Ryō Ikebe Movies

1960 Japanese movie

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

1956 Drama by Toshio Sugie

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

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

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

1955 Japanese movie

Baseball player Takatsuka is murdered mid-game in front of a large crowd. The autopsy reveals that he has been killed by a needle coated with a...

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

The 3rd film in the Three Dolls series

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

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,...