Kon Ichikawa Movies

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

A TV movie by Kon Ichikawa, remaking of Ten Dark Women (1961)

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Film mixing live action with the famous animated Italian rubber mouse, Topo Gigio.

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

An early, heavily Disney-inspired cartoon, written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. A bandit kidnaps a member of a concert audience as an act of...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.