Ryō Ikebe Movies

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...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Wakayama

In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Koreya Senda

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Noboru Matsuhashi

When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Two residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a religious pilgrimage, but actually to get away from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

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...

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takako Irie

Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kensaku Morita

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Cast: Mako Midori

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Goro Noguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Tachi

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Japanese mystery thriller.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hisako Yamane

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Japanese noir.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenzo Asada

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of drug dealers tries to force the pair to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Period romantic drama.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Murata

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

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Cast: Ken Takakura

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.

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in...

Genre: War

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

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

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Cast: Chishū Ryū

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

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fubuki Koshiji

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Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup...

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Cast: Ken Ogata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Legendary detective returns

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

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Cast: Masanori Sera

Ikeuchi was captain of the K - University ice hockey team. The daughter Shikotsuko of Ginza 's western restaurant "Piccolo" was also a female student...

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Cast: Mieko Takamine

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer...

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

"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...

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Hiroko Ogi

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A troubled architect weaves his way through numerous romantic situations in a search for true love and contentment.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi