Kon Ichikawa Movies

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

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include...

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

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

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

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

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...

Machida (Shintaro Katsu) is in constant trouble because of his instincts to do right every time, even when it endangers his life. A gang hires him...

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

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

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...

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

A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.