Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.