Ichiro Ikeda

Ryu Keiichiro

  • Name: Ryu Keiichiro
  • Native name: 隆慶一郎
  • Also Known as: Ryu Keiichirou, Ikeda Ichiro, Ikeda Ichirou, りゅう けいいちろう, 池田一朗
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: September 30, 1923
  • Died: November 4, 1989
Ryu Keiichiro was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist born in Akasaka-ku, Tokyo. His real name is Ikeda Ichiro. He graduated from the Department of French Studies, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo.

During the war, he departed as a student soldier and fought in mainland China as an army officer. After the end of the war, he returned to school and graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1948. After graduation, he joined Sogensha. He also worked as a university lecturer for a short time. Around 1950, he taught French as a lecturer at Rikkyo University and an assistant professor at Chuo University until 1959.

In 1957, he started working as a screenwriter. Initially, he wrote scripts mainly for Nikkatsu movies such as "Hino Ataru Sakamichi."

During his time as a screenwriter, he worked on a wide range of works, both movies and TV dramas, and was one of the leading screenwriters in the history of postwar Japanese TV dramas until the 1970s. His representative works as a screenwriter are the movie "Ni An-chan" and the TV drama "Onihei Hankacho."

He died on November 4, 1989, at Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. His cause of death was cirrhosis. In the same year, he won the 2nd Shibata Renzaburo Award for "Ichimuan Furuyuki." Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
1987 Sarakin Gyosha no Tsuma
Special
8.0
1985 Tokumei Keiji the Cop
Drama
4.0
1984 Bettaku wo Motsu Inu
Special
0.0
1981 Nihon Hankacho
Special
0.0
1979 The Super Girl
Drama
0.0
1978 Yabure Shinkurou
Drama
9.0
1977 Shingo Torimonocho
Drama
2.0
1977 Yabure Bugyo
Drama
0.0
1976 That Guy And I
Movie
5.0
1976 Fufu Tabi Nikki: Saraba Ronin
Drama
0.0
1976 Kozure Okami 3
Drama
8.0
1975 Nagasaki Hankacho
Drama
0.0
1974 Zatoichi Monogatari
Drama
7.4
1974 Kozure Okami 2
Drama
7.5
1974 Umon Torimonocho
Drama
0.0
1973 Mito Komon Season 4
Drama
6.0
1972 Futari no Suronin
Drama
0.0
1972 Ooka Echizen Season 3
Drama
0.0
1971 Dai Chushingura
Drama
9.0
1970 Oedo Sosamo
Drama
4.0
1970 Yakuza Zesshou
Movie
7.0
1969 Vixen
Movie
6.0
1969 Onihei Hankacho
Drama
0.0
1969 Umon Torimonocho
Drama
0.0
1969 No Handcuffs Needed
Movie
4.0
1968 The House of Wooden Blocks
Movie
0.0
1968 Mighty Jack
Drama
7.5
1967 An Idiot in Love
Movie
6.1
1966 Crazy Daisakusen
Movie
0.0
1965 Taking the Castle
Movie
1.0
1964 Satsujin Sha o Kese
Movie
0.0
1964 Plants from the Dunes
Movie
3.0
1964 High School Juniors 2
Movie
0.0
1964 Musekinin Yukyoden
Movie
0.0
1964 Kimitachi ga Ite Boku ga Ita
Movie
0.0
1964 Doro Inu
Movie
0.0
1963 Bright Sea
Movie
6.0
1963 High School Third Graders
Movie
0.0
1963 Youth of the Beast
Movie
7.3
1963 Crazy Sakusen: Sentehisshou
Movie
0.0
1963 It Disappeared in the Rain
Movie
0.0
1963 Castle of Owls
Movie
6.9
1962 Danger Pays
Movie
5.0
1962 Wakakute, Warukute, Sugoi Koitsura
Movie
0.0
1962 Cool Young People
Movie
0.0
1962 Distant Country Song
Movie
0.0
1962 Red Buds and White Flowers
Movie
0.0
1962 Kuroi Dice
Movie
0.0
1961 A Life That is a Hall
Movie
0.0
1961 That Guy And I
Movie
8.0
1961 The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass
Movie
0.0
1961 Urban Sky Cordon
Movie
0.0
1961 Boss Fights to the Death at Dawn
Movie
0.0
1961 The Night Before Execution
Movie
0.0
1961 He, Killed Dad
Movie
0.0
1960 Urban Sky Bouncer
Movie
0.0
1960 The Blue Beast
Movie
6.0
1960 Wait for Tomorrow
Movie
4.0
1960 The Sand City in Manchuria
Movie
0.0
1960 The Sleeping Beast Within
Movie
6.6
1960 Ajisai No Uta
Movie
8.0
1959 My Second Brother
Movie
7.2
1959 Wakai Keisha
Movie
0.0
1959 The Echo of Love
Movie
7.0
1959 The Stream of Youth
Movie
0.0
1958 Shoot the Sun Down
Movie
4.0
1958 Red Pier
Movie
7.4
1958 Yaro to Ogon
Movie
0.0
1958 Chanchiki Okesa
Movie
0.0
1958 A Slope in the Sun
Movie
7.0
1957 Junanasai no Teiko
Movie
0.0
1956 Shiawase wa Doko ni
Movie
0.0
1956 Zoku Tada Hitori no Hito
Movie
0.0
1956 Aijo
Movie
0.0
1956 Young Tree
Movie
0.0
1955 Love Never Fails
Movie
0.0
1955 Izumi e no Michi
Movie
0.0
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
1914 Kachuusha
Japanese Movie, 1914,
(Support Role)
Support Role
0.0
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  • First Name: Ichiro
  • Family Name: Ikeda
  • Native name: 隆慶一郎
  • Also Known as: Ryu Keiichirou, Ikeda Ichiro, Ikeda Ichirou, りゅう けいいちろう, 池田一朗
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: September 30, 1923
  • Died: November 4, 1989

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