Kon Ichikawa Movies

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

Film by Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa's war film depicts the 60-hour period from the departure of the battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese Navy, until its sinking by...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one...

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Abbreviated version of Tokyo Olympiad, intended for overseas audiences and with added English narration.

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.