Acting

Yosuke Irie

Born 1934-10-01 · Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan

Acting credits

Floating Weeds poster
7.5

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Floating Weeds

1959

Street of Shame poster
7.7

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Street of Shame

1956

Troupers of Asakusa poster
NR

On the night of the Sanja Festival, a bloodstained wallet left in the hands of a female pickpocket… The boss’s sinister grasp closing in on an innocent dancer, and the passion and deadly battle unleashed by the righteous hero of Asakusa…

Troupers of Asakusa

1955

The Crowded Train poster
6.8

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

The Crowded Train

1957

Song of the Devil poster
5.0

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.

Song of the Devil

1975

The Snowy Heron poster
5.0

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

The Snowy Heron

1958

On This Earth poster
7.0

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.

On This Earth

1957

Punishment Room poster
6.9

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Punishment Room

1956

Kisses poster
6.8

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.

Kisses

1957

The Song Lantern poster
9.0

The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the actors of the Japanese classical theater No, friendship, hatred and love…

The Song Lantern

1960

Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten poster
NR

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

Zoku zoku Jûdai no seiten

1953

The Betrothed poster
8.0

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

The Betrothed

1957

The Story of Shunkin poster
6.3

Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a servant.

The Story of Shunkin

1954

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love poster
10.0

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love

1955

Image of a Mother poster
8.5

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and new beginnings.

Image of a Mother

1959

Asashio yushio poster
NR

A sweet and melancholy melodrama set against the backdrop of the beautiful Seto Inland Sea, in which a pair of twin sisters, one a young lady of high birth, the other a maid, are manipulated by the threads of fate as they vie for the affection of the same young man.

Asashio yushio

1956

Mother poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mother

1958

Tokyo Eyes poster
NR

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the daughter of a company president, creating a miniature picture of the youth of Tokyo that revolves around these four characters.

Tokyo Eyes

1958

Sweet Secret poster
NR

A dynamic woman who aspires to be a writer, living a wild life in constant search of freedom while indulging in lust with four men.

Sweet Secret

1971

Banner of the Young poster
NR

The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons that life taught his older brothers. Therefore, he does not think to study, but strives for material well-being alone. To make a career, he ruthlessly pushes his colleagues with his elbows. For him, the high ideals of trade union activists Jiro and Saburo are an example of old-fashioned thinking, naive behavior.

Banner of the Young

1970

Zoku jūdai no seiten poster
NR

Akiko Yasutomi, an 18-year-old high school student, lives in poverty with her mother Hisako, but she has feelings for her cousin, a medical student named Masato Miki, who lives upstairs. However, when Masato becomes a part-time tutor for Akiko's classmate, Natsuko Shigeno, and Akiko becomes close to Natsuko, Akiko feels lonely. These feelings also help her to lose her purity to Junichi Yoda, whom she met by chance through an accidental mistake.

Zoku jūdai no seiten

1953

Wakai yatsura no kaidan poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Wakai yatsura no kaidan

1961

Itohan Monogatari poster
7.0

Based on the original work by Shuji Hojo, Itohan Monogatari depicts the fate of a clumsy and kind-hearted woman in the Taisho era.

Itohan Monogatari

1957

Mashiroki Fuji no mine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mashiroki Fuji no mine

1954