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...

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

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

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

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

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

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

A TV movie by Kon Ichikawa, remaking of Ten Dark Women (1961)

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

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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.