Kon Ichikawa Movies

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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.

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

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...

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

An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...

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

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and...

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

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.

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...

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

Romantic melodrama

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions