Japanese
Kon Ichikawa
89 films · 1936 to 2007
Born 20 November 1915, Mie, Japan · Died 13 February 2008
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, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Defining films
Films by decade
Crane
Actress
Princess from the Moon
The Hall of the Crying Deer
The Burmese Harp
Ohan
The Makioka Sisters
Lonely Heart
Koto: The Ancient City
The House of Hanging
The Phoenix
Queen Bee
Lullaby to Kill
Island of Hell
The Inugami Family
Between Women and Wives
I Am a Cat
Visions of Eight
The Wanderers
To Love Again
Japan and the Japanese
Kyoto
Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament
Topo Gigio and the Missile War
The Tale of Genji
Tokyo Olympiad
The Money Dance
Alone Across the Pacific
An Actor's Revenge
Being Two Isn't Easy
The Broken Commandment
Ten Dark Women
A Woman's Testament
Her Brother
Bonchi
Fires on the Plain
Odd Obsession
Goodbye, Hello
Conflagration
The Crowded Train
The Men of Toho-ku
Hole in One
Bridge of Japan
Punishment Room
The Burmese Harp
Ghost Story of Youth
The Heart
The Heart
12 Chapters About Women
A Billionaire
All of Myself
The Blue Revolution
Mr. Pu
Youth of Heiji Senigata
The Lovers
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
This Way, That Way
Forbidden Path
Mr. Lucky
Wedding March
Bengawan Solo
Koibito
The Man Without a Nationality
Stolen Love
Nightshade Flower
Sanshiro of Ginza
Pursuit At Dawn
Heat and Mud
