Kon Ichikawa Movies

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are...

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

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

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

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...

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include...

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

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...

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...

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

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

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

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

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

War film by Kon Ichikawa

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...