YūjirŠIshihara (石原 裕次郎, Ishihara YūjirŠ, December 28,
1934 â€" July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.
His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the
Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the
1956 film Season of the Sun, based on a novel written by his brother.
He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the
films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was
extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver
cancer.YÅ«jirÅ grew up in Kobe, in Otaru, HokkaidÅ , and in Zushi,
Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from
Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima.
YÅ«jirÅ attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho
Elementary School. During his elementary school years he participated
in competitive swimming and skied on Mt. Tengu. He then attended Zushi
City Zushi junior High School, where he began playing basketball. He
aimed to enter Keio Senior High School, but did not pass the entrance
examination. He enrolled at Keio Shiki Boys' Senior High School, but
in 1951 was admitted to Keio Senior High School. Afterward he entered
the political science department of the school of law at Keio
University, associated with the high school, but reportedly spent all
his time playing around.Wanting to become an actor, he auditioned at
Toho, Daiei Film and Nikkatsu, but did not pass any of his auditions.
However, in 1956, with help from producer Takiko Mizunoe and his
brother Shintaro, he received a bit-part in the film adaptation of
Shintaro's Akutagawa Prize-winning Season of the Sun, making his film
debut. Afterwards he withdrew from Keio University to work for
Nikkatsu, playing the lead in the film adaptation of Shintaro's novel
Crazed Fruit.At the 1958 Blue Ribbon Awards Ishihara won the prize for
best new actor for the 1957 films Washi to taka and Man Who Causes a
Storm. He would go on to become one of the representative stars of the
Showa Era with his twin acting and singing career, but his life was
one made harder by illness and injury.
1934 â€" July 17, 1987) was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.
His elder brother is Shintaro Ishihara, an author, politician, and the
Governor of Tokyo between 1999 and 2012. Yujiro's film debut was the
1956 film Season of the Sun, based on a novel written by his brother.
He was beloved by many fans as a representative youth star in the
films of postwar Japan and subsequently as a macho movie hero. He was
extravagantly mourned following his early death from liver
cancer.YÅ«jirÅ grew up in Kobe, in Otaru, HokkaidÅ , and in Zushi,
Kanagawa. His father, an employee of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, was from
Ehime Prefecture, and his mother was from Miyajima, Hiroshima.
YÅ«jirÅ attended Otaru Fuji Kindergarten and then Otaru City Inaho
Elementary School. During his elementary school years he participated
in competitive swimming and skied on Mt. Tengu. He then attended Zushi
City Zushi junior High School, where he began playing basketball. He
aimed to enter Keio Senior High School, but did not pass the entrance
examination. He enrolled at Keio Shiki Boys' Senior High School, but
in 1951 was admitted to Keio Senior High School. Afterward he entered
the political science department of the school of law at Keio
University, associated with the high school, but reportedly spent all
his time playing around.Wanting to become an actor, he auditioned at
Toho, Daiei Film and Nikkatsu, but did not pass any of his auditions.
However, in 1956, with help from producer Takiko Mizunoe and his
brother Shintaro, he received a bit-part in the film adaptation of
Shintaro's Akutagawa Prize-winning Season of the Sun, making his film
debut. Afterwards he withdrew from Keio University to work for
Nikkatsu, playing the lead in the film adaptation of Shintaro's novel
Crazed Fruit.At the 1958 Blue Ribbon Awards Ishihara won the prize for
best new actor for the 1957 films Washi to taka and Man Who Causes a
Storm. He would go on to become one of the representative stars of the
Showa Era with his twin acting and singing career, but his life was
one made harder by illness and injury.
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