Screenplay: Kaneo Ikegami

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kaneo Ikegami. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Thirteen Assassins (13 assassins)

2010 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takayuki Yamada · Yusuke Iseya · Goro Inagaki

Plot A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

6.8

9K votes

6.8

9K votes

The Last Chusingura

2010 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan

Direction Shigemichi Sugita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Koichi Sato · Masatô Ibu · Yoshi Oida

Plot An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.

6.5

23 votes

6.5

23 votes

The Thirteen Assassins

1963 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kô Nishimura · Ryohei Uchida · Isao Natsuyagi

Plot Receiving a confidential order from the Tokugawa Shogunate, 13 Samurai Warriors start plotting the assassination of Matsudaira Nariaki, chief of the Akashi clan who is extraordinarily cruel and lewd. The...

6.5

110 votes

6.5

110 votes

The Great Duel

1964 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

Tsuki no kôdôkan

1956 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

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Arashi kitari saru

1967 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Tamaki Sawa · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot A ninkyô yakuza story with what, probably for most squeamish westerners anyway, is a disturbing opening titles sequence. One of the many variations on a yakuza clan's sakazuki (sake cup...

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Bored Hatamoto: A Sword Against Intrigue

1959 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kinya Kitaoji · Akiko Santo · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot A troupe of Chinese acrobats go to Japan to help celebrate the building of a shrine. At the same time a series of mysterious assassinations take place. Master swordsman Saotome...

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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

1968 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Esumi

Plot Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds...

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Outlaw: Black Dagger

1968 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Akiyoshi Fukae · Eiji Gô

Plot A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro (Tetsuya Watari) is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo,...

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Velvet Hustler

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Ruriko Asaoka · Kayo Matsuo · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always...

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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny

1972 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ryohei Uchida · Mikio Narita · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot The second live-action film about the adventures of three ronin: Jubei, Sunlight, and Moonlight, who dedicate their lives to hunt down "shadows", the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

1968 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Asao Koike · Jiro Okazaki

Plot On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of...

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Sword and Flower

1972 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Emi Shindô · Masayuki Mori · Jiro Tamiya

Plot Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

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Seventeen Ninja

1963 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

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Shadow Hunters

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Ryohei Uchida · Mikio Narita

Plot During the corrupt rule of the Tokugawa government, three cold-blooded killers live only to deliver death to their elusive prey - ninjas! These are the Shadow Hunters. A simple task...

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The Man Who Raised A Storm

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Izumi Ashikawa · Meiko Kaji · Kazuko Tachibana

Plot A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

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Outlaw: Gangster VIP

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Mitsuo Hamada · Tamio Kawaji

Plot Goro (Tetsuya Watari) had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the...

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