Movies: Ryō Ikebe

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan....

Period romantic drama....

...

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the fami...

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission....

1958 Theater of Life adaptation....

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War....

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 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone....

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi...

Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival fami...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…...

...

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown....

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an armistice. When they get there, peace has been declared, but the sub's crew don't know as their radio...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later....

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....

...

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business....

Japanese crime film...

...