Kon Ichikawa Movies

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

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

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...

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

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

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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...

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...

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.

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

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

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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

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