Kon Ichikawa
Born: 1915-11-20 in Mie, Japan
Died: 2008-02-13
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2008
- The Magic Hour as Film Director
2007
- Ten Nights of Dreams ... (Director)
- Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams ... (Director)
2006
- Murder of the Inugami Clan ... (Writer)
- The Kon Ichikawa Story as Himself
2003
- Musume no kekkon ... (Director)
2002
- Ten Dark Women ... (Director)
- The Life of Bangaku ... (Director)
2001
- Kah-chan ... (Director)
2000
- Kurosawa as Self
- Dora-heita ... (Director)
- Shinsengumi ... (Director)
1999
- Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema as Interviewee
1996
- The 8-Tomb Village ... (Screenplay)
- Un bel dì vedremo ... (Story)
1995
- Fusa ... (Director)
1994
- 47 Ronin ... (Director)
1993
- Kogarashi Monjirō Returns ... (Director)
1991
- Noh Mask Murders ... (Screenplay)
1988
- Crane ... (Director)
1987
- Actress ... (Writer)
- Princess from the Moon ... (Director)
1986
- The Hall of the Crying Deer ... (Writer)
- The Adventures of Milo and Otis ... (Co-Director)
1985
- The Burmese Harp ... (Director)
1984
- Ohan ... (Executive Producer)
1983
- The Makioka Sisters ... (Director)
1981
- Lonely Heart ... (Screenplay)
1980
- Koto: The Ancient City ... (Writer)
1979
- Galaxy Express 999: The Movie ... (Screenplay)
- The House of Hanging ... (Director)
1978
- Queen Bee ... (Director)
- The Phoenix ... (Director)
1977
- Island of Hell ... (Executive Producer)
- Lullaby to Kill ... (Screenplay)
1976
- The Inugami Family ... (Director)
- Tsuma to onna no aida ... (Director)
1975
- I Am a Cat ... (Director)
1973
- The Wanderers ... (Director)
- Visions of Eight as Narrator
1972
- Kogarashi Monjiro ... (Writer)
1971
- To Love Again ... (Director)
1970
- Dodes'ka-den ... (Executive Producer)
- 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 ... (Writer)
1965
- Tokyo Olympiad ... (Director)
1964
- The Money Dance ... (Director)
1963
- An Actor's Revenge ... (Director)
- Alone Across the Pacific ... (Director)
1962
- Being Two Isn't Easy ... (Director)
- The Broken Commandment ... (Director)
1961
- Ten Dark Women ... (Director)
1960
- Her Brother ... (Director)
- A Woman's Testament ... (Director)
- Bonchi ... (Screenplay)
- The Woman Who Touched Legs ... (Writer)
1959
- Fires on the Plain ... (Director)
- Odd Obsession ... (Director)
- Goodbye, Hello ... (Screenplay)
1958
- Conflagration ... (Director)
1957
- Hole in One ... (Writer)
- The Crowded Train ... (Director)
1956
- The Burmese Harp ... (Director)
- Punishment Room ... (Director)
- Bridge of Japan ... (Director)
1955
- Ghost Story of Youth ... (Director)
- The Heart ... (Director)
1954
- A Billionaire ... (Director)
- All of Myself ... (Director)
- 12 Chapters About Women ... (Director)
1953
- The Lovers ... (Writer)
- Youth of Heiji Senigata ... (Director)
- The Blue Revolution ... (Director)
- Mr. Pu ... (Director)
1952
- Forbidden Path ... (Screenplay)
- Mr. Lucky ... (Director)
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs ... (Screenplay)
- This Way, That Way ... (Director)
1951
- Wedding March ... (Director)
- Koibito ... (Writer)
- Nightshade Flower ... (Screenplay)
- Bengawan Solo ... (Writer)
- Stolen Love ... (Director)
- The Man Without a Nationality ... (Director)
1950
- Heat and Mud ... (Director)
- Pursuit At Dawn ... (Story)
- Sanshiro of Ginza ... (Director)
1949
- Ningen moyo ... (Director)
- Endless Passion ... (Director)
1948
- 365 Nights ... (Director)
- A Flower Blooms ... (Director)
1947
- A Thousand and One Nights with Toho ... (Director)
1946
- A Girl At Dojo Temple ... (Director)
1943
- World of Love ... (Assistant Director)
- Hyoroku's Dream Tale ... (Production Manager)
1940
- Enoken's Bow-Wow General ... (Assistant Director)
1939
- Old Songs ... (Assistant Director)
1938
- Fallen Blossoms ... (Assistant Director)
1936
- Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama ... (Writer)
1935
- Cowardly samurai squad ... (Animation)