Toshio Shiba

Acting

Toshio Shiba

Born 1947-04-27

Acting credits

Modori River poster
5.7

The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions.

Modori River

1983

Godzilla vs. Hedorah poster
6.8

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid and corrosive sludge, neither humanity nor Godzilla may be able to defeat this toxic menace.

Godzilla vs. Hedorah

1971

Sure Death! 3 poster
7.0

Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.

Sure Death! 3

1986

Lost Paradise poster
6.0

Kuki is a veteran newspaper reporter who has been shuffled off to a book-development branch and finds escape in an illicit relationship with Rinko. Together they find the passion no longer present in their marriages.

Lost Paradise

1997

The Unbroken poster
6.7

Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.

The Unbroken

2009

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project poster
7.3

Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation time left.

Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project

2001

Zatoichi: The Last poster
5.4

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.

Zatoichi: The Last

2010

The Last Ronin poster
6.6

16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) traverses the country on a mission. His purpose is to find the families of the fallen samurais and spread the truth of the ronin uprising.

The Last Ronin

2010

Embalming poster
4.7

Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a recent suicide. While performing her duties, she pricks herself on a needle buried deep within the boy’s flesh. When the head is stolen during the night, Miyako begins a desperate search to recover it and finish her work, encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, and dark secrets from her own past along the way.

Embalming

1999

The Temple of the Golden Pavillion poster
6.8

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest. When his father dies, he’s sent to the Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto. Mizoguchi is physically unattractive and becomes, in some way, jealous of the beautiful Temple that he loves so much.

The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

1976

Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai poster
NR

The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.

Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai

2012

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars poster
8.0

A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.

Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars

1990

Oishinbo poster
6.5

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".

Oishinbo

1996

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma

1986

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion poster
NR

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion

1976

Baian Mayoibashi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Baian Mayoibashi

1982

Pro Golfer Oribe 2: Par is Fine poster
NR

The second film in the series Professional golfer Oribe Kinjiro.

Pro Golfer Oribe 2: Par is Fine

1994

Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 poster
6.0

A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE

Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

1980

Youth Peony Lantern poster
NR

Based on "Kaidan Botan Dango" by Sanyutei Encho, a rakugo storyteller who was active from the late Edo period to the Meiji era, Kara Juro was in charge of the script. A feature-length historical drama depicting a fierce and painful love story between ghosts and humans. Impressive artistic and fantastic painting with depth as if you were watching the stage. In all, this work is a beautiful, love horror fantasy.

Youth Peony Lantern

1993

巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

巨悪は眠らせない 特捜検事の標的

2017

Kagerō 4 poster
NR

In the Tosa in the early Showa era, the fourth series of Tempo active series that depicts the activity of the woman trainer involved in the conflict of two pairs of confrontation yakuza.

Kagerō 4

1998

A Blood Stained Love Affair poster
6.0

Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by Ohashi, a political mastermind, but at the same time, she gives money to Riki, a young aspiring photographer, and has a relationship with him. Riki gets to know Emika and falls in love with her at first sight. When Riki asks Ineko for money to buy a car, Ineko sells Emika's virginity to Ohashi.

A Blood Stained Love Affair

1974

Shadow Hunters poster
NR

In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan, who secretly planned the abolition of the clans and the seizure of their territories. The Inami clan has mastered the essence of making weapons, thus breaking the law. To protect the clan, its elders hire three "Shadow Hunters"... TV movie based on the popular manga by Takao Saito.

Shadow Hunters

1992

You Gotta Chance poster
NR

The story of Tamikawa, a professionally and artistically burned out singer, who embarks on a search for a director named Goda. During the journey, the man not only experiences a lot of adventures, but also tries to find himself and answer the question whether he still sees his career in show business.

You Gotta Chance

1985