Shinichirô Ikebe Movies
- 1980
Kagemusha
Kagemusha7.8031980HD
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid...
- 1979
Vengeance Is Mine
Vengeance Is Mine7.51979HD
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
- 1990
Dreams
Dreams7.6961990HD
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
- 1991
Rhapsody in August
Rhapsody in August7.11991HD
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, whose husband was one of 80,000 human beings killed in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her...
- 1993
Madadayo
Madadayo7.31993HD
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
- 1983
The Ballad of Narayama
The Ballad of Narayama7.4821983HD
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should...
- 1997
The Eel
The Eel71997HD
A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...
- 2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge6.52001HD
A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.
- 2014
Climbing to Spring
Climbing to Spring7.22014HD
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their...
- 2007
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Glory to the Filmmaker!6.32007HD
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete...
- 1987
Zegen
Zegen6.41987HD
At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level...
- 1984
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection6.41984HD
In the aftermath of a war fought by magnetic weapons which caused massive earthquakes, a young and spunky boy naned Conan gets involved in a grand...
- 1981
Why Not?
Why Not?6.41981HD
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji...
- 1988
Labyrinth Romanesque
Labyrinth Romanesque5.31988HD
A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
- 2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'102002HD
Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Seven Samurai" (1954).
- 2000
Boy's Choir
Boy's Choir5.72000HD
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy,...
- 1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees7.11975HD
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
- 2003
Winter Days
Winter Days5.72003HD
Winter Days is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based on one of the renku (collaborative linked poems) in the 1684...
- 1998
Murder on D Street
Murder on D Street7.21998HD
Detective Kogoro Akechi is faced with a peculiar murder case involving forgeries of classic pornographic artworks.
- 1997
Moonlight Serenade
Moonlight Serenade5.41997HD
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother after World War II.