Kon Ichikawa Movies

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

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

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

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...

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

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...

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

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

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

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

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A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.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 story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain is told comically.