Ryō Ikebe Movies

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

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.

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...

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,...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

1960 Japanese movie

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

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

An Ishiro Honda film.

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

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

"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...

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...

Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman. She refuses,...

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