Kon Ichikawa Movies

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

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

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

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

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

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...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

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

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

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

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

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"...

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

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...