Ryō Ikebe Movies

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

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...

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

Part one of The Masterless 47.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...

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...

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

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

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