Shinnosuke Ikehata’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, dark, intense, layered, styled

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Shinnosuke Ikehata has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Ran.

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Dir. Akira Kurosawa · With Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
Dir. Toshio Matsumoto · With Shinnosuke Ikehata, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Emiko Azuma

In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
Dir. Shusuke Kaneko · With Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama, Erika Toda