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Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Bonchi (1960) - Kon Ichikawa on AllMovie - Although shown at Japan House in 1981, Bonchi was…
Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑, Ichikawa Kon, 20 November 1915 – 13 February 2008) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, [1 ...
1 hr 45 mins. Comedy. NR. Watchlist. Where to Watch. Although shown at Japan House in 1981, Bonchi was first released in Japan in 1960 as an attack, with and without humor, on the beginnings of...
- Kon Ichikawa
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son.
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- Drama
- Kon Ichikawa
- 1981-04
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1981 Vinyl release of "The Bonchi Club" on Discogs.
- 10
- Vinyl, LP, Album
- Japan
- For Life Records-28K-19
1 hr 45 mins. Comedy. NR. Watchlist. Although shown at Japan House in 1981, Bonchi was first released in Japan in 1960 as an attack, with and without humor, on the beginnings of the feminist...
Apr 22, 2004 · In Conflagration, the destruction of Kyoto’s famed Golden Pavilion is seen in the context of the confusion of a defeated nation, while in Bonchi, a story of the merchant class in pre-war Osaka, only the apocalypse of war can destroy the oppressive family structures of that social group.
