Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...

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

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

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

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

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage....

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

Romantic melodrama

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

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

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

An early, heavily Disney-inspired cartoon, written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. A bandit kidnaps a member of a concert audience as an act of...

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.