Kon Ichikawa Movies

War 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...

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

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...

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

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.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

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

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...

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

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

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...

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

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

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