Highest rated movie: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964)
Lowest rated movie: Slaughter in the Snow (1973)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Kazuo Ikehiro? Cinafilm has a total of 37 reviews across 4 movies directed by Kazuo Ikehiro.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 70%.
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold is Kazuo Ikehiro's highest rated movie, with a score of 74% based on 19 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Kazuo Ikehiro is Slaughter in the Snow, with a score of 64% based on 1 reviews.
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.
Kazuo Ikehiro has directed films starring Shintarō Katsu, Michiyo Yasuda, Ryūtarō Gomi and Saburo Date.
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