Ryō Ikebe Movies

The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro...

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

When he was a little boy, Tokitō Kensaku was sent to live with his paternal grandfather and his mistress Oei. Years later, Kensaku realizes he...

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

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.

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

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

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

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

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

When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. But a...

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

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

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

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

Japanese crime film