Kon Ichikawa

All Movies of Kon Ichikawa

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  Ten Nights of Dream
  Director of the film

   2006

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  Big Mama
  A strong-willed matriarch (Keiko Kishi) struggles to keep her brood of five -- including three grown sons and a pretty, marriageable daughter -- on the road to financial survival, if not success. She has also given them a strong m...
  Director of the film

   2001

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  Alley Cat (Playboy)
  Samurai Koheita Mochizuki, who goes by the nickname Dora-Heita, meaning "alley cat" or "playboy," pretends to be an alcoholic magistrate but is in actuality an envoy from the daimyo sent to clean up the corrupt...
  Director of the film

   2000

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  Village of the Eight Tombs
  A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later. Despite the Asian setting, it has a sort of strong sense of the gothic that brings to mind the works of Edgar Allan Poe and...
  Director of the film

   1996

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  6.0
  Kon Ichikawa's 47 Ronin
  Director of the film

   1994

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  6.4
  Fusa
  Set in the 16th century, an ambitious young samurai is adopted into a noble household, thereby attaining the necessary status to marry the daughter of the castle warden. Plans for the marriage are jeopardized, however, when a beau...
  Director of the film

   1993

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  Tsuru
  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...
  Director of the film

   1988

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  5.0
  Princess from the Moon
  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, in which the girl was a fairy from the mo...
  Director of the film

   1987

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  Actress
  Director of the film

   1987

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  Lonely Heart
  The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One of them was engaged to one of the victims and ...
  Director of the film

   1981

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  The Phoenix
  Director of the film

   1978

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  8.0
  The Inugami Family
  A strange will left by a wealthy man reveals a peculiarly twisted set of relationships and triggers four deaths and several other murder attempts.
  Director of the film

   1976

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  6.0
  Visions of Eight
  This documentary of the 1972 Summer Olympics, held in Munich, is remarkable for bringing eight of the world's most notable film directors to work on it. They are: Milos Forman, Yuri Ozerov, Mai Zetterling, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfl...
  Director of the film

   1973

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  To Love Again
  Director of the film

   1971

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  Tokyo Olympiad
  Ichikawa's cameras follow the 1964 Summer Olympics from opening to closing ceremonies. Sometimes he focuses on spectators, as athletes pass in a blur; sometimes he isolates a competitor; other times, it's a closeup of muscles as a...
  Director of the film

   1965

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  Alone Across the Pacific
  A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific – by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor’s Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) – tells the extraordinary real-life story of one man’s obses...
  Director of the film

   1963

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  An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo's Revenge)
  In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed first to ruin and then to kill three men who had t...
  Director of the film

   1963

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  Ten Dark Women
  Kaze is a married TV producer and a shameless philanderer, having nine mistresses all at the same time. All his women have had enough of his indecisiveness and inability to commit, and meet together with a conspiracy to kill him.
  Director of the film

   1961

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  A Woman's Testament
  A Film in Three Parts. The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an un...
  Director of the film

   1960

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  Her Brother
  "Her Brother" is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Kon Ichikawa. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival, where it won a prize for Special Distinction. In 2010 the director Yoji Yamada released his own ver...
  Director of the film

   1960

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  Odd Obsession
  A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.
  Director of the film

   1959

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  8.1
  The Burmese Harp
  July, 1945: Japan's army is on the run. A platoon in Burma sings to keep its spirit up. Inspiration comes from their self-taught lute player, Mizushima. At war's end, while they await repatriation at Mudon prison camp, Mizushima i...
  Director of the film

   1956