Kon Ichikawa Movies

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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...

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...

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A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

Film by Kon Ichikawa