asadora is Dandan, a story about twin girls Megumi and Nozomi who had been separated at birth by their parent's divorce, but meet unexpectedly and discover their tight bonding. Together they decide to seek their career in singing. Tajima Megumi is an active high school girl in Shimane p...

A worldwide pandemic causes the medical system to collapse across the world, including Japan. Under this very difficult situation, the best university hospital in Japan, Totei University Hospital, makes the decision to focus on infectious disease and internal treatments, while postponing any noncrit...

On Hatomi, a small island in Okinawa state part of Japan's southern sea frontier, the social environment is suffering. With the last student of the elementary school leaving the place, the closing of the school is a virtual given. Mr. Nakama decides to do something about it and heads for Tokyo to...

Kanbe Takeru chose to remain in the special missions division, but he seems to continue to keep a certain distance with his direct superior, Sugishita Ukyo. One day, the corpse of a popular novelist, Mizumoto Shoko, was found in her own house. The possibility of a grudge-fed murder is high according...

The task force is not considered as important as it might seem. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and headed by Ukyo Sugishita. Together with its partner, played by Terawaki Yasufumi, this team is the Japanese version of The Odd Couple, solving interestless...

The Special Mission Task Team is not considered as important as it might sound. It's positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and headed by Ukyo Sugishita. Together with his partner, Kaoru Kameyama, this team is Japan’s version of The Odd Couple, solving clueless cases...

The task force is not considered as important as it might seem. It is placed in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and headed by Ukyo Sugishita. Together with its partner, played by Terawaki Yasufumi, this team is the Japanese version of The Odd Couple, solving interestless bus...

Tokumei Gakari (Special Mission Task Team) is not considered as important as it might sound. It is positioned in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and so-called as the “oversized garbage dealer”. Ukyo Sugishita is the head of this Tokumei Gakari. As people rumor that anyone wh...

Kodera Masao, the president of Japan’s largest newspaper has finally reached a decision. He has assessed that the sale of his newspaper, which is a symbol of Japan, to a foreign investor is inevitable after a sharp decline in circulation and faltering advertising revenue. The buyer is Aoi Sota, the...

Inspector Sugishita Ukyo, head of the Special Missions Division, returns from London and returns home in the sports car of Deputy Inspector Kanbe Takeru, who came to meet him at Narita airport when Ukyo had not asked him. However, on the way back, Ukyo notes police officers of the Metropolitan Polic...

The task force is not considered as important as it might seem. It is placed in the lowest section of the Metropolitan Police Department and headed by Ukyo Sugishita. With its partner, Kaoru Kameyama, this team is the Japanese version of The Odd Couple, solving interestless business in an original a...

The series centers around Akechi Kogoro, the third generation in a line of famous detectives. Though he’s inherited his famous grandfather’s deductive ability, he’s weak-willed with a bit of a cowardly streak, making him an all-too-human sleuth. Though he’s sometimes dragged kicking and screaming in...

During the summer when he was 17, his private tutor Ozawa Maria, who was then a university student, left him with this last message, “I’ll be your girlfriend after you qualify for university and become an adult.” Then she suddenly disappeared from his life. He still dreams of her sometimes. Even now...

In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective Omura already is at the scene of the crime. During their investigation,they get closer to finding out the identi...

Iga Kan works in a family restaurant. He is sincere, but rigid in his manners. He can't even simulate smiles for his clients. Kan does not have a good reputation with his colleagues or clients, but Kurosu Kanako recognizes something in him. Kanako is a mysterious woman. She told Kan that she would s...

Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of work in a hard prison camp in Siberia. After 11 years in prison, he was released. He returned to Japan and began to adapt to civilian life, refusing his...

A spin-off story of the "Heaven?: Gokuraku Restaurant " that is not shown on normal broadcast. See the other side of their strange daily life! (Source: Paravi)

Monzaemon Chikamatsu is a middle-age dramatist of jōruri (form of puppet theater that preceded bunraku and kabuki), but he is in a slump. His wife left him and his mother is fed up with him. All he does now is drink. The man then meets a gambler named Mankichi and his life begins to change.

Special work to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of Japan . Later one, James Miki who also was screenwriter for the production, published a book based on the drama script. Special contains two parts, named "Symbol Emperor" and "Abandonment of War". ~~Adapt...

Based on novel by Yamasaki Toyoko, screenplay by Habara Daisuke and directed by Tsuruhashi Yasuo. The era setting is changed from the Showa 30's to the year 2019.

The 54th NHK Asadora Renzoku Drama is Himawari. Story's settings include Tokyo and Fukushima Prefecture.

Surgeon Kaji Hideki, who was transferred to Teito Medical University’s Shizuoka 11th Branch Hospital, has a completely unexpected proposal made to him by hospital director Ito Shuichi. Ito wants to nominate Kaji to be a professor at the next election. While Kaji is exceedingly interested in money, h...

Money-loving surgeon Kaji Hideki who goes the nickname “laparoscope magician”, loses his head over a big paycheck of 500,000 yen and agrees to be the doctor on duty at Honokura Hospital in the mountains surrounded by nature. Along the way, meaningful words “nothing on this day” are aimed at him by t...

Surgeon Kaji Hideki has earned himself the nickname “laparoscope magician”. He is skilled but greedy. Because he chose money over title and power, his career progression has been slower than his peers. Kaji gets demoted to Teito Medical University Hospital’s Takamatsu 24th Branch Hospital for assist...

Moriyama Kouhei quit his job as a doctor 8 years ago and now works at the city hall. Since becoming a public official, he has become cheerful and optimistic. He is loved by everyone around him. However, his emotional wound from the past is not yet healed. He does not trust anyone but himself when it...

Sato Ikuo is a houseman who works for the internal medicine department. Not wanting to burden his mother, who brought him up as a single mother, he obtained a scholarship from a nearby public university and enrolled in its medical faculty. After that, he met Kaede, the only daughter of Kawamura Kozo...

Everything seems normal until the Oriental Air 402 plane is swallowed into some kind of energy and disappears. Ten years after having everyone think the plane had mysteriously crashed and everyone died, in 2006, it reappears as if nothing had happened. Now the passengers of 402 apparently can experi...

The story of Tomorrow spans over 8 years, including love and friendship. It narrates a high school sports athlete, Yuan Cheng Mei, who was injured due to a practice session in school. At that time, there was a stranger who saved her and therefore, that's how this story started. (Source: DramaWiki)...

In November 1997, Yamaichi Securities, one of Japan’s four largest brokerages, announced that it would voluntarily close down. Even its top brass had not been apprised of an approximate 260 billion yen of debt that was off the books until just before it happened. Off-the-books debt is against the la...

After graduating third-rate university, Marilyn manages to get a job at an established trading company through a family connection. But she is assigned to a trivial department where her colleagues have already been dropped out of promotional competition. Despite the circumstances, she cheerfully dev...

With the strong yen, global financial crisis and competition from developing nations, the Japanese manufacturing industry is in a precarious situation. A large electronics maker is on the brink of bankruptcy and can support itself for only 3 more months. Three men at the company, who work in sales,...

Toshi-chan and BB live in a hut with a blue sheet on the banks of the Tama River. Having lived there for several years, they are familiar with the area. The two of them gather cans across town from 4 am in the morning and sleep at 7 pm in order to save money on electricity at night. While they do no...

The 75th NHK Asadora is Imo Tako Nankin. The series takes place in 1962 Osaka. This asadora is based on an essay written by an award-winning writer Tanabe Seiko about her life. Hanaoka Machiko, 37, is single and works at a hardware store in Osaka City while doing literary work. One day, she falls il...

Nozomi is a Taiwanese woman married to Shinji, a Japanese businessman from Taipei. Their relationship is excellent until Shinji is forced to return to Japan to take over the family home. The conflict begins with Nozomi and her mother-in-law (Source: groink).

Shu is a senior at a low-ranked university. Kotomi is a struggling model. Keiko has a desk job at a small company. All of them are former classmates from junior high school. All of them are not satisfied with their current lives and want to find something better but can't seem to. Reflecting many of...

"Machiben" centers around four lawyers who help the weak and downtrodden of their town.

~~Adapted from Seizo's Okada (岡田誠三) novel "Lost Salaryman" (はずれサラリーマン)

Amami’s character is going to be that of a legendary musical star who just returned to Japan after several setbacks on the Broadway in New York. Back home, she’s going to use all of her energy and experience to help a Mamasan Korus called “Chansons” from having to break up. In order to do that, she...

The 55th NHK Asadora Drama is Futarikko. Born over a tofu shop in Osaka, twin sisters Reiko and Kyoko have very different characters. Reiko is diligent, and longs for a secure, middle class lifestyle. Kyoko is a free spirit, who seeks thrills and adventure. We follow them on a roller coaster story o...

A family drama that warmly depicts the various relationships between three generations of women and three people with humour.(Source:TVDrama-db)

One day, a middle-aged man, Fujimoto Makoto, is standing on a train platform, about to jump in front of a train. Nakashiro Kana and Tasaki Shota both happen to be on the same platform, and sensing what is about to happen, they quickly pull him back to safety. There's a reason why Kana and Shota real...

Drama Special

A huge hurdle stands in the way of super doctor Kaji Hideki who is called the “laparoscope magician”. He currently works at Yokohama Branch Hospital which is affiliated to Teito Medical University, but he surprisingly keeps making mistakes in his forte – laparoscopic surgery. These days, Kaji’s eyes...

Seven years ago, when Kaji Hideki was still a surgeon at Teito Medical University’s Maebashi 27th Branch Hospital, he carried out an operation in absolute secrecy. That operation saved the life of Osawa Shoichiro, who recovered from a brain tumor and went on to win the elections in Gunma Prefecture....

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