Ryō Ikebe Movies

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.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

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

Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to...

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

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

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

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

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

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...

As an orphan, Yamauchi Fumiko was taken in by the politician Kawabe Sotaro and raised by him. Perhaps because of their similar circumstances, she...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.