Acting
Chosuke Ikariya
Born — Died
1931-11-01 — 2004-03-20
Place of birth
Sumida City, Tokyo, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
7.6A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
8.1A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.
Bayside Shakedown
1997
7.7Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
Dreams
1990
7.4A young, maverick airline copilot navigates love, ambition and workplace drama while struggling to prove himself worthy of promotion to captain.
Good Luck!!
2003
7.7No synopsis available yet.
Psycho Doctor
2002
10.0Eguchi Yosuke plays the character of Onishi Katsuo, a 35-year-old carpenter and former college football player who sees life almost in the same balance as a football game (guts and glory along with team spirit). One day he learns that his friend (a college football teammate) was killed when his house burned down. His friend's wife is in a coma and his four kids are now homeless, Eguchi has the children live with him (in his one room apartment) above his bosses home.
As Tears Go By
2000
Film credits
2000s · 4 titles
6.1The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.
Bayside Shakedown 2
2003
9.02000 live-action Japanese film.
As the River Flows
2000
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Happy Family Plan
2000
Three friends have become masters of the "Go-Con": Japanese group dating. But after playing the game so long, they begin to wonder if their love lives are going nowhere.
Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture
2000
1990s · 9 titles
7.7Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.
Dreams
1990
6.5Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down.
Bayside Shakedown
1998
6.3The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code granting diminished responsibility to the mentally impaired.
Keiho
1999
NRIn a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992
8.7No synopsis available yet.
Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication
1998
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Bayside Shakedown SP: Year-End Special Alert
1997
7.8Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
My Sons
1991
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Bayside Shakedown Extra Edition Bayside Policewoman Story Early Summer Traffic Safety Special
1998
8.0Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.
The Seven Chefs
1997
1970s · 13 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's a Psychic, Everybody Gather!!
1974
NRMamoru Hirayama, the sales manager of Clover Shoji, a women's underwear manufacturer, was selected by President Usui to be the manager of the foreign affairs section newly established in the sales department. Masaaki Sakata, Yasushi Inoda, Osamu Yamabe, and Jiro Oi were assigned to this foreign affairs section. Hirayama, a former soldier, is suddenly enthusiastic when the company orders him to join the Self-Defense Forces. One day, in the library where the records of the former army are displayed, Hirayama recalls his memories of that time. It turned out that the bundle of bills that the captain had made a mess of was packed in a box and buried somewhere.
喜劇 右向けェ左！
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's a festival! It's a ghost festival! Everybody Gather!!
1972
8.0Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.
Justice! Allies! Everybody Gather!!
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Maiko Girls, Everybody Gather!!
1972
NRComedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
Fun on the Run
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's the Tsun-Tsun style, Everybody Gather!!
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Zundoko Zundoko, Everybody Gather!!
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
For Just A Little Bit, Everybody Gather!!
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's a Big Event, Everybody Gather!!
1973
NRNo synopsis available yet.
They're The Drifters' suckers!! Arrest them!!
1975
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's Springtime, It's Drifters Time, Everybody Gather!!
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Drifters, Where's Paradise?!
1974
1960s · 13 titles
NRThe fourth "Tenamonya" feature. Adapted from the popular television comedy, Fujita stars in this film based on historical events.
Last Days of the Tokugawa Regime: Tenamonya Confusion
1967
7.0Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.
Madcap Mixup
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Dreams Come True at Night
1967
10.0The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to find a stone statue that contains the location of the secret treasure "Olmeca".
Mexican Free-for-All
1968
10.0Two travelers (Makoto Fujita and Minoru Shiraki) have adventures along the road including strange supernatural happenings, ghosts, and monsters.
Ghost Story of Two Travelers at Tenamonya
1967
NROwner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.
Our Miyo-chan
1969
9.0A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...
Everybody, Let's Go!
1967
10.0No synopsis available yet.
It's The Drifters! Steal, steal, steal as much as you can!
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
It's The Drifters! Adventure, Adventure, More Adventure!
1968
8.0No synopsis available yet.
It's The Drifters! All Star Attack
1969
NRA group of low-level yakuza members have run out of options and decided to start a new company called “The Do-It-All Consultants,” but this leads to much trouble.
It's The Drifters! Forward, forward, and forward again!
1967
10.0No synopsis available yet.
It's the Drifters! Training, Training, and More Training!
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
We Can Do It If We Try, Everybody Gather!!
1968
Series credits
7.6A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather.
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
8.1A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.
Bayside Shakedown
1997
7.4A young, maverick airline copilot navigates love, ambition and workplace drama while struggling to prove himself worthy of promotion to captain.
Good Luck!!
2003
7.7No synopsis available yet.
Psycho Doctor
2002
10.0Eguchi Yosuke plays the character of Onishi Katsuo, a 35-year-old carpenter and former college football player who sees life almost in the same balance as a football game (guts and glory along with team spirit). One day he learns that his friend (a college football teammate) was killed when his house burned down. His friend's wife is in a coma and his four kids are now homeless, Eguchi has the children live with him (in his one room apartment) above his bosses home.
As Tears Go By
2000
NRKoshiba Seijuro is the assisstant to some influential figure whose daughter was all messed up, and who comes to the psychiatrist Koizumi Santa and asks him to counsel the daughter without her knowledge. Since Santa is a compulsive gambler he's hard up for money and takes the job even though he's queasy about the ethics. Turns out that she's the same girl he took to the hospital nine months earlier when she had passed out drunk on a roof preparing to jump. As it happens she woke up in the hospital and saw Santa's best friend Kusanagi Shunsuke (a surgeon) holding the Santa Claus hat Santa had been wearing (it was Christmas Eve), and it turns into a very complicated love triangle.
Santa Claus Dreaming
1997
NRNo synopsis available yet.
ドリフ大爆笑
1977
7.0Azusa the wife, Otaro the husband, and their only daughter Suzu. They live in a little public dwelling in Tokyo. They're a fairly ordinary family of three living a normal but happy life. That is, until they move into that house. Then all sorts of frightening experiences escalate and involve the entire family, developing into incidents that will give goosebumps. Would you be able to defend your precious family if a major disaster should suddenly occur? The topics in this series are family and life itself, the ultimate topics for everyone. This drama uses the form of a horror suspense show to depict the bonds within a family. --Fuji TV
There's Someone Watching
2003
Set amid the fascinating setting of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this drama follows the lives of a couple�a young woman passionately in love with a married man, and a young man battling with his feelings of inferiority in his relationship with an elite woman, despite his good heart and commitment to his work. The stories of their yearnings and passion are artfully drawn in sharp contrast to the romantic yarns of popular magazines.
True Love Is
1993
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Love and Life in the White
2001
NRA jidaieki drama where a hard-nosed doshin, Shinpachiro Kariya, takes on difficult cases with exquisite teamwork under the supervision of a young magistrate.
Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
1993
8.3Sentaro Sakuragi (Tsuyoshi Domoto) moves to Tokyo from Osaka. He works now as an substitute elementary school teacher, in place of another teacher on maternity leave. Sentaro hopes to turn his class into the best class in all of Japan. Meanwhile, Sentaro lives in a ramen shop owned by Choichiro Asakura (Chosuke Ikariya). Choichiro is a conservative person but kind. One day Choichiro's second daughter Motoko (Yuko Takeuchi) rides the subway and notices a rude female high school student. The girl sits near a pregnant and doesn't offer to give her seat to her. Motoko then asks the female student to her seat to the pregnant woman...
School Teachers
2001
No synopsis available yet.
恋人はスナイパー
2001
NRRieko Natsume, a new lawyer who is eager to save people by law, is recommended by her senior lawyer Noriko to work under Bunsuke Inokari. Inokari, nicknamed court vandalism, is far from the image of a brilliant lawyer, and Rieko is stunned by the painful appearance of the stubble. Rieko was also surprised by Bunsuke Inokari's unconventional behavior in the defense of Nagai, a suspect who was arrested three months before the statute of limitations.
Bengoshi Bunsuke Ikari
2001
A variety and comedy sketch program featuring The Drifters that was broadcast as a special program on Fuji Television and its affiliate stations during the Christmas season every December for seven years from 1982 to 1988.
Drifter's Christmas Presents
1982
5.0Asakura Tetsuya is a man who leads a double life. By day, he is a mild-mannered and affable salaryman in the Mogi Corporation. Come night, he takes on the persona of a hardened and violent individual bent on exposing the shady dealings of his company. Tetsuya's brother was a former president of one of the Mogi subsidiaries, but committed suicide under mysterious circumstances after some company trouble. Tetsuya is convinced that a company conspiracy staged the suicide, and he is obsessed with finding out the truth in order to avenge his brother.
Hunt of a New Wolf
1999
No synopsis available yet.
壁ぎわ税務官
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Gekai Reiko
2001
No synopsis available yet.
初笑い！ザ・ドリフターズ全員集合！！
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
取調室
1994