Shinichirô Ikebe Movies
- 1983
The Ballad of Narayama
The Ballad of Narayama7.51983HD
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...
- 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.
- 1980
Kagemusha
Kagemusha7.81980HD
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...
- 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...
- 1990
Dreams
Dreams7.71990HD
A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
- 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...
- 2005
Summer of Ubume
Summer of Ubume6.32005HD
Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1984
MacArthur's Children
MacArthur's Children5.41984HD
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the...
- 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...
- 2003
Spy Sorge
Spy Sorge7.52003HD
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II and in the midst of the...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2021
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger02021HD
Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself...
- 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.
- 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...
- 2007
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Glory to the Filmmaker!6.22007HD
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...
- 1982
Eternal Monument
Eternal Monument101982HD
A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.
- 2009
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity
The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity62009HD
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.