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
Direction Masanori Kakei
Cast Ineko Arima · Yu Fujiki · Momoko Kôchi · Seiji Miyaguchi
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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
Direction Tokuzo Tanaka
Cast Shintarô Katsu · Makoto Fujita · Shiho Fujimura · Tomomi Satô
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The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
1961 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
Direction Seijun Suzuki
Cast Kôji Wada · Mayumi Shimizu · Shin Morikawa · Arihiro Fujimura
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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
Direction Yasuki Chiba
Cast Akira Takarada · Yôko Tsukasa · Yumi Shirakawa · Frankie Sakai
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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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