Kon Ichikawa Movies

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include...

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...

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

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

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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

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.

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

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