Kon Ichikawa — Director (31)
The Woman Who Touched the Legs (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
足にさわった女
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Fubuki Koshiji / Ryō Ikebe
other title: 足にさわった女
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where she is going to hold a memorial service for her father. Of course, the detective falls in love with his prey.
Kah-chan (2001) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
かあちゃん
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Keiko Kishi / Ryuji Harada
other title: かあちゃん
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 she saves so that a friend can start his own business once he's released from prison.
Ghost Story of Youth (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
青春怪談
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Mie Kitahara
other title: 青春怪談
A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a ballerina, and Shinichi, a thorough rationalist and childhood friend. A woman named Tomi Funakoshi appears in front of the two, who are thinking of getting married someday.
This Way, That Way (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
あの手この手
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Yoshiko Kuga / Masayuki Mori
other title: あの手この手
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.
The Money Dance (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ど根性物語 銭の踊り
other title: ど根性物語 銭の踊り
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 for his "forceful personality," and assigns him to kill evil people, a president of a loan company and a drug baron.
Goodbye, Hello (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ayako Wakao / Shin Saburi
other title: あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は
Kazuko and Umeko have been friends since college. They are modern businesswomen who have many obligations in life and are not ready for marriage. Their families think differently and strive to arrange their personal happiness.
365 Nights (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
三百六十五夜
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Ken Uehara / Hisako Yamane
other title: 三百六十五夜
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her. Only to discover that his father is is in debt and wants him to marry Ranko so that she may help his company by granting 1.5 million yen. Teruko decides to borrow money from a greedy bar owner who lends her money on certain conditions and photographs her without her consent. A love traingle forms between Koroku, Ranko, and Teruko. Things complicate when Koroku marries Teruko and Tsugawa threatens them for the money causing many twists and turns.
Bridge of Japan (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本橋
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Chikage Awashima / Ayako Wakao
other title: 日本橋
Ichikawa's 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha work of decadence, aestheticism, and intrigue. Ichikawa's film presents the tragic plot of the young geisha who is unable to enact her love for a man publicly in any way other than a histrionic story of torment, a heart-rending tale of lovers being crushed by fate. Instead, Ichikawa shows the contest of wills that transpires as two geisha, Oko and Kiyoha fight for the top spot in Nihonbashi, the pinnacle of the Tokyo geisha world. Nihonbashi is an elegant, if steely, exposition of manners. The young doctor, Shinzo Katsuragi, is the object of affection for both women, but appears to be more the choice reward for the plotting and thieving of these two early modern superwomen, than a lover they swoon over.
Bonchi (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ぼんち
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Ayako Wakao
other title: ぼんち
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, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
Murder of the Inugami Clan (2006) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
犬神家の一族
other title: La familia Inugami / 犬神家の一族
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.