- Country: Japan
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1981-04-01
- Director: Kon Ichikawa
- Writers: Kon Ichikawa , Natto Wada , Toyoko Yamasaki
- Language: Japanese
- Stars: Raizō Ichikawa , Tamao Nakamura , Mitsukô Kusabue , Machiko Kyō , Ayako Wakao , Fubuki Koshiji , Kikue Mōri , Isuzu Yamada , Eiji Funakoshi
- Runtime: 105 min
- Awards: 1 win
- AKA: Bonchi (France, French Republic) , Orzeł (Poland) , ぼんち (Japan) , Il primogenito (Italy) , Сын (Russian Federation) , Bonchi (Finland) , Bonchi
- Plot:
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. Driven to a life of dissipation – his mistresses also fail to produce daughters – in the end he is just too tired to care. The film presages Ichikawa’s The Makioka Sisters in its World War II nostalgia and visual sophistication.
- IMDB:tt0053665
Bonchi Cast · · · ALL
Kon Ichikawa
Director
Raizō Ichikawa
Kikuji
Ayako Wakao
Ponta
Fubuki Koshiji
Hisako
Tamao Nakamura
Hiroko
Isuzu Yamada
Sei
Narutoshi Hayashi
Ganjirô Nakamura II
Kikue Mōri
Kino
Mayumi Kurata
Tanie Kitabayashi
Machiko Kyō
Ofuku
Eiji Funakoshi
Kihei
Ichirō Sugai
Mantarō Ushio
Ikuko Môri
Jun Hamamura
San’emon Arashi
Saburo Date
Kanae Kobayashi
Keiko Koyanagi