Screenplay: Kon Ichikawa

Direction Rintaro

Plot The adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Abebe Bikila

Plot Ichikawa's cameras follow the 1964 Summer Olympics from opening to closing ceremonies. Sometimes he focuses on spectators, as athletes pass in a blur; sometimes he isolates a competitor; other times,...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Machiko Kyô · Ganjiro Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Junko Kano

Plot A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Sakuma · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yûko Kotegawa

Plot This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ganjiro Nakamura · Yoichi Funaki

Plot Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple -...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yôko Shimada · Teruhiko Aoi · Mieko Takamine

Plot A strange will left by a wealthy man reveals a peculiarly twisted set of relationships and triggers four deaths and several other murder attempts.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yûko Asano · Kiichi Nakai · Hisashi Igawa · Koji Ishizaka

Plot Set in the 16th century, an ambitious young samurai is adopted into a noble household, thereby attaining the necessary status to marry the daughter of the castle warden. Plans for...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Ayako Wakao · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Koji Ishizaka

Plot Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koichi Fuse · Goro Fuyuki · Keiju Kobayashi

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 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 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

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 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