Movies

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

A story of a shopkeeper and his ex-wife, lives full of tragedy.

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will...

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.

Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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

A samurai suffers to achieve enlightenment while being forced by a Zen Buddhist.

Film mixing live action with the famous animated Italian rubber mouse, Topo Gigio.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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

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A documentary Ichikawa made for the 1970 Osaka Expo, originally made for projection on eight split panels.

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...