Kazuo Ikehiro

Ikehiro Kazuo

  • Name: Ikehiro Kazuo
  • Native name: 池広一夫
  • Also Known as: いけひろ かずお
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: October 25, 1929
  • Age: 95
One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake (KutsukakeTokijirō, 1961), initiated a fruitful collaboration with actor Raizō Ichikawa. Ichikawa also starred in SevenMilestoNakayama (Nakayamashichiri, 1962), the story of a wandering gambler who rescues a woman resembling his murdered wife; this was thought to bring a freshness of touch to the matatabi (wandering yakuza) genre, as Ikehiro sought to stress the melancholy and solitude of the hero. The revenge drama LoneWolf (Hitoriōkami, 1968), another matatabi-eiga, also has a high reputation among devotees of the genre.
Ikehiro’s own reputation may have suffered because many of his films were contributions to long-running series, in which installments were shared between various studio artisans. Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (Zatōichi senryō kubi, 1964), the first of his three entries in the sequence of films starring Shintarō Katsu as the blind swordsman, was less interesting than the episodes by Kenji Misumi and Issei Mori. However, Kyoshiro Nemuri: Sword of Seduction (Ne­muri Kyōshirō: Joyōken, 1964), the fourth in an eccentric series, generally known in English as Sleepy Eyes of Death, with Raizō Ichikawa as the warrior son of a corrupted foreign missionary and a Japanese Christian, was a remarkable film which drew out the tortured psychology of the anti-hero through its bold use of color, expressionist camera angles, and overt symbolism. The stylized plot allowed Ikehiro’s imagination free rein, and he later contributed two further installments, apparently even more outlandish.
In terms of sheer visual invention, Ikehiro may have been the most brilliant of Daiei’s sixties contract directors, but this brilliance tended to be relatively shallow: thus, his version of the much-retold legend of folk hero Yasubei, Broken Swords (Hiken yaburi, 1969) was more stylish, but less psychologically perceptive and less harrowing, than Issei Mori’s 1959 version Samurai Vendetta (Hakuōki). In his last years at Daiei, Ikehiro helmed the three Trail of Blood (Mushukunin Mikogamino Jōkichi) films, another sequence of movies about a lone avenger. By now his style had become a little coarse, and the physical violence was unnecessarily emphatic. After Daiei’s collapse, he went into television where, with the exception of one Shochiku-produced theatrical feature, Make-Up (Keshō, 1984), he was to spend the rest of his career.

(Source: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors) Edit Biography
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Year Title Type Rating
2022 Shuchakueki Series 38: Ju-gatsu no Tulip
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2021 Seiichi Morimura Misuterisupesharu Shuchakueki Shirizu 37 Teinen no nai Satsui
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2020 Shuchakueki Series 36: Yuki no Hotaru
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2019 Shuchakueki Series 35: Kishimo no Matsuei
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2019 Shuchakueki Series 34: Koya no Shomei
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2019 Koya no Shomei
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2018 Shuchakueki Series 33: Glass no Misshitsu
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2018 Shuchakueki Series 32: Satsui wo Hakobu Kaban
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2017 Shuchakueki Series 31: Satsujin no Hana Kyaku
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2017 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 16: Last Family
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2016 Shuchakueki Series 30: Satsujin no Saiken
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2016 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 15: Seizon-sha
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2015 Shuchakueki Series 29: Zen'i no Kasa
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2014 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 14: Mochu Ketsurei
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2014 Shuchakueki Series 28: Zankokuna Shikai
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2013 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 13: Kazoku no Shokutaku
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2013 Shuchakueki Series 27: Aku no Tamashii
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2012 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 12
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2012 Shuchakueki Series 26: Satsui no Honryu
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2011 Shuchakueki Series 25: Tochu Gesha Suru Onna
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2011 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 11: Last Scene
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2010 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 10: Kanzen Hanzai no Shisha
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2010 Shuchakueki Series 24: Shuchakueki
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2009 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 9: Tomoshibi
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2009 Shuchakueki Series 23: Shisa-ji
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2009 Shuchakueki Series 22: Satsujin Doumei
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2008 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 8: Chishi Kairyu
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2007 Shuchakueki Series 21: Aku no Joken
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2006 Shuchakueki Series 20: Sabaku no Kissaten
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2006 Shin Sencho no Kokai Jiken Nisshi
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8.0
2003 Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 40: Seikan Tokkyu Satsujin Route
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2003 Shuchakueki Series 15: Sabaku no Eki
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2003 Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 38: Orient Kyuko Satsujin Jiken
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2002 Nichibu Meimon: Iemoto Sozoku Satsujin Jiken!
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2001 Muta Keiji-kan vs. Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji: Enemy
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2001 Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 36: Notohanto Satsujin Jiken
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2001 Shuchakueki Series 14: Sabaku no Ansho
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2001 Shuchakueki Series 13: Satsujin no Funin
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2000 Nishimura Kyotaro Travel Mystery 34: Tsugaru Rikuchu Satsujin Route
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2000 Shuchakueki Series 12: Yako Ressha
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1999 Shuchakueki Series 11: Satsujin no Saiken
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1999 Shuchakueki Series 10: Satsujin no Hana Kyaku
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1998 Shuchakueki Series 9: Eki
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1998 Shuchakueki Series 8: Mado
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1997 Kaseifu wa Mita!
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1997 Kaseifu wa Mita! 16
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1997 Shuchakueki Series 7: Machi
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1997 Gokenin Zankuro Season 2
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1996 Shuchakueki Series 6: Ningen no Jujika
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1996 Ko Kyoto Mystery 18: Kaga Hyaku Mangoku Satsujin Jiken
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1996 Ko Kyoto Mystery 17: Hizen Hotaru no Sato Satsujin Jiken
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1996 Shuchakueki Series 5: Hokori Aru Higaisha
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1994 Shuchakueki Series 4: Ao no Jujika
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1993 Ko Kyoto Mystery 10: Aki Oku no Hosomichi Satsujin Jiken
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1992 Furin Kazan
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1992 Shuchakueki Series 3: Shikei-dai no Butoh
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1992 Shuchakueki Series 2: Shuchakueki
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1990 Shuchakueki Series 1
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1990 Ko Kyoto Mystery 2
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1987 Kamen Hotei
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1986 Matsumoto Seicho no Kuroi Jukai
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1983 Matsumoto Seicho no Satsujin Ko Oku no Hosomichi
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1982 Goyosen Enjo
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1981 Hono no Inu
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1977 Shingo Torimonocho
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1977 Ningyo Sashichi Torimonocho
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1974 Yaburegasa Toshu Akunin Gari
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1974 Umon Torimonocho
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1973 Kozure Okami
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6.9
1973 Yataro Kasa
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1972 The Trail of Blood
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7.0
1972 Tetsudo 100-nen Oinaru Tabiji
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1970 Kenka ya Ichidaido Dekai Yatsu
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1969 Prison Breaking
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1968 The Daring Nun
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6.0
1968 Priest and the Gold Mint
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1968 Lone Wolf Isazo
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1966 Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
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7.8
1966 Gan
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4.0
1966 Young Boss Quarrel
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1965 Young Boss
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6.0
1964 Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
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7.5
1962 Jigoku no Shikaku
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1962 Nakayama Nanari
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1960 Bara Daimyo
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Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
2007 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 7: Michi
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2006 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 6: Satsujin no Shishu
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2006 Shuchakueki Series 19: Shisha no Haitatsunin
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2005 Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji vs Jiken Kisha Saeko 5: Taxi
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2005 Shuchakueki Series 18: Hakon no Joken
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2004 Muta Keiji-kan vs. Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji Soshite Jikan Kisha Saeko 4: Marriage
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2004 Shuchakueki Series 17: Muteki no Yoin
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2003 Muta Keiji-kan vs. Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji Soshite Jiken Kisha Saeko 3: Red Light
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2003 Shuchakueki Series 16: Kabe no Me
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2002 Muta Keiji-kan vs. Shuchakueki no Ushio Keiji 2: Ankyo no Rensa
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1978 Yokomizo Seishi Series II: Yatsuhakamura
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Ikehiro Kazuo

Kazuo Ikehiro
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  • First Name: Kazuo
  • Family Name: Ikehiro
  • Native name: 池広一夫
  • Also Known as: いけひろ かずお
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: October 25, 1929
  • Age: 95

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