Ittoku Kishibe

Ittoku Kishibe (岸部 一徳, Kishibe Ittoku; born 9 January 1947), born Shūzō Kishibe (岸部 修三, Kishibe Shūzō), is a Japanese actor and musician.

Ittoku Kishibe
Ittoku at the 37th Tokyo International Film Festival in 2024
Born	Shūzō Kishibe (1947-01-09) 9 January 1947 (age 78) Kyoto, Occupation of Japan
Other names	Sally, Osami Kishibe
Occupation(s)	Actor, musician
Years active	1967–present
Relatives	Shiro Kishibe (brother)

Career

He originally entered show business as the bassist for the Japanese rock bands, The Tigers and Pyg, but later switched to acting.^[1] The veteran of over 115 films, he won the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award for The Sting of Death in 1991,^[2] and was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor award in 1994. He appeared in Toshiyuki Morioka's Jokyo Monogatari in 2013.^[3]

Selected filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1983	Toki o Kakeru Shōjo	Toshimi Fukushima
1984	The Funeral	Akira
1985	Lonely Heart	Tetsu Yoshida
	Gray Sunset	Yoshikazu Ishimoto
1986	His Motorbike, Her Island	News reporter
	Final Take	Director Ogata
1987	Tokyo Blackout	Yasuhara
1989	Violent Cop	Nito
1990	The Sting of Death	Toshio
1991	Rainbow Kids	Daisaku Yanagawa	[4]
	Chizuko's Younger Sister
1993	Rampo	Cafe owner
	Kaettekita Kogarashi Monjirō
	Samurai Kids
1996	Sleeping Man	Chief
1999	Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl	Tanuki
	Keiho	Inspector Nagoshi
2000	Face	Eiichi Hanada
	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity	Awano
2001	Onmyoji	The Emperor
2003	Get Up!	Kaneyama
	Zatoichi	Boss Inosuke Ginzo
2004	69	Matsunaga sensei
	Survive Style 5+	Tatsuya Kobayashi
	Vital	Dr. Kashiwabuchi
	Lady Joker	Seiichi Shirai
2005	Itsuka dokusho suruhi	Takanashi
	Aegis
2006	Hula Girls	Norio Yoshimoto
	Waiting in the Dark		[5]
2007	Battery
	Hero	Kaoru Kayama
	Adrift in Tokyo	Ittoku Kishibe (himself)
2008	10 Promises to My Dog
	Aibō The Movie	Kohken Onoda
	Chameleon
	Jirocho Sangokushi
	Happy Flight	Shoji Takahashi
	GS Wonderland
2009	Osaka Hamlet
	Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky	Seinosuke Yanagihara
	Nonchan Noriben
	Tsuribaka Nisshi 20: Final
2010	13 Assassins
	Sword of Desperation	Tsuda
2011	Tada's Do-It-All House
	Someday	Osamu
2012	Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer
2013	Jokyo Monogatari
	A Boy Called H
	The Backwater	Detective
	Human Trust	Kazuyoshi Honjo
2014	Lady Maiko	Orikichi Kitano
2017	Tap The Last Show	Kiichirō Mōri
2018	Sakura Guardian in the North		[6]
	Recall	Takeshi Kanō
	Lying to Mom	Yukio Suzuki
2019	Leaving the Scene	Detective Yanagi	[7]
2020	I Never Shot Anyone	Kazuyuki Ishida
2021	First Gentleman	Kurō Hara	[8]
	99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie	Haruhiko Madarame	[9]
2023	Kubi	Sen no Rikyū	[10]
2024	Doctor-X: The Movie	Akira Kanbara	[11]

Television

• Ashura no Gotoku Part2 (1980)
• Kenpō wa Madaka (1996), Toshio Irie
• AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (2000–2011)
• Boushi (2008)
• The Waste Land (2009), Satoi^[12]
• Doctor X (2012–2021), Akira Kanbara^[11]
• The Great White Tower (2019)