Kon Ichikawa Movies

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

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

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.

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...

Abbreviated version of Tokyo Olympiad, intended for overseas audiences and with added English narration.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

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...

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

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...

Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage....

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

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...

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...

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