Kon Ichikawa Movies

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

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...

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

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

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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.

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...

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa.

Comedy drama by Kon Ichikawa

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

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

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

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...

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

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions