Kon Ichikawa Movies

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain, is told comically.

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...

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

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

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.

Tokyo Olympiad director Kon Ichikawa documents the 50th anniversary of the Koshien games.

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.

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.