Kon Ichikawa Filmes

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts 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...

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

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

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between...

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

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

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

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

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...

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

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

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.

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