Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Kon Ichikawa's war film depicts the 60-hour period from the departure of the battleship Yamato, the pride of the Japanese Navy, until its sinking by...

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...

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

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

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

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one...

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.

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...

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

Minako, a ballerina who has been dating since her school days, and Koheta, a banker. It was Koheta who was finally about to get married as a result...

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

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

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

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

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...

War film by Kon Ichikawa