Ryō Ikebe Movies

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

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.

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

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

1957 Japanese movie.

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.

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

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes...

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.

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...

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on her own.