Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

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

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

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

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

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one...

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

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

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

Abbreviated version of Tokyo Olympiad, intended for overseas audiences and with added English narration.

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain, is told comically.

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...

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 sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...