Direction: Kon Ichikawa

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Kiichi Nakai · Ryuuji Harada · Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Plot The Shinsengumi was a self-appointed law-enforcing militia loyal to the Tokugawa shogunate that emerged in Kyoto during the Bakumatsu era of the 1860s. At its peak numbering around 300 members,...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiro Suzuki · Eiji Funakoshi · Fujiko Yamamoto · Kumeko Urabe

Plot The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy, coming up to his second birthday, interspersed with occasional...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Noda · Takuzo Kawatani · Kirin Kiki

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

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Chiemi Eri · Eiji Funakoshi · Jun Hamamura

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Michael Redgrave

Plot Master film director, Kon Ichikawa (1915~2008), along with many of Japan's most important artists presents the treasures of one of the world's most beautiful cities, Kyoto, Japan Filmed at the...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Plot Kon Ichikawa’s directorial debut. A puppet version of a well-known kabuki play, which was confiscated and banned by US occupational forces for being excessively traditional.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Renaud Verley · Ruriko Asaoka · Tetsuo Ishidate · Yôko Kosono

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Rie Nakahara · Etsuko Ichihara

Plot The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ruriko Asaoka · Koji Ishizaka · Bunta Sugawara · Kiichi Nakai

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Keiko Kishi · Jun Izumi

Plot Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

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

Direction Kon Ichikawa · Shirô Toyoda

Cast Yoshiko Mita · Mayumi Ozora · Wakako Sakai · Akiko Nishina

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

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yuji Hori · Chiaki Tsukioka · Shizuko Kasagi · Yumeji Tsukioka

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yoshiko Sakuma · Junko Sakurada · Takako Irie

Plot One of Kon Ichikaw's adaptations of the Kindaichi Kousuke detective stories written by Yokomizo Seishi. This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Jun Tazaki · Michitaro Mizushima · Yôko Sugi

Plot This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe as a young policeman it is part...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Shirô Itô

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

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Isao Kimura · Yoshiko Kuga · Isuzu Yamada · Yûnosuke Itô

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Nanako Matsushima · Kikunosuke Onoe · Keiko Matsuzaka

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Akiko Nishina · Koji Kita

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Mie Kitahara · Sô Yamamura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Yukiko Todoroki

Plot Shinichi, who runs a pachinko salon, has been engaged since childhood with Chiharu, a ballet student. Both maintain, nevertheless, a relationship more of friendship than of courtship. On the other...