Kazuo Ikehiro
Born: 1929-10-25 in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Directing
Biography
Kazuo Ikehiro got his start as an assistant working for directors like Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa. He always had a strong preference for working in jidai-geki and says that he only did a number of modern-day yakuza films because of studio demands. Ikehiro developed a gritty, unconventional style that made him an excellent match for Zatoichi and the antihero screen personae of Raizo Ichikawa. Possibly his greatest achievement came with Raizo, when he played an instrumental part in the Nemuri Kyoshiro series. The first three movies had been fairly straightforward chambara adventures, but with 1964's Sword of Seduction, Ikehiro steered the series into the surreal and stylistically outrageous extremes that made the Son of the Black Mass so legendary.
Filmography
2022
- Tulips in October ... (Director)
2021
2019
- Koya no Shomei ... (Director)
2017
- Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Last Family ... (Director)
2016
- Murder Credit - Final Destination Series ... (Director)
- Detective Ushio vs. Case Writer Saeko: Survivors ... (Director)
2015
- Terminal Station Series - Umbrella of Goodwill ... (Director)
2008
2001
- Destination Station Series - Homicide Assignment ... (Director)
1997
- Tattooed Kin-san vs Miss Ninja Thief ... (Director)
1991
- Castle of Sand ... (Director)
1990
- The Great White Tower ... (Director)
- The Mysterious Lightning Beauty ... (Director)
- 終着駅シリーズ ... (Creator)
1986
- The Beauty with the Enchanting Melody ... (Director)
1984
- Make-Up ... (Director)
1983
- Satsujin Kou Oku no Hosomichi ... (Director)
1982
- Goyou Sen Enjou ... (Director)
1981
- Lowly Ronin ... (Director)
1980
- Goro Dog ... (Director)
1978
- Monkey ... (Director)
1973
- Slaughter in the Snow ... (Director)
1972
- Kogarashi Monjiro ... (Director)
- The Fearless Avenger ... (Director)
- The Trail of Blood ... (Director)
1971
- Kataashi no ēsu ... (Director)
1970
- Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life ... (Director)
- Naked Ambition ... (Director)
- Live My Share, Mother ... (Director)
1969
- Broken Swords ... (Director)
- Prison Break ... (Director)
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie ... (Director)
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay ... (Director)
1968
- Lone Wolf Isazo ... (Director)
- Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint ... (Director)
- The Daring Nun ... (Director)
1967
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps ... (Director)
- Young Boss: Leader's Flesh ... (Director)
- Escape Man ... (Director)
1966
- Zatoichi's Pilgrimage ... (Director)
- Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies ... (Director)
- Young Boss: Invitation to Fight ... (Director)
- The Thieves' Who's Who ... (Director)
- Wild Geese ... (Director)
1965
- Young Boss: Prison Release ... (Director)
- Young Boss ... (Director)
1964
- Zatoichi's Flashing Sword ... (Director)
- Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction ... (Director)
- Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold ... (Director)
- Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo ... (Director)
1963
- Rabble Tactics ... (Director)
- Cut the Shadow ... (Director)
1962
- Hell's Assassin ... (Director)
- Seven Miles to Nakayama ... (Director)
1961
- The Gambler's Code ... (Director)
- The Phantom Samurai ... (Director)
- Flowers of Chivalry ... (Director)
- Tenka ayatsuri-gumi ... (Director)
1960
- Bonchi ... (Assistant Director)
- Bara daimyo ... (Director)
1958
- Bakeneko Goyōda ... (Assistant Director)
1956
- Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider ... (Assistant Director)