Kon Ichikawa Movies

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

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...

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

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

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.

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

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...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Romantic melodrama

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.