Kon Ichikawa Movies

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

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

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering...

Romantic melodrama

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

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

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

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

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...

Melodrama 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...

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions