Sho Ikushima

Acting

Sho Ikushima

Born

1985-07-28 (41)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Known for

No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35 poster
6.7

The drama will center around how a 35 year old changes the school and influences her fellow classmates’ lives while dealing with the dark reality of today’s high schools, including bullying and skipping school.

No Dropping Out: Back to School at 35

2013

You're My Pet poster
6.9

Sumire Iwaya works as an editor for a well known newspaper. She is attractive and graduated from a prestigious university. She goes through a difficult period after being dumped by her boyfriend and getting demoted at work. One day, she picks up a beautiful young man, Takeshi Goda, out of a box. Takeshi looks like her former pet Momo and Sumire offers to let Takeshi live in her home as her pet.

You're My Pet

2017

GARO: Heir To Steel Armor poster
9.2

Ryūga Dōgai, the Golden Knight Garo, is approached by a Makai Priestess, Koyori, who warms him that the "Gate of Destruction", the oldest gate through which Horrors first appeared in the Human Realm, is on the verge of opening once more. Guided by Koyori, Ryūga travels to Creacity, a city hiding the ancient gate.

GARO: Heir To Steel Armor

2024

Cops 'n Robbers poster
9.3

An ambitious novice detective needs the expertise of a legendary thief. Watch this unlikely ‘cops & robbers’ double act solve crime together!

Cops 'n Robbers

2018

Sekigahara poster
6.9

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

Sekigahara

2017

Darc poster
6.2

To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

Darc

2018

Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 6 titles

Sekigahara poster
6.9

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyasu's Army of the East defeated the Army of the West of Ishida Mitsunari. The story includes the intrigues and shifting loyalties of the various retainers, family members, and samurai.

Sekigahara

2017

Darc poster
6.2

To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

Darc

2018

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo 4 poster
NR

Akira Kuroda (Keisuke Kida) becomes a hitman for the Sannotokai Ogata-gumi and attempts to assassinate Kumao Masatsugu (Hideo Sato), the young boss of the Kugizaki-gumi—but fails and is seriously wounded. Now both Fujita (Tsukito) of the Washizu-gumi and Kumao are out to kill him. Meanwhile, Ogata-gumi executive Kiyota (Ryusuke Nakamura) is ordered by lieutenant Yanagi (Miyabi Koteyama) to eliminate Kuroda himself. As Kiyota makes the agonizing decision to carry out the order, Kenji (Sho Ikushima) appears and points a gun at him. What is Kenji’s true intention? And what fate awaits Kuroda? The conflict rapidly escalates, triggering a full-blown internal war.

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo 4

2019

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo poster
NR

Akira Kiyota (Ryusuke Nakamura), an ordinary salesman with poor performance and heavy consumer-loan debt, feels crushed by the harshness of reality—far from his wild days as a former biker gang leader. One night, while entertaining clients at a club, Kiyota loses his temper and punches a customer. The club happens to be protected by his high school classmate Kenji Hosokawa (Sho Ikushima). Kenji knocks out the rampaging Kiyota with an ashtray. When Kiyota wakes up, he finds himself in Kenji’s office. Kenji invites him into his yakuza group, telling him this might be his one chance to turn his life around…

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo

2019

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo 2 poster
NR

Kiyota Akira (Ryusuke Nakamura) and his former classmate Kenji Hosokawa (Sho Ikushima) begin making money using boat-race betting tricks. Kiyota eventually becomes favored by Yamazaki (Taketarino Yamaguchi) and surpasses Kenji’s results, causing resentment to build within Kenji. Ignoring Kiyota’s warnings, Kenji breaks the strict rules of their boat-race scheme in an attempt to earn big on his own—marking the beginning of his downfall. As his funds dry up, Kenji plans to rob the office of Fujiyoshi (Shinra Manzo), the group’s treasurer. He thinks he can get away with it—but…

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo 2

2019

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo 3 poster
NR

Akira Kiyota’s subordinate, Akira Kuroda (Keisuke Kida), works as a hangure (semi-gangster). Watching Kiyota and Kenji succeed as full-fledged yakuza, Kuroda grows increasingly frustrated. After getting into a fight with members of the Kugizaki-gumi, Kuroda is arrested. Kiyota settles the matter, but Kuroda is harshly scolded. Determined to prove himself, Kuroda begs Kiyota to let him officially join the organization. Fellow hangure Shirai (Takuya Shinagawa) also applies, and both are accepted as live-in apprentices of the Washizu-gumi. However, what awaits them is a world far more brutal than they ever imagined…

Road to the Boss: Gaki Gokudo 3

2019

Series credits

Behind the camera