Ryō Ikebe Movies

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 192...

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many Japa...

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudde...

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assi...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes o...

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe...

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...

A Japanese artist (Ikebe),who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls f...

Ken's older sister Yoko, who has raised Ken like a mother, decides to move to Brazil with an older man.

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keepin...