Kensaku Ikeda

Movies

Shibuya Story
Director of Photography
Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.
Asabuki Riyako, Female Lawyer: The Young Eyewitness
Director of Photography
Attorney Asabuki Riyako goes to wine store in Ginza and meets a friend from college, Matsuura Ayano. Matsuura is the CEO of a wine company. The next morning, Asabuki learns from the news that Matsuura's father has died in one of the rooms at the inn.
Hold Me and Kiss Me
Director of Photography
Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and resist the infection, she finds new friendship and companionship with a journalist named Miyuki and a man named Akira.
Maji!
Director of Photography
Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.
Balloon
Director of Photography
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
Director of Photography
After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older sisters Yuka and Yuma. This organization is led by politician Kuraudo Sekin, who fights juvenile crime in heavy-handed manners, to the extent to equip his student agents with triple-bladed yo-yo weapons. However, when Sekin's methods become too zealous, Yui quits the bureau and refuses to undertake undercover missions for them. It is soon discovered that Sekin's actual goal is to overthrow the Japanese government, and the Kazama sisters, along with a gang of young outcasts, have to stop him.