Best movies of Kon Ichikawa

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Yoshiko Sakuma, Jûzô Itami, Yûko Kotegawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of ...

Actors : Fujiko Yamamoto, Kazuo Hasegawa, Ayako Wakao, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Yukinojo, a Kabuki actor, seeks revenge by destroying the three men who caused the deaths of his parents. Also involved are the daughter of one of Yukinojo's targets, two master thieves, and a swordsman who himself is out to kill Yukinojo.

Actors : Kôichi Iwaki, Kiichi Nakai, Ken Takakura, Rie Miyazawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord.

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi, Mieko Takamine, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man ...

Actors : Yûko Asano, Kôji Yakusho, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Ryûdô Uzaki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

New magistrate cleans up a corrupt town in his own comic Samurai way.

Actors : Atsushi Watanabe, Takuzô Kawatani, Kiichi Nakai, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Actors : Fujiko Yamamoto, Kumeko Urabe, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

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 thoughts...

Actors : Yûjirô Ishihara, Masayuki Mori, Ruriko Asaoka, Kinuyo Tanaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

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 planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.

Actors : Yasuko Sawaguchi, Toshirô Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the original tale, though, ...

Actors : Kikunosuke Onoe, Nanako Matsushima, Junko Fuji, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa's remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.

Actors : Masayuki Mori, Keiko Kishi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the relationship between a sister and brother.

Actors : Akiko Nishina, Keiko Kishi, Kôji Kita, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. ...

Actors : Harold Conway, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tonpei Hidari, Masumi Harukawa,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

The cat of the title roams around the house of a poor schoolteacher in the late 19th century, observing the goings-on of the teacher and his neighbors.

Actors : Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari, Kaoru Yumi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and ...

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Fujiko Yamamoto, Kyôko Kishida, Mariko Miyagi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A man has a wife and nine girlfriends, all ten of whom are fed up with his shameless polygamy and plot to kill him. However, this is easier said than done.

Actors : Isao Bitô, Tadao Futami, Reiko Inoue, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three friends in feudal Japan who are ronin: masterless warriors, who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill ...

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hideki Noda, Takuzô Kawatani, Kirin Kiki,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

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...

Actors : Reiko Ôhara, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yôko Tsukasa, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Jun Izumi, Keiko Kishi, Momoe Yamaguchi,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Raizô Ichikawa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Machiko Kyô,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business,...