Kon Ichikawa Movies

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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

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

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

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

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

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.

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

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