For fans of Kon Ichikawa: what to watch, read & play next

Elderly parents travel to Tokyo and find their adult children barely have time for them.

A widowed mother's every sacrifice is met by children chasing material comfort in postwar Japan.

Family debt and forbidden love tangle when a young man discovers his Tokyo apartment's hidden past.

A blind swordsman honours a dying woman's wish, uncovering a local boss's exploitation and corruption.

A low-ranking vassal and his comrades move against a greedy superior to protect what they believe in.

Three ronin wander feudal Japan selling their services, clinging to pride despite every indignity.

An adaptation of Yoshie Hotta's novel, set in Japan.

A man returns from France after years away, reawakening a suppressed love that now forces two sisters to choose.

A man and woman meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, history shaping an unlikely connection.

Three days after Japan's surrender, two sisters on a packed train face an entirely changed country.

A woman rebuilds identity after losing her memory in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

A child born to a brewery owner's mistress in early Showa Japan grows up between two divided worlds.

An abandoned infant found at a rural station in 1924 sets off a story rooted in place and belonging.

A daughter carries out a dying father's difficult request across decades with quiet, immovable resolve.

A hasty remarriage of convenience slowly becomes something warmer between two people who need shelter.

A young woman must take over her family's traditional miso business and decide how much of herself to sacrifice.

In 1956 Tokyo, a former cop turned private eye investigates a series of bizarre murders.

In Hinamizawa's early summer heat, a close-knit village hides violence beneath ordinary warmth.

Hinamizawa's layered secrets deepen as the cicadas return, pressing characters toward desperate choices.

The village's long summer continues, each chapter peeling back another layer of collective guilt.

Early summer in Hinamizawa: a deceptively peaceful village where surface calm proves deadly.

A small rural community slowly reveals how shared secrets can shape and break ordinary people.

Rural Japan, 1983: summer festival rituals mask something sinister in a tightly bound village.

A newcomer arrives in Hinamizawa and the village's welcoming face gradually, unsettlingly slips.

Chieko, adopted daughter of a Kyoto kimono designer, searches for identity amid family silence.

Kei is drawn to a seaside town where she tries to unlock buried memories of her disappeared husband.

On the eve of World War II, a young man convalescing by the Japanese coast finds quiet, unspoken sorrow.

Yoshie processes her father's death in a suicide pact, grief surfacing slowly through Tokyo neighbourhood life.

A woman waits in an empty bakery to buy a birthday treat; the mundane briefly loses its footing.

Three men driven by revenge, ambition, and unfinished pasts converge as fate moves with ruthless precision.

A young man searches Tokyo for the wealthy father he never knew, stumbling into the city's underworld.

A 1973 Osaka murder haunts decades, a detective's patient work showing how violence echoes through generations.