Kon Ichikawa Movies

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

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...

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Fallen Blossoms tells the story of the sorrows...

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

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...

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

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

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain is told comically.