Ryō Ikebe Movies

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

Period romantic drama.

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend Ryūtarō to reform it. Facing union...

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...

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

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

Thriller about three escaped convicts, one of whom (Sato), plans to murder the wife of a detective (Ikebe) whom he blames for the suicide of his...

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

A girl marries her elderly employer but in reality is in love with his son.

1955 Japanese movie

"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.

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