Kon Ichikawa

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he ...

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual ...

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his ...

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide ...

The days leading up to a toddler’s second birthday are seen alternately from the child’s point of view as well as that of his parents.

Ushimatsu’s father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting ...

Set in 1926 when Japanese tradition was much stronger, this standard drama looks at the inner workings of a small family, especially the ...

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.

Learning of his family’s collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute ...