Kon Ichikawa Movies

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...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Kon Ichikawa's war film depicts the 60-hour period from the departure of the battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese Navy, until its sinking by...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Film by Kon Ichikawa

War film by Kon Ichikawa