Screenplay: Keiichiro Ryu

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


A Slope in the Sun

1958 · Movie · 214 min. · Japan

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Izumi Ashikawa · Yûji Odaka

Plot The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her...

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Izumi e no michi

1955 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

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Bright Sea

1963 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Mieko Takamine · Masayuki Mori

Plot On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would...

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Epic Chushingura (TV Series)

1971 · Series · 50 min. · Japan

Direction Michiyoshi Doi · Mitsuo Murayama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Chûsha Ichikawa · Kozuki Noboru · Miyoko Akaza

Plot The famous Japanese legend of the enforced suicide of Lord Asano and the epic attempt by his loyal forty-seven samurai to avenge their unjustly punished lord is the basis for...

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Yakuza zesshô

1970 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Naoko Otani · Masakazu Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot A yakuza member's half-sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow. The overly protective and loving brother; however,...

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Love Never Fails

1955 · Movie · 103 min. · Japan

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Akira Kubo · Hiroshi Tachikawa · Kyoko Aoyama · Fubuki Koshiji

Plot Two youths - the serious son of a Buddhist abbot and his rakish pal - quarrel over a restaurant keeper’s daughter. When one of the youths die the other boy...

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Tejo muyô

1969 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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Danger Pays

1962 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Jô Shishido · Hiroyuki Nagato · Ruriko Asaoka · Arihiro Fujimura

Plot Things that people will do for money! Money! Even fake money! In a race to win over a master counterfeiter capable of printing fake bills that are virtually impossible to...

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Here Because of You

1964 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Ryuichi Takamori

Cast Ushio Akashi · Shigeko Arai · Sonny Chiba · Kazuo Funaki

Plot An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students...

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Vixen

1969 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Eiko Azusa

Plot A young woman blackmails a corrupted college dean for two million yen after being raped by his son. Dealing through the son in law, then she tries to lure him...

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Devices Stronger Than Women

1963 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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Chôshichirô Edo Nikki (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 54 min. · Japan

Direction Yûichi Harada · Junji Kurata · Yoshiyuki Kuroda · Mak Chi-Woh

Cast Kotaro Satomi · Yumiko Nogawa · Tetsurô Tanba · Shôhei Hino

Plot TV series (1983-1991). 3 seasons. 233 episodes.

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Jigoku no kyôen

1961 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Mihashi · Reiko Dan · Junko Ikeuchi · Jun Tazaki

Plot The elegant MIHASHI Tatsuya and coquettish DAN Reiko's alluring performances are exquisitely superb in this story of a petty scoundrel and femme fatale. Accidentally acquired photographic negatives are at the...

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