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Tag Archives: Kon Ichikawa
Hell’s Gate Island AKA Gokumon-to (1977) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Yôko Tsukasa, Reiko Ôhara
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946. Read More »
The Crowded Train AKA Manin densha (1957) Kon Ichikawa, Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Chishû Ryû, Haruko Sugimura
Tamio Moroi graduates from a prestigious university and obtains a job at the Camel Brewery in a distant town. Read More »
The Inugami Family AKA Inugami-ke no ichizoku (1976) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi
After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances Read More »
Ten Nights of Dreams AKA Yume jû-ya (2006) Yoshitaka Amano, Kon Ichikawa, Kyôko Koizumi, Suzuki Matsuo, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Based on renowned Japanese writer Natsume Soseki’s same-titled short story collection Read More »
Queen Bee AKA Joôbachi (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Koji Ishizaka, Mieko Takamine, Keiko Kishi
Private detective Kindaichi investigates a series of murders in scenic rural Japan. Read More »
Lonely Heart AKA Kôfuku (1981) Kon Ichikawa, Yutaka Mizutani, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Rie Nakahara
The plot of ”Lonely Heart” concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. Read More »
Conflagration (1958) Kon Ichikawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai
Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father Read More »
Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978) Kon Ichikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made Read More »
An Actors Revenge (1963) Kon Ichikawa, Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier Read More »
Alley Cat (2000) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Yakusho, Yûko Asano, Tsurutarô Kataoka
Samurai Koheita Mochizuki, who goes by the nickname Dora-Heita, meaning “alley cat” or “playboy” Read More »
The Inugamis (2006) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »
Being Two Isnt Easy (1962) Kon Ichikawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Hiroo Suzuki, Eiji Funakoshi, Comedy, Drama
The trials, tribulations, and joys of raising a child. The film follows the everyday events of a family with one boy Read More »
Biruma no tategoto / The Burmese Harp (1956) Kon Ichikawa, Rentarô Mikuni, Shôji Yasui, Tatsuya Mihashi, Drama, Music, War
Koto / Ancient City (1980) Kon Ichikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Kishi, Drama
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s story The Old Capital. Read More »