Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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...

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...

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"...

Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic...

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...

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...

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

TV remake of Ozu's 'Late Spring'

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

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

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

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...

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain is told comically.