Kon Ichikawa

Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter... See full summary >> Director: Kon Ichikawa Writers: Shinya Hidaka, Kon Ichikawa, and 3 more credits >> Stars: ToshirO Mifune, Ayako Wakao and Yasuko Sawaguchi Loading Watchlist View Watchlist >> New List Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

This lyrical adaptation of the beloved novel by Junichiro Tanizaki was a late-career triumph for director Kon Ichikawa. Structured around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki) follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up to the Pacific War. The two oldest have been married for some time, but according to tradition, the rebellious youngest sister cannot wed until the third, conservative and terribly shy, finds a husband. This graceful study of a family at a turning point in history is a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs, shot in rich, vivid colors. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Tetsuro Hoshino, orphaned by the Cyborgs, lives in a slum in the shadow of their megapolis. He steals a pass for Galaxy Express 999, and is saved by a mysterious woman called Maitre, a living image of his mother who had been killed by the Cyborgs. Wearing a special pendant, he sets out for Andromeda where he can obtain eternal life and avenge his parents' death. On his odyssey, he meets a gallery of fantastic characters that help him exterminate the evil Star of Andromeda which had been giving mechanical bodies to rich human beings. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

Magnificently shot in hushed black and white, Kon Ichikawa's The Burmese Harp is an eloquent meditation on beauty coexisting with death and remains one of Japanese cinema's most overwhelming antiwar statements, both tender and brutal in its grappling with Japan's wartime legacy. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.

In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation. Watch Movies Online for Free on 10StarMovies.