Kon Ichikawa
- Directing
- November 20, 1915 · Mie, Japan
- February 13, 2008
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Magic Hour · Film Director
- Ten Nights of Dreams · Director
- Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams · Director
- Murder of the Inugami Clan · Writer, Director
- The Kon Ichikawa Story · Self
- Musume no kekkon · Director
- Ten Dark Women · Director
- The Life of Bangaku · Director
- Kah-chan · Director
- Kurosawa · Self
- Dora-heita · Director, Screenplay
- Shinsengumi · Director, Writer
- Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema · Interviewee
- The 8-Tomb Village · Screenplay, Director
- Un bel dì vedremo · Story
- Fusa · Director, Writer
- 47 Ronin · Director, Screenplay
- Kogarashi Monjirō Returns · Director, Screenplay
- Noh Mask Murders · Screenplay, Director
- Battleship Yamato · Director, Screenplay
- Crane · Director, Writer
- Princess from the Moon · Director, Writer
- Actress · Director, Producer
- The Hall of the Crying Deer · Writer, Director
- The Adventures of Milo and Otis · Co-Director
- The Burmese Harp · Director
- Ohan · Executive producer, Director
- The Makioka Sisters · Director, Writer
- Lonely Heart · Screenplay, Director
- Koto: The Ancient City · Writer, Director
- Galaxy Express 999: The Movie · Screenplay
- The House of Hanging · Director, Screenplay
- The Phoenix · Director
- Queen Bee · Director, Writer
- Island of Hell · Executive producer, Director
- Lullaby to Kill · Screenplay, Director
- The Inugami Family · Director, Screenplay
- Between Women and Wives · Director
- I Am a Cat · Director
- Visions of Eight · Narrator, Director
- The Wanderers · Director, Producer's Assistant
- Kogarashi Monjiro · Writer, Director
- To Love Again · Director
- Dodes'ka-den · Executive producer
- Japan and the Japanese · Director
- Kyoto · Director
- Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament · Director
- Topo Gigio and the Missile War · Writer, Director
- The Tale of Genji · Director
- Tokyo Olympics (International Version) · Director
- Tokyo Olympiad · Director, Writer
- The Money Dance · Director, Screenplay
- Alone Across the Pacific · Director
- An Actor's Revenge · Director
- Being Two Isn't Easy · Director, Producer
- The Broken Commandment · Director
- Ten Women in Black · Director
- Her Brother · Director
- The Woman Who Touched Legs · Writer, Executive producer
- Bonchi · Screenplay, Director
- A Woman's Testament · Director
- Fires on the Plain · Director
- Odd Obsession · Director, Editing
- Goodbye, Hello · Screenplay, Director
- Conflagration · Director, Screenplay
- Edo wa aozora · Adaptation
- Hole in One · Writer, Director
- The Men of Toho-ku · Director, Screenplay
- The Crowded Train · Director, Screenplay
- Bridge of Japan · Director
- Punishment Room · Director
- The Burmese Harp · Director
- The Heart · Director
- Ghost Story of Youth · Director
- 12 Chapters About Women · Director
- A Billionaire · Director, Writer
- All of Myself · Director, Writer
- The Lovers · Writer, Director
- Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth · Director, Screenplay
- The Blue Revolution · Director