Kon Ichikawa Movies

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"...

War film by Kon Ichikawa

A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.

An early film by Kon Ichikawa

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...

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

A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist...

Depicts various relationships between four beautiful sisters, their husbands, and their second daughter's husband's mistress.

Romantic melodrama

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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

The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.

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...

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