Kon Ichikawa Movies

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

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...

Romantic melodrama

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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...

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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

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