| Yoshinobu Ikeda | |
| Native Name: | 池田義信 |
| Native Name Lang: | ja |
| Birth Date: | 10 March 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Nagano, Nagano, Japan |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Occupation: | Film director |
was a Japanese film director and film industry executive.
Born in Nagano Prefecture, Ikeda first worked at the post office before heading to Tokyo in 1920 to join the theater world.[1] He entered the Shochiku studio in 1921 and debuted as a film director the same year with Nasanu naka. He became one of the top directors of Shochiku's Kamata studio in Tokyo, scoring a major hit with Sendō kouta in 1923.[2] He eventually quit directing films in 1936 and became a film producer. After World War II, he became the secretary general of first the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan and then Eirin.[3]
His wife was Sumiko Kurishima, one of Japan's first female film stars and the star of Sendō kouta.