Kon Ichikawa Movies

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

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

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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.

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion...

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

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

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