Kon Ichikawa

Japanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008)

Born

20 November 1915, Ise

Died

13 February 2008

Citizenship

Japan

Occupation

film director, screenwriter, film producer, animator, film screenwriter

Films here

4

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.”"

Filmography (martial arts films)

Frequent collaborators

• Ryudo Uzaki

External links

• Wikipedia
• IMDb
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q55397 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.