Ryō Ikebe Movies

Japanese mystery thriller.

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

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

An Ishiro Honda film.

1962 Japanese movie

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

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

"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...

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...

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.

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Japanese crime film

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

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

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

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.