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Kon Ichikawa
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Japanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008)
Film & TV
Mie, Japan
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.
Known for
- The Magic Hour — Film Director2008
- The Kon Ichikawa Story — Himself2006
- Kurosawa — Self2000
- Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema — Interviewee1999
- Visions of Eight — Narrator1973
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Key facts
- Born
- Giichi Ichikawa , ( 1915-11-20 ) 20 November 1915, Ise, Mie , Empire of Japan
- Died
- 13 February 2008 (2008-02-13) (aged 92), Tokyo, Japan
- Occupations
- Film director, screenwriter
- Years active
- 1936–2008
- Notable work
- The Burmese Harp (1956) Odd Obsession (1959) Fires on the Plain (1959) An Actor's Revenge (1963) Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
- Spouse
- Natto Wada ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 ; died 1983 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Ise
- Place of death
- Ise
- Spouse
- Natto Wada
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Official website
- konichikawa.com
- Image
- Kon Ichikawa.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1915-11-20
- date of death
- 2008-02-13
- Commons category
- Kon Ichikawa
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- name in native language
- 市川崑
- name in kana
- いちかわ こん
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- Japanese people
- writing language
- Japanese
- birth name
- Uji Yamada
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Encyclopedic overview
Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑, Ichikawa Kon; 20 November 1915 – 13 February 2008) 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 (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
At his death in 2008, The New York Times recalled that "The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, called him in 2001 “the last living link between the golden age of Japanese cinema, the spunky New Wave that followed and contemporary Japanese film.”"
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