Kon Ichikawa

Known for: Directing
Born: November 20, 1915, Mie, Japan
Died: February 13, 2008
Movies: 98

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.8

The Burmese Harp

1956

7.6

Fires on the Plain

1959

6.9

Galaxy Express 999: The Movie

1979

6.6

An Actor's Revenge

1963

7.7

Tokyo Olympiad

1965

7.4

The Makioka Sisters

1983

7.5

The Magic Hour

2008

6.8

The Inugami Family

1976

6.2

Odd Obsession

1959

7.1

Conflagration

1958

Filmography

2008	The Magic Hour	Film Director
2006	The Kon Ichikawa Story	Himself
2000	Kurosawa	Self
1999	Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema	Interviewee
1973	Visions of Eight	Narrator

Directing, Writing & Producing

2007	Ten Nights of Dreams	Director
2007	Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams	Director
2006	Murder of the Inugami Clan	Director, Writer
2003	Musume no kekkon	Director
2002	Ten Dark Women	Director
2001	Kah-chan	Director
2000	Dora-heita	Director, Screenplay
2000	Shinsengumi	Director, Writer
1996	The 8-Tomb Village	Screenplay, Director
1995	Fusa	Director, Writer
1994	47 Ronin	Director, Screenplay
1993	Kogarashi Monjirō Returns	Director, Screenplay
1991	Noh Mask Murders	Director, Screenplay
1990	Battleship Yamato	Director, Screenplay
1988	Crane	Director, Writer
1987	Princess from the Moon	Director, Writer
1987	Actress	Director, Producer, Screenplay
1986	The Hall of the Crying Deer	Director, Writer
1985	The Burmese Harp	Director
1984	Ohan	Director, Writer
1983	The Makioka Sisters	Director, Writer
1981	Lonely Heart	Director, Screenplay
1980	Koto: The Ancient City	Director, Writer
1979	Galaxy Express 999: The Movie	Screenplay
1979	The House of Hanging	Director, Screenplay
1978	The Phoenix	Director
1978	Queen Bee	Director, Writer
1977	Island of Hell	Director
1977	Lullaby to Kill	Director, Screenplay
1976	The Inugami Family	Director, Screenplay
1976	Between Women and Wives	Director
1975	I Am a Cat	Director
1973	Visions of Eight	Director
1973	The Wanderers	Director, Screenplay
1971	To Love Again	Director
1970	Japan and the Japanese	Director
1969	Kyoto	Director
1968	Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament	Director
1967	Topo Gigio and the Missile War	Director, Writer
1966	The Tale of Genji	Director
1965	Tokyo Olympics (International Version)	Director
1965	Tokyo Olympiad	Director, Writer
1964	The Money Dance	Director, Screenplay
1963	Alone Across the Pacific	Director
1963	An Actor's Revenge	Director
1962	Being Two Isn't Easy	Director, Producer
1962	The Broken Commandment	Director
1961	Ten Women in Black	Director
1960	Her Brother	Director
1960	The Woman Who Touched Legs	Writer
1960	Bonchi	Screenplay, Director
1960	A Woman's Testament	Director
1959	Fires on the Plain	Director
1959	Odd Obsession	Director, Screenplay
1959	Goodbye, Hello	Director, Screenplay
1958	Conflagration	Director, Screenplay
1957	Hole in One	Director, Writer
1957	The Men of Toho-ku	Director, Screenplay
1957	The Crowded Train	Director, Screenplay
1956	Bridge of Japan	Director
1956	Punishment Room	Director
1956	The Burmese Harp	Director
1955	The Heart	Director
1955	Ghost Story of Youth	Director
1954	12 Chapters About Women	Director
1954	A Billionaire	Director, Writer
1954	All of Myself	Director, Writer
1953	The Lovers	Director, Writer
1953	Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth	Director, Screenplay
1953	The Blue Revolution	Director
1953	Mr. Pu	Director, Writer
1952	This Way, That Way	Director, Screenplay
1952	The Woman Who Touched the Legs	Screenplay, Director
1952	Forbidden Path	Director, Screenplay
1952	Mr. Lucky	Director
1951	Wedding March	Director, Writer
1951	Bengawan Solo	Director, Writer
1951	Stolen Love	Director, Writer
1951	The Man Without a Nationality	Director
1951	Koibito	Writer, Director
1951	Nightshade Flower	Director, Screenplay
1950	Pursuit At Dawn	Director
1950	Heat and Mud	Director, Screenplay
1950	Sanshiro of Ginza	Director
1949	Endless Passion	Director
1949	Ningen moyo	Director
1948	365 Nights: Osaka	Director
1948	365 Nights: Tokyo	Director
1948	365 Nights	Director
1948	A Flower Blooms	Director
1947	A Thousand and One Nights with Toho	Director, Writer
1946	A Girl At Dojo Temple	Director
1936	Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama	Writer, Director

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