Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

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

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...

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

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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.

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.

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

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

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

Film by Kon Ichikawa

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

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...

Romantic melodrama