Kon Ichikawa

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1915-11-20 (93 years old)

Deathday

2008-02-13

Place of Birth

Mie, Japan

Kon Ichikawa

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.

Acting

2008

The Magic Hour

as Film Director

2000

Kurosawa

as Self

1973

Visions of Eight

as Narrator

Production

1994

47 Ronin

as Director

1994

47 Ronin

as Screenplay

1959

1963

1956

The Burmese Harp

as Director

1983

1983

1959

Odd Obsession

as Director

1965

Tokyo Olympiad

as Director

1965

1973

Visions of Eight

as Director

1987

2000

Dora-heita

as Director

1976

1958

Conflagration

as Director

2007

1973

The Wanderers

as Director

1960

Her Brother

as Director

1962

1961

Ten Dark Women

as Director

1975

I Am a Cat

as Director

1977

Lullaby to Kill

as Screenplay

1977

Lullaby to Kill

as Director

1987

Actress

as Writer

1987

Actress

as Director

1955

The Heart

as Director

1960

1976

1965

1962

1962

1956

Punishment Room

as Director

1954

A Billionaire

as Director

1954

A Billionaire

as Writer

1957

Hole in One

as Writer

1957

Hole in One

as Director

1938

Fallen Blossoms

as Assistant Director

2003

Musume no kekkon

as Director

1971

To Love Again

as Director

1978

The Phoenix

as Director

1970

1960

Bonchi

as Screenplay

1993

Fusa

as Director

1956

Bridge of Japan

as Director

1950

1946

1950

Pursuit At Dawn

as Director

1980

1979

1964

The Money Dance

as Director

1940

Enoken's Bow-Wow General

as Assistant Director

1981

Lonely Heart

as Screenplay

1981

Lonely Heart

as Director

1979

1950

1949

Endless Passion

as Director

2000

Dora-heita

as Screenplay

1951

Koibito

as Writer

1951

Wedding March

as Director

1951

Stolen Love

as Director

1951

Stolen Love

as Writer

1951

Bengawan Solo

as Writer

1951

Bengawan Solo

as Director

1951

Wedding March

as Writer

1978

Queen Bee

as Director

1978

Queen Bee

as Writer

1957

1953

Mr. Pu

as Director

1960

Bonchi

as Director

1953

Mr. Pu

as Writer

1985

The Burmese Harp

as Director

1977

Lullaby to Kill

as Executive Producer

1959

Odd Obsession

as Editor

1996

The 8-Tomb Village

as Screenplay

1996

1948

365 Nights

as Director

1958

Conflagration

as Writer

1991

Noh Mask Murders

as Screenplay

1991

Noh Mask Murders

as Director

1969

Kyoto

as Director

1953

The Lovers

as Writer

1953

The Lovers

as Director

1983

The Makioka Sisters

as Executive Producer

1951

Nightshade Flower

as Screenplay

1951

2001

Kah-chan

as Director

1950

Heat and Mud

as Director

1950

Heat and Mud

as Screenplay

1948

A Flower Blooms

as Director

1964

The Money Dance

as Screenplay

1952

Mr. Lucky

as Director

1984

Ohan

as Executive Producer

1984

Ohan

as Director

1984

Ohan

as Writer

1951

Koibito

as Director

1977

Island of Hell

as Executive Producer

1959

Odd Obsession

as Screenplay

1973

The Wanderers

as Producer's Assistant

1973

The Wanderers

as Screenplay

1953

1955

1952

1959

Goodbye, Hello

as Screenplay

1952

This Way, That Way

as Screenplay

1959

Goodbye, Hello

as Director

1959

1970

Dodes'ka-den

as Executive Producer

1939

Old Songs

as Assistant Director

1993

Fusa

as Writer

1988

Crane

as Director

1988

Crane

as Writer

1935

1987

Actress

as Producer

1953

1952

Forbidden Path

as Screenplay

1952

Forbidden Path

as Director

1949

Ningen moyo

as Director

2000

Shinsengumi

as Director

2000

Shinsengumi

as Writer

1943

Hyoroku's Dream Tale

as Production Manager

1943

World of Love

as Assistant Director

1957

The Crowded Train

as Screenplay

1976

The Inugami Family

as Screenplay

1977

Island of Hell

as Director

1996

1954

All of Myself

as Director

1954

All of Myself

as Writer

2002

Ten Dark Women

as Director

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