Kon Ichikawa Movies

When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and...

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

Interview with Japanese film director, conducted by film critic Yuki Mori for the Directors Guild of Japan in 1999.

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

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

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...

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...

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a...

To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family's country estate, family secrets and lies dating...

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

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

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

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...

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

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

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

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...