Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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...

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

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...

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

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

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

Tokyo Olympiad director Kon Ichikawa documents the 50th anniversary of the Koshien games.

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

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

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