Movies: Kon Ichikawa

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War film by Kon Ichikawa...

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

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

Romantic melodrama...

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents....

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 another....

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions...

This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind....

Chieko (Momoe Yamaguchi) has been raised as the only child of parents who run a dry goods store. When Chieko was a middle-school student, she learned that her parents are not her biological parents. Cheiko's mother told her that she was stolen while ...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl....

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 of women in a geisha house in Kyoto by recounting the relationships of its inhabitants....

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game....

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory....

The life of iconic Japanese director Kon Ichikawa....

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case....

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Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the sam...

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Okatsu is a widow raising five children - adults but still mama-dependent - in mid-eighteenth century Edo, Japan. Her frugality attracts unflattering comment even amid national tough times (the region is in famine) What Okatsu tells no one is that sh...