Ryō Ikebe Movies

1955 Japanese movie

Katsuko, daughter of a prestigious inn owner, is urged into an arranged marriage with Keisuke, the nephew of a powerful businessman. She refuses,...

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...

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

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Period romantic drama.

"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...

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

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,...

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn!

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...

1962 Japanese movie

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.