LaSalle Ishii

LaSalle Ishii

Born: October 19, 1955
in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Movies for LaSalle Ishii...

The World Laughs
Title: The World Laughs
Released: August 7, 2022
Type: Movie
This is a human drama written by Keralino Sandorovich showcasing people fascinated with and obsessed with laughter in Shinjuku in the mid-1950s.
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We Couldn't Become Adults
Title: We Couldn't Become Adults
Character: Mitsuo Oguro
Released: November 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Prodded by a friend request, a feckless forty-something recalls his past relationships from the 90s onward, looking for his vanished hopes and dreams.
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The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono
Title: The Devil Wears Ju-Ni Hitoe Kimono
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Rai, a frustrated student and part-time labourer, is wandering home after setting up a museum exhibition on the classic novel "The Tale of Genji". There is a blinding flash of light and he finds himself mysteriously time-slipped into the Heian period, the setting for the famous novel. Armed with a pamphlet on the history of the period and a bottle of headache tablets he passes as an onmyoji (magical protector of the capital) and is hired by the emperor’s wife Nyogo Kokiden. Fearless and coldly analytical she plots to have her son take over the Emperor’s position. Rai is expected to help. This light-hearted historical fantasy is a treat for lovers of sumptuous kimono.
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Stardust Over The Town
Title: Stardust Over The Town
Character: Ichimura Toshiki
Released: March 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Story of the struggling chorus group "Yamada Osamu and the Hello Nights", who gain an unexpected new member in the young Ai, who pursues her dream of becoming a singer.
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The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Title: The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Released: January 20, 2018
Type: Movie
A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.
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Kaeshi 2
Title: Kaeshi 2
Released: December 25, 2017
Type: Movie
After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Yamai is released thanks to Akiko but the search for Miyake's killer begins. Security camera footage reveals Seiji to be the culprit.
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Title: Animation x Paralympic: Who Is Your Hero?
Character: Ryoutsu Kankichi (voice)
Released: November 10, 2017
Type: TV
A series of short animation works focusing on the Para-sport with the aim of delivering the appeal of the Paralympic Games and sport for athletes with an impairment.
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Kaeshi
Title: Kaeshi
Released: November 3, 2017
Type: Movie
After ten years in prison for a high school classmate's murder, Koji gets out and joins the yakuza. But his victim's father has him on his radar. Seiji tries to get on with his life after losing his daughter and wife. Ten years later he learns that his daughter's killer has been freed.
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こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 THE FINAL 両津勘吉 最後の日
Title: こちら葛飾区亀有公園前派出所 THE FINAL 両津勘吉 最後の日
Released: September 18, 2016
Type: Movie
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Desperate Sunflowers
Title: Desperate Sunflowers
Character: Michiya Hagiwara
Released: June 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Natsuko Kotani was born to be a swindler. Meanwhile, Tetsuko Ishida is Natsuko’s distant relative. Unlike Natsuko, Tetsuko is an attorney with an upright disposition. Whenever Natsuko makes trouble, Tetsuko is called to solve her troubles. Believing that Natsuko is using her, Tetsuko, with her boring life, begins to change.
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Spring Has Come
Title: Spring Has Come
Released: October 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Riko, who will begin university in Tokyo in spring, journeys there from Hiroshima in February with her father to find a place for her to live. On their travels, they meet various colorful characters. The father remembers his late wife, and raising his daughter alone. Their fun time together is tinged with the knowledge that it is about to end. Rakugo performer Kyotaro Yanagiya appears in his first leading film role, and rising star Anna Ishii plays the sensitive Riko. The eccentric supporting cast includes Romi Park, Akihiro Kakuta, Keiko Yanagawa, Kei Ishibashi, LaSalle Ishii, and Momiji Yamamura.
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The Little House
Title: The Little House
Character: President Yanagi
Released: January 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.
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KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!
Title: KochiKame - The Movie: Save the Kachidoki Bridge!
Character: Ginji Ryotsu
Released: August 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than not he ends up causing all kinds of trouble. Like on his way to work he away when he is asked to pay up by a shop owner or cheats an elementary school student. Ryotsu's co-workers Reiko Catherine Akimoto (Karina) and Keiichi Nagakawa (Mokomichi Hayami) have had about all they can take from Kankichi and his boss Ohara (Masato Ibu) is constantly berating him.
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About Her Brother
Title: About Her Brother
Character: Policeman
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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Title: KochiKame: The TV Drama
Character: Ginji Ryotsu
Released: August 1, 2009
Type: TV
Ryotsu Kankichi, nicknamed Ryo-san, is a senior patrol officer working at the Kamearikoen-mae police box at Katsushika. Because of his daring, hearty, unconventional, haughty and overbearing personality, he is called "letter of apology Ryo-san" and everything he does is nonsense. There is endless trouble wherever Ryo-san goes. He makes Akimoto Catherine Reiko and Nakagawa Keiichi, his juniors from the same police box, fearful. His superior, Ohara-buchou, lives each day as if lightning will strike as a fearless power keeps going off day after day. He definitely doesn't have poor ability as a "patrolman of the police box" in the mediation of quarrels, taking care of New Year's gifts or discussion of neighbourhood problems but he has a bad temper, gets tired of things easily and detests working. He is a police officer but because he loves gambling, he spends his money recklessly and in addition to this mess, is heavily in debt. He has a weakness for get rich quick schemes, and has a manic desire and knowledge to have fun and make money. Then one day, Ryo-san receives a tempting proposition...
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Ikiru
Title: Ikiru
Released: September 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Remake of Kurosawa Akira‘s Ikiru
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Three for the Road
Title: Three for the Road
Released: July 11, 2007
Type: Movie
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KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!
Title: KochiKame the Movie 2: UFO Attack! The Great Tornado Strategy!!
Character: Ryotsu Kankichi (voice)
Released: December 20, 2003
Type: Movie
The movie starts off with Ryotsu (with Honda as his patsy) hatching another crackpot scam with a fake UFO sighting (via fake crop circles and a wire-hanging UFO). But the plan fails per usual, with the Kameari Park Police Box which results in Ohara punishes Ryotsu by subtracting him from the station's group vacation to Hawaii the following day.
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Get Up!
Title: Get Up!
Released: October 5, 2003
Type: Movie
A James Brown fanatic gangster decided to disband his own gang and see his long lost daughter before entering prison. Hoping to change his mind, his underlings planned to kidnap James Brown to convince him to perform privately for their boss.
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Title: M-1 Grand Prix
Released: December 25, 2001
Type: TV
The next generation of Manzai duos compete in a fierce battle of wits and laughter, unleashing their best material for a chance at comedic glory.
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Currency and Blonde
Title: Currency and Blonde
Released: January 22, 2000
Type: Movie
A university professor's secret passion: a fetish for "blonde hair." His fantasies gradually escalate into reality.
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KochiKame: The Movie
Title: KochiKame: The Movie
Character: Ryotsu Kankichi (voice)
Released: December 23, 1999
Type: Movie
Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings from the Shinatora corporation seem to be targeted by the mysterious Benten.
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The King of Minami 13
Title: The King of Minami 13
Released: March 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Title: Gamera 2: Attack of Legion
Character: NTT worker
Released: July 12, 1996
Type: Movie
A strange meteor lands in Japan and unleashes hundreds of insect-like "Legion" creatures bent on colonizing the Earth. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary. However the battle may result in Gamera losing his bond with both Asagi and humanity.
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Title: KochiKame
Character: Kankichi Ryoutsu
Released: June 16, 1996
Type: TV
Ryoutsu, being an underpayed policeman, is always coming up with ways to make some quick money. But in the end, his plans which are ridiculous from the beginning always go wrong and land him in big trouble.
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Some Kinda Love
Title: Some Kinda Love
Released: May 25, 1996
Type: Movie
The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a beauty obsessed by UFOs.
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Title: Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
Character: Hideyuki Ichiya
Released: January 28, 1989
Type: Movie
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
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The Girl in Glass
Title: The Girl in Glass
Released: December 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.
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Title: おヒマなら来てよネ!
Character: 大久保毅 - 石井章雄
Released: October 22, 1987
Type: TV
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Title: Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Character: Genji Oshima
Released: July 26, 1986
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Title: Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Released: December 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Burst City
Title: Burst City
Character: Speed Killer
Released: April 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.