Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

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

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

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

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Abbreviated version of Tokyo Olympiad, intended for overseas audiences and with added English narration.

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

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

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

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

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...

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...