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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 ...
Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008) was a Japanese director, writer and producer who made films in various genres and styles. He was influenced by Disney, Renoir and Tanizaki, and won two BAFTA Awards and many other honors.
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...
Kon Ichikawa: Last Name: Ichikawa Kon: Introduction: Joined the manga department of JO in 33. Joined Toho in 36 after the merger. Directed his first film, "Hana Hiraku," at Shintoho in 48. After that, worked for Toho, Nikkatsu, and Daiei before going freelance.
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.
Jul 13, 2021 · Ichikawa was a prolific and renown director, best known for The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959) — a pair of bleak, but humanistic, anti-war films — and the stylistically daring...
Tokyo Olympiad. A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports.
