Movies: Kon Ichikawa

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi....

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa...

Documentary on the city of Kyoto, Japan. Topics include the Ryoanji Temple stone garden, a geisha residence, the Katsura Imperial Villa, and the Gion Festival....

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Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory....

A Japanese girl and a French boy make strides in overcoming the cultural barriers that prevent them from fully expressing the love they have for one another....

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist....

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi....

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Romantic melodrama...

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

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

Film mixing live action with the famous animated Italian rubber mouse, Topo Gigio....

Interview with Japanese film director, conducted by film critic Yuki Mori for the Directors Guild of Japan in 1999....

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels....

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa....

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 revenge, and the concert's conductor, the Momotaro-esque Dangonosuke, goes to her rescue....