Kon Ichikawa Movies

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

Interview with Japanese film director, conducted by film critic Yuki Mori for the Directors Guild of Japan in 1999.

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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

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.

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

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

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

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