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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] and the ...
- Tokyo Olympiad
Tokyo Olympiad, also known in Japan as Tōkyō Olympic...
- An Actor's Revenge
An Actor's Revenge (Japanese: 雪之丞変化, Hepburn: Yukinojō...
- Tokyo Olympiad
Kon Ichikawa. Director: The Inugami Family. Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse.
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Kon Ichikawa. Director: The Inugami Family. Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse.
- November 20, 1915
- February 13, 2008
Feb 14, 2008 · Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese film director whose versatility ranged beyond his well-known antiwar dramas like “The Burmese Harp” and “Fires on the Plain” to comedies, documentaries and literary...
May 2, 2018 · A beginner’s path through the classic-packed career of Japanese master filmmaker Kon Ichikawa.
Jul 22, 2021 · Kon Ichikawa's study of Tokyo's 1964 Games is considered one of the world's greatest documentaries. It captured the essence of a post-crisis nation – will a new film do the same?
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Kon Ichikawa 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 and Fires on the Plain, to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad, which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge.