Kon Ichikawa Filmes

This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...

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...

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...

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

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

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents' own...

Romantic melodrama

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

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...

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

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...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

War film by Kon Ichikawa

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

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...

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

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

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of...

Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki's same-titled short story collection, Ten Nights of Dreams brings ten fantastical dream sequences to...

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