Kon Ichikawa Movies

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...

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

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

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express...

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.

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

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

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

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...

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.

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

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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...

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

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

Film by Kon Ichikawa