Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

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...

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Romantic melodrama

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

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...

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Film by Kon Ichikawa

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

Tokyo Olympiad director Kon Ichikawa documents the 50th anniversary of the Koshien games.

Interview with Japanese film director, conducted by film critic Yuki Mori for the Directors Guild of Japan in 1999.