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.

Birthday

Nov 20, 1915

Place of birth

Mie, Japan

Deathday

Feb 13, 2008

Also known as

이치카와 곤
Кон Итикава
久里子亭
市川儀一
大川新之助
市川秋六
市川根作
곤 이치카와
이치가와 곤
곤 이치가와
콘 이치카와
이치카와 콘
Kon Ichikawa
市川昆

Credited in

As cast

The Magic Hour
As Film Director
The Kon Ichikawa Story
As Himself
Kurosawa
As Self
Visions of Eight
As Narrator
Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema
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As Interviewee

As crew

47 Ronin
Role: Director
47 Ronin
Role: Screenplay
Fires on the Plain
Role: Director
Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament
Role: Director
An Actor's Revenge
Role: Director
The Burmese Harp
Role: Director
The Makioka Sisters
Role: Director
The Makioka Sisters
Role: Writer
Odd Obsession
Role: Director
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Role: Co-Director
Tokyo Olympiad
Role: Director
Tokyo Olympiad
Role: Writer
Visions of Eight
Role: Director
Princess from the Moon
Role: Director
Princess from the Moon
Role: Writer
Dora-heita
Role: Director
The Inugami Family
Role: Director
Murder of the Inugami Clan
Role: Writer
Murder of the Inugami Clan
Role: Director
Alone Across the Pacific
Role: Director
Conflagration
Role: Director
Ten Nights of Dreams
Role: Director
The Wanderers
Role: Director
Her Brother
Role: Director
The Broken Commandment
Role: Director
Ten Dark Women
Role: Director
I Am a Cat
Role: Director
Lullaby to Kill
Role: Screenplay
Lullaby to Kill
Role: Director
Actress
Role: Writer
Actress
Role: Director
The Heart
Role: Director
A Woman's Testament
Role: Director
Tsuma to onna no aida
Role: Director
Tokyo Olympiad
Role: Thanks
Being Two Isn't Easy
Role: Director
Being Two Isn't Easy
Role: Producer
Punishment Room
Role: Director
A Billionaire
Role: Director
A Billionaire
Role: Writer
Hole in One
Role: Writer
Hole in One
Role: Director
Fallen Blossoms
Role: Assistant Director
Musume no kekkon
Role: Director
To Love Again
Role: Director
The Phoenix
Role: Director
Japan and the Japanese
No picture available
Role: Director
Bonchi
Role: Screenplay
Fusa
Role: Director
Bridge of Japan
Role: Director
Pursuit At Dawn
Role: Story
A Girl At Dojo Temple
Role: Director
Pursuit At Dawn
Role: Director
Koto: The Ancient City
Role: Writer
Koto: The Ancient City
Role: Director
The House of Hanging
Role: Director
The Money Dance
Role: Director
Enoken's Bow-Wow General
Role: Assistant Director
Lonely Heart
Role: Screenplay
Lonely Heart
Role: Director
The House of Hanging
Role: Screenplay
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
Role: Director
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
Role: Writer
Sanshiro of Ginza
Role: Director
Endless Passion
Role: Director
Dora-heita
Role: Screenplay
Koibito
Role: Writer
The Man Without a Nationality
Role: Director
Wedding March
Role: Director
Stolen Love
Role: Director
Stolen Love
Role: Writer
Bengawan Solo
Role: Writer
Bengawan Solo
Role: Director
Wedding March
Role: Writer
Queen Bee
Role: Director
Queen Bee
Role: Writer
The Crowded Train
Role: Director
Mr. Pu
Role: Director
Bonchi
Role: Director
Mr. Pu
Role: Writer
The Burmese Harp
Role: Director
Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama
Role: Writer
Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams
Role: Director
Lullaby to Kill
Role: Executive Producer
Odd Obsession
Role: Editor
The 8-Tomb Village
Role: Screenplay
The 8-Tomb Village
Role: Director
365 Nights
Role: Director
Conflagration
Role: Writer
Noh Mask Murders
Role: Screenplay
Noh Mask Murders
Role: Director
Topo Gigio and the Missile War
Role: Writer
Topo Gigio and the Missile War
Role: Director
Kyoto
Role: Director
The Lovers
Role: Writer
The Lovers
Role: Director
The Woman Who Touched Legs
Role: Writer
The Makioka Sisters
Role: Executive Producer
Nightshade Flower
Role: Screenplay
Nightshade Flower
Role: Director
Kah-chan
Role: Director
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
Role: Screenplay
Heat and Mud
Role: Director
Heat and Mud
Role: Screenplay
A Flower Blooms
Role: Director
The Money Dance
Role: Screenplay
Mr. Lucky
Role: Director
Ohan
Role: Executive Producer
Ohan
Role: Director
Ohan
Role: Writer
Koibito
Role: Director
Island of Hell
Role: Executive Producer
Odd Obsession
Role: Screenplay
The Wanderers
Role: Producer's Assistant
The Wanderers
Role: Screenplay
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Role: Screenplay
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Role: Director
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Role: Director
Kogarashi Monjirō Returns
Role: Screenplay
The Blue Revolution
Role: Director
Ghost Story of Youth
Role: Director
This Way, That Way
Role: Director
Goodbye, Hello
Role: Screenplay
This Way, That Way
Role: Screenplay
Goodbye, Hello
Role: Director
Goodbye, Hello
Role: Story
Dodes'ka-den
Role: Executive Producer
Old Songs
Role: Assistant Director
Fusa
Role: Writer
Crane
Role: Director
Crane
Role: Writer
Cowardly samurai squad
No picture available
Role: Animation
Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama
Role: Director
Actress
Role: Producer
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Role: Director
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Role: Screenplay
Forbidden Path
Role: Screenplay
Forbidden Path
Role: Director
Ningen moyo
Role: Director
Shinsengumi
Role: Director
Shinsengumi
Role: Writer
Hyoroku's Dream Tale
Role: Production Manager
World of Love
Role: Assistant Director
The Hall of the Crying Deer
Role: Writer
The Hall of the Crying Deer
Role: Director
The Crowded Train
Role: Screenplay
The Inugami Family
Role: Screenplay
Island of Hell
Role: Director
Un bel dì vedremo
No picture available
Role: Story
All of Myself
Role: Director
All of Myself
Role: Writer
12 Chapters About Women
Role: Director
Ten Dark Women
Role: Director