Kon Ichikawa
1915 - 2008
若い人
Kon Ichikawa
Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Ryō Ikebe
MAZAKI Shintaro is a teacher at a mission school, in a relationship with the English teacher Sumi HASHIMOTO. Young, single and handsome MAZAKI is popular among the women, One day, after reading somethiing unusual in the essay of a third...v
Forbidden Path
東京オリンピック
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Ahmed Issa
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic pole-vaulting match between West Germany and America, and the final marathon race through Tokyo's streets. Two athletes are highlighted: Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila, who receives his second gold medal, and runner Ahamed Isa from Chad, representing a country younger than he is.
Tokyo Olympiad
あの手この手
Kon Ichikawa
Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori
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.
This Way, That Way
An Actor's Revenge
Kon Ichikawa
Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto
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, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them.
An Actor's Revenge
かあちゃん
Kon Ichikawa
Keiko Kishi, Ryûji Harada
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.
Kah-chan
