Portrait of Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa

Directing

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.

Born: November 20, 1915

Place of Birth: Mie, Japan

Filmography

2008
The Magic Hour

as Film Director

2000
Kurosawa

as Self

1973
Visions of Eight

as Narrator