Movies: Ryō Ikebe

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

An Ishiro Honda film....

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother....

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy in 1942....

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers....

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days i...

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

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

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A dramatization of veteran actor Ryo Ikebe's essay of the same name about his parents' eccentric marriage....

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

Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman at the mercy of war. Wataru is entrusted by his best friend who has gone off to war with his sister Reiko to marry her, but he is not ready to abandon ...

Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over....

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

It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally...

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Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda...

1962 Japanese movie...

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 as a young policeman it is part crime drama, part social study. Definitely not an undiscovered mast...

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision will lead to a long, dark night of the soul, while his lady love, a bar hostess, tries to cope with her ...