Yusuke IseyaFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Multihyphenate Yusuke Iseya enjoyed a prolific modeling career in his native Japan before transitioning to narrative feature work, initially as a supporting actor in indigenous arthouse films that occasionally traveled abroad, including (most memorably) director Hirokazu Kore-eda's universally...Read More

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Blindness

Actors: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Yusuke Iseya, Yoshino Kimura

Synopsis: Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author José Saramago's novel Blindness begins when an epidemic of blindness strikes the world. Mark Ruffalo stars as an eye doctor who awakens one morning to find that he suffers from the unexplained disorder. He, along with other victims, is Read More

10/3/08
Sukiyaki Western Django

Actors: Hideaki Ito, Koichi Sato, Yusuke Iseya, Masanobu Ando, Takaaki Ishibashi

Synopsis: Maverick Japanese director Takashi Miike re-teams with longtime writing partner Masa Nakamura (Andromedia, The Bird People of China) for this Western inspired by Sergio Corbucci's violent 1966 classic Django. It's been hundreds of years since the Battle of Dannoura, yet the Genji and Heiki clans Read More

8/29/08
Tekkonkinkreet

Actors: Min Tanaka, Yoshinori Okada, Nao Omori, Masahiro Motoki, Yusuke Iseya, Kankuro Kudo, Yu Aoi, Kazunari Ninomiya

Synopsis: A pair of feisty young street urchins attempts to protect an unnamed metropolis from a diabolical villain whose plans to raze the urban landscape on the behalf of malevolent real-estate developers threatens to destroy the very soul of the city. Street-smart youngsters Black and White do their best Read More

7/13/07
Kurosudo Nooto

Actors: Erika Sawajiri, Yusuke Iseya, Yuko Takeuchi, Tetsuji Tanaka

Synopsis: An intimate journal serves as the nexus between two otherwise disconnected lives in Isao Yukisada's romantic drama Kurosudo Nooto. As the story opens, co-ed Kae (Erika Sawajiri) - who is undergoing training to become a teacher - moves into a new flat and happens upon a strange diary, stored in a Read More

2007
The Suicide Song

Actors: Hiroshi Abe, Sayaka Akimoto, Yusuke Iseya

Synopsis: Director Masato Harada takes the helm for this eerie horror film concerning a song that inspires listeners to take their own lives. The year was 1933, and Hungarian composer Rezs Seress was stuck in a slump. In order to cope with his depression, Seress composed a melancholy little ditty entitled Read More

2007
Arch Angels

Actors: Juri Ueno, Yusuke Iseya, Megumi Seki

Synopsis: An intense barrage of anime, computer generated graphics, and a record setting number of pop culture references per minute, the Japanese feature Arch Angels follows the adventures of three girls at the prim and proper St. Michael's Academy. The hum-drum life of Catholic school doesn't suit these Read More

2006
Sea Without Exit

Actors: Juri Ueno, Shinosuke Ichikawa, Shun Shioya, Teruyuki Kagawa, Tomokazu Miura

Synopsis: Director/screenwriter Yoji Yamada (The Twilight Samurai) teams with emerging filmmaking talent Kyoshi Sasabe (Half a Confession) for this screen adaptation of author Hideo Yokoyama's somber novel. Koji Namiki is a young pitcher who has shown great promise on the diamond by winning the National Read More

2006
Honey and Clover

Actors: Yu Aoi, Sho Sakurai, Yusuke Iseya, Ryo Kase, Megumi Seki

Synopsis: Adapted from the popular manga of the same name, director Masahiro Takada's coming of age drama follows five Hama Art College students as they prepare to venture out into the real world on a great voyage of self-discovery. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Memories of Matsuko

Actors: Eita, Miki Nakatani, Yusuke Iseya, Mikako Ichikawa, Akira Emoto

Synopsis: An aimless twenty-year old drowning himself in booze after a recent break-up begins to come around while piecing together the life of the aunt he never knew he had in director Tetsuya Nakashima's adaptation of Muneki Yamada's original novel. Unable to deal with his latest break-up, Sho Kawajiri Read More

2006
What the Snow Brings

Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Koichi Sato, Kyoko Koizumi, Kazue Fukiishi

2005
Casshern

Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Toshiaki Karasawa, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi

Synopsis: A genetic discovery that could prove mankind's saving grace is instead used to create the very beings who threaten their existence in director Kazuaki Kirya's visionary sci-fi epic. The time is the late 21st Century; fifty years of war between Europa and the Eastern Federation have left the planet Read More

1/1/04
Distance

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Arata, Yusuke Iseya, Yui Natsukawa, Susumu Terajima

Synopsis: Four people whose lives are connected by a common tragedy discuss the paths their lives have taken in this drama from Japan. Minoru (Susumu Terajima) is a businessman, Atsushi (Araka) is a disaffected post-modern teen, Kiyoka (Yui Natsukawa) is an educator, and Masaru (Yusuke Iseya) a quiet young Read More

2001
Gaichu

Actors: Aoi Miyazaki, Seiichi Tanabe, Ryo, Yuu Aoi, Yusuke Iseya

Synopsis: Following up on his acclaimed debut Moonlight Whispers (about a sadomasochistic relationship between two teens), Akihiko Shiota once again looks at troubled youth. Sachiko (played by Aoi Miyazaki of Eureka fame) is a 13-year-old junior high school student with a complicated family life. Her father Read More

2001
Kinpatsu no Sogen

Actors: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yusuke Iseya, Takeshi Kato, Miako Tadano

Synopsis: Isshin Inudo spins this romantic fantasy about an ailing octogenarian and young, socially inept caregiver. Living in a spooky old house, Ayumi Nippori has lived with a crippling heart disease that should have killed him years ago. One day, he wakes up thinking that he is in his twenties, though Read More

2000
After Life

Actors: Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naito, Kei Tani

Synopsis: Like his previous drama Maborosi (1995), Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life is a brilliant meditation on death and memory. The premise of After Life is simple: over the span of a week, twenty-two souls arrive at a way station (which looks like an old junior high school) between life and death, where Read More

5/12/99