Kon Ichikawa Movies

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...

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

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

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa