Yoshio Shirasaka

Writing

Yoshio Shirasaka

Born 1932-09-01 · Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Rape! 13th Hour poster
5.6

A serial rapist takes on a young protégé while being pursued by a homosexual gang.

Rape! 13th Hour

1977

The Japanese Belly Button poster
4.8

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

The Japanese Belly Button

1977

The Most Valuable Wife poster
8.0

Kyoko is the third daughter of the Nonomiya family, a very ordinary family. Momoko, the eldest daughter, is married to Ichiro, the president of Mihara Shoji, and Riko, the second daughter, is married to Jiro, the managing director, and they plot to marry Kyoko to Saburo, the third son of the Mihara family. Kyoko is angry at the marriage talk that is being pushed forward without her permission, and declares that she "definitely won't get married," but before she knows it, she begins to become aware of the other person...

The Most Valuable Wife

1959

Superexpress poster
8.0

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express

Superexpress

1964

Blind Beast poster
6.5

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

Blind Beast

1969

Closing Time poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Closing Time

1962

The False Student poster
6.7

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

The False Student

1960

The Beast Shall Die poster
7.0

Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.

The Beast Shall Die

1974

The Cast-Off poster
8.0

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)

The Cast-Off

1959

The Betrothed poster
8.0

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

The Betrothed

1957

A Lustful Man poster
5.6

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.

A Lustful Man

1961

Monrō no yōna onna poster
NR

1964 Japanese movie

Monrō no yōna onna

1964

Dog of Fortune poster
5.7

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.

Dog of Fortune

1979

Morning Whistling poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Morning Whistling

1957

Giants and Toys poster
7.1

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Giants and Toys

1958

The Red Petal Is Wet poster
7.0

A melodrama about the relationship between a stripper and a drug addict.

The Red Petal Is Wet

1977

Three Dolls in Ginza poster
NR

In this sequel to Three Dolls in College, the three friends continue their adventures and get into a rockabilly club in Ginza.

Three Dolls in Ginza

1959

Attack at Daylight poster
5.0

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Attack at Daylight

1970

Till We Meet Again poster
NR

College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in love with. The only problem is that the club doesn't have enough money to buy instruments for them to play. One day, the two come across a talent show called the "Mari Sono Look-Alike Contest" that promises the winner a cash prize. And Michiko looks a lot like the star.

Till We Meet Again

1966

The Blue Sky Maiden poster
7.0

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

The Blue Sky Maiden

1957

Forbidden poster
NR

Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a doctor with a bright career ahead of her.

Forbidden

1962

Glory on the Summit poster
9.0

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

Glory on the Summit

1962

Territory of the Night poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Territory of the Night

1967

Double Suicide of Sonezaki poster
6.3

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

1978