Ryō Ikebe Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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