Screenplay: Natto Wada

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Shoji Yasui · Jun Hamamura · Taketoshi Naitô

Plot July, 1945: Japan's army is on the run. A platoon in Burma sings to keep its spirit up. Inspiration comes from their self-taught lute player, Mizushima. At war's end, while...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Eiji Funakoshi · Osamu Takizawa · Mickey Curtis · Mantarô Ushio

Plot It is the Philipines, 1945. The Japanese Imperial Army has been reduced to a ragtag mob hiding in the jungles. Among them is Pvt. Tamura. The situation goes from bad...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Kiichi Nakai · Takuzo Kawatani · Atsushi Watanabe

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 Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Atsuko Kindaichi · Chieko Higashiyama

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hiroyuki Nagato · Eiji Funakoshi · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Keizo Kawasaki · Ayako Wakao · Yosuke Irie

Plot Katsumi is a university student who has no respect for his hardworking parents, his professors, or even his friends. One night after a celebration, he drugs and rapes Akiko, a...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Masayuki Mori · Kinuyo Tanaka · Ruriko Asaoka

Plot A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary...

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 Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed...

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 Yuji Hori · Chiaki Tsukioka · Shizuko Kasagi · Yumeji Tsukioka

Direction Kon Ichikawa

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

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...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Chishu Ryu · Haruko Sugimura · Michiko Ono

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Asami Kuji · Yukiko Shimazaki · Haruko Sugimura

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Keiko Kishi · Tamao Nakamura · Kyôko Kishida

Plot Kaze is a married TV producer and a shameless philanderer, having nine mistresses all at the same time. All his women have had enough of his indecisiveness and inability to...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Ken Uehara · Shirley Yamaguchi · Chiaki Tsukioka · Yoko Kozakura

Plot This early Kon Ichikawa film marks the first time that he and noted scenarist Natto Wada worked together. The film is about a love triangle among a girl, her poor...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Chikage Awashima · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Ryuuji Shinagawa