Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...

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

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

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

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

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

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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