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Name: Kon Ichikawa  
   
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Date of Birth: 20th November 1915
   
Place of Birth: Mie, Japan
   
Profession: Director
 
 
From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia

Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑 Ichikawa Kon) (born November 20, 1915, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is one of the better known Japanese film directors.

He gained his western credibility in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of bleak films - two antiwar films with The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, Conflagration in which a priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution, Alone in the Pacific and the technically formidable An Actor's Revenge about a Kabuki actor.

Many of his films are literary adaptations, works including Tanizaki Junichiro's The Key (1959) and The Makioka Sisters (1983), Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1955) and I Am a Cat (1965), and Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (as Enjo (1958)).

His films were often screen-written by his wife, Natto Wada, and when she ceased this activity at the end of the 1960s it marked a change in his films.

It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of genres. Some critics class him with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu as one of the masters of Japanese cinema.

Filmography

  • Hana Hiraku (1948)
  • Sanbyaku Rokujugo-ya (1948)
  • Ningen Moyo (1949)
  • Hateshinaki Jonetsu (1949)
  • Ginza Sanshiro (1950),
  • Akatsuki no Tsuiseki (1950),
  • Ye-Rai-Shang (1951),
  • Koibito (1951),
  • Mukokuseki-Mono (1951),
  • Nusumareta Koi (1951),
  • Bungawan Solo (1951),
  • Kekkon Koshin-kyoku (1951),
  • Lucky San (1952),
  • Wakai Hito (1952),
  • Ashi ni Sawatta Onna (1952),
  • Ano te Kono te (1952),
  • Pusan (1953),
  • Aoiro Kakumei (1953),
  • Seishun Zenigata Heiji (1953),
  • Aijin (1953),
  • Watashi no Subete O (1954),
  • A Billionaire (1954),
  • Seishun Kaidan (1955),
  • The Heart (1955),
  • The Burmese Harp (1956),
  • Punishment Room (1956),
  • Nihonbashi (1956),
  • Manin Densha (1957),
  • The Men of Tohoku (1957),
  • Conflagration (1958),
  • Sayonara Konnichiwa (1959),
  • The Key (1959),
  • Fires on the Plain (1959),
  • Keisatsukan to Boroyuku-dan (1959),
  • Ginza no Mosa (1960),
  • Bonchi (1960),
  • Jokyo (1960),
  • Her Brother (1960),
  • Kuroi Junin no Onna (1961),
  • The Sin (1962),
  • Being Two Isn't Easy (1962),
  • An Actor's Revenge (1963),
  • Alone in the Pacific (1963),
  • Dokonji Monogatari (1964),
  • Tokyo Olympiad (documentary) (1965),
  • Top Gigio e i sei Ladri (1968),
  • Tournament (1968),
  • Ai Futatabi (1971),
  • The Wanderers (1973),
  • Wagahai wa Neko Dearu (1975),
  • Akuma no Temari-uta (1977),
  • Inugamike no Ichizoku (1977),
  • Gokumon-to (1978),
  • Hi no Tori (1978),
  • Joh-on Bachi (1978),
  • Hi no Tori (1980),
  • Kofuku (1982),
  • Sasame Yuki (1983),
  • Biruma no Tategoto (1983),
  • Ohan (1983),
  • Rokumeikan (1986),
  • Eiga Joyu (1987),
  • Taketori Monogatari (1987),
  • Tsuru (1988),
  • Tenkawa densetsu satsujin jiken (1991),
  • Fusa (1993),
  • Shijushichinin no shikaku (1994),
  • Yatsuhaka-mura (1996),
  • Dora-heita (1999)

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