Movies: Shinichirô Ikebe
- 1980
Kagemusha (1980)
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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 attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor tak...
- 1990
Dreams (1990)
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A collection of magical tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa....
- 1983
The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
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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 refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mounta...
- 1979
Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
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A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....
- 2001
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001)
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A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers....
- 1991
Rhapsody in August (1991)
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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 four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii wh...
- 1993
Madadayo (1993)
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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 of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age....
- 1997
The Eel (1997)
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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 one except for an eel he befriended while in prison....
- 1975
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
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A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest....
- 1984
Future Boy Conan: The Big Giant Robot's Resurrection (1984)
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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 adventure. Conan lives in a world that is mostly oceans; the major land masses having been destroyed by...
- 2007
Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007)
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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 his latest project....
- 2021
Nobutora - Samurai Tiger (2021)
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Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there’s an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai T...
- 2003
Spy Sorge (2003)
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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 Japanese imperial ambitions in Eastern Asia. The spy becomes acquainted with a sympathetic communist who ...
- 1987
Zegen (1987)
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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 military adventurer, Iheiji sets up chains of brothels throughout Asia. As Japan's power in the region gr...
- 1981
Why Not? (1981)
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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 Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminate...
- 2003
Winter Days (2003)
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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 collection of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō. The creation of the film followed the t...
- 2002
Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' (2002)
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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 (2000)
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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, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir....
- 1990
Takeshi: Childhood Days (1990)
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A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too...
- 2005
Summer of Ubume (2005)
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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 been pregnant for twenty months. Sekiguchi investigates further with the help of his friend Enokizu, a ...