Ryō Ikebe Movies

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.

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.

In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss....

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

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...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

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

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...

"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...

1960 Japanese movie

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 film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

1955 Japanese movie