Kon Ichikawa

Filmography

Kon Ichikawa - filmography

Princess From The Moon on DVD (1987)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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When a mysterious light appears in the sky a poor couple investigate and find a small pod near the grave of their daughter. The pod breaks open to reveal a small baby who looks very much like their daughter. They decide to adopt her and she grows up to be a young lady of exceptional beauty who is ..read more »

48% from 195 members

Alone Across The Pacific on DVD (1963)
Starring: Yujiro Ishihara
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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A powerful hymn to the human spirit, Alone Across the Pacific - by renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa (An Actor's Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad) - tells the extraordinary real-life story of one man's obsessive quest to break free from the strictures of society. In 1962, Kenichi ..read more »

66% from 86 members

An Actor's Revenge on DVD (1962)
Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Perhaps director Kon Ichikawa's most stylistically inventive film, AN ACTOR'S REVENGE was adapted from a newspaper serial written by Otokichi Mikami and stars Kazuo Hasegawa as Yukinojo Nakamura, a celebrated "oyama," or female impersonator, working with the Ichimura kabuki troupe in 1836 Edo. ..read more »

67% from 832 members

The Burmese Harp on DVD (1956)
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Kon Ichikawa's antiwar classic depicts the aftermath of the Burmese campaign of World War II and centres on a soldier who, after a series of horrifying experiences, comes to realize that his vocation is to bury the unknown dead.

73% from 169 members

Burmese Harp - Blu-ray (1956)
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Akira Nishimura, Tanie Kitabayashi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Set against the final days of World War II, THE BURMESE HARP portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred Japanese soldiers as they prepare to return to Japan. The film focuses on Shoji Yasui, a soldier known to his comrades for his harp playing, who fails to convince a resistant ..read more »

70% from 80 members

Kokoro on DVD (1955)
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Tatsuya Mihashi, Michiyo Aratama
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Brimful with brooding psychological torment, Kokoro is vintage Kon Ichikawa (An Actor's Revenge, The Burmese Harp, Tokyo Olympiad). Based on a novel by celebrated Japanese author Natsume Soseki, the director foregrounds its themes of individual isolation and social estrangement, most notably in a ..read more »

70% from 88 members

Ten Nights of Dreams
Starring: Kyôko Koizumi, Suzuki Matsuo, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Director: Yoshitaka Amano, Kon Ichikawa
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Legendary Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume opens this film by admitting that the book "Ten Nights of Dreams" is meant to be a mystery, one which might not be solved for a hundred years. He says this in 1906, and the maid he's addressing comments that she'd have to reincarnate to see that. A hundred ..read more »

30% from 4 members
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Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
Alone Across The Pacific - 3.5 stars
An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars
The Burmese Harp - 3.5 stars
Burmese Harp - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

The Burmese Harp - 3.5 stars
Burmese Harp - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Kokoro - 3.5 stars
An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars
Alone Across The Pacific - 3.5 stars

Ten Nights of Dreams - 1.5 stars
Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
Alone Across The Pacific - 3.5 stars
An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars
Kokoro - 3.5 stars

Shoji Yasui - 3 times - show films
Ko Nishimura - 2 times - show films
Taketoshi Naito - 2 times - show films
Jun Hamamura - 2 times - show films
Ayako Wakao - 2 times - show films

Yoshitaka Amano - 1 times - show films