Ryō Ikebe Movies

1955 Japanese movie

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

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

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...

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

Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the...

Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a university professor, collapsed. Michihara, a...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

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

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

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,...

"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...

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...

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn!

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...

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