Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

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...

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

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...

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.

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion...

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

When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons,...

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...

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

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain, is told comically.

An early, heavily Disney-inspired cartoon, written and directed by Kon Ichikawa. A bandit kidnaps a member of a concert audience as an act of...