Ryō Ikebe Movies

Backstage friendships and rivalries flare as dancers Akiko and Haruko compete for roles, clash with disapproving parents, and juggle new romances. A...

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup...

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

1955 Japanese movie

Japanese crime film

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

Romantic melodrama about the loves and adventures of Kageyama (Takarada) and his fellow oarsmen at Meikyo University.

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn!

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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...

A young wife is frightened that her husband and her father's second wife may be in cahoots with each other and are after her fortune. And then,...

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.