Ryō Ikebe Movies

Japanese crime film

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...

Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya...

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

Legendary detective returns

An Ishiro Honda film.

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

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

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

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

1960 Japanese movie

1955 Japanese movie

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

Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a briefcase full of cash. His impulsive decision...

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1962 Japanese movie