Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion...

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)

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

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

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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

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...

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...

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.