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)
| Year | Film | Credit |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Kaettekita Kogarashi Monjirō | Director |
| 1994 | 47 Ronin | Director |
| 2001 | Kah-chan | Director |
| 2001 | I Went To | Director |
Frequent collaborators
External links
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.