Ryō Ikebe Movies

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

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...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

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

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

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

1960 Japanese movie

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...

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...

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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