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Director
Kon Ichikawa
Defining Films
Profile
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.
Filmography (89)
Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams
Ten Nights of Dreams
Murder of the Inugami Clan
Musume no kekkon
Ten Dark Women
Kah-chan
Shinsengumi
Dora-heita
The 8-Tomb Village
Fusa
47 Ronin
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Noh Mask Murders
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
Queen Bee
The Phoenix
Lullaby to Kill
Island of Hell
Between Women and Wives
The Inugami Family
I Am a Cat
The Wanderers
Visions of Eight
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
The Broken Commandment
Being Two Isn't Easy
Ten Dark Women
Bonchi
A Woman's Testament
Her Brother
Goodbye, Hello
Odd Obsession
Fires on the Plain
Conflagration
Hole in One
The Men of Toho-ku
The Crowded Train
The Burmese Harp
Bridge of Japan
Punishment Room
Ghost Story of Youth
The Heart
12 Chapters About Women
All of Myself
A Billionaire
The Blue Revolution
Mr. Pu
The Lovers
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Mr. Lucky
Forbidden Path
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
This Way, That Way
Wedding March
Nightshade Flower
Koibito
The Man Without a Nationality
Bengawan Solo
Stolen Love
Heat and Mud
Sanshiro of Ginza
Pursuit At Dawn
Ningen moyo
Endless Passion
365 Nights: Osaka
365 Nights: Tokyo
A Flower Blooms
365 Nights
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
A Girl At Dojo Temple
Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama