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Kon Ichikawa

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Composer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born November 20, 1915Died February 13, 2008 (92 years)
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 Burmese Harp
  • The Adventures of Milo and Otis
  • Fires on the Plain
  • Tokyo Olympiad
  • Dodes'ka-den
  • An Actor's Revenge
  • The Makioka Sisters
  • The Key
  • The Inugami Family
  • Galaxy Express 999
  • Conflagration
  • Brother
  • Visions of Eight
  • Princess from the Moon
  • Alone on the Pacific
  • 47 Ronin
  • I Went To
  • The Heart
  • Being Two Isn't Easy
  • Murder of the Inugami Clan
  • Akuma no temari-uta
  • The Devil's Island
  • Ten Dark Women
  • I Am a Cat

Kon Ichikawa Filmography

2006
2003
2000
I Went To · as Screenplay
1996
The 8-Tomb Village · as Screenplay
1994
47 Ronin · as Screenplay
1993
1991
Noh Mask Murders · as Screenplay
1988
1987
1987
1984
1983
1981
Kôfuku · as Screenplay
1980
1979
Galaxy Express 999 · as Screenplay
1979
The House of Hanging · as Screenplay
1978
1977
The Devil's Island · as Screenplay
1977
Akuma no temari-uta · as Screenplay
1976
The Inugami Family · as Screenplay
1973
The Wanderers · as Screenplay
1967
1965
1964
The Money Dance · as Screenplay
1960
Son · as Screenplay
1959
The Key · as Screenplay
1959
1958
1957
1957
The Crowded Streetcar · as Screenplay
1953
1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata · as Screenplay
1953
1952
This Way, That Way · as Screenplay
1951
1951
1951
1951
Ieraishan · as Screenplay
1950
Heat and Mud · as Screenplay

1987
1984
Ohan · as Executive Producer
1983
The Makioka Sisters · as Executive Producer
1977
The Devil's Island · as Executive Producer
1977
Akuma no temari-uta · as Executive Producer
1970
Dodes'ka-den · as Executive Producer
1967
1962

2009
The 81st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute
2006
1971
Great Performances (TV Series) · as Self

2008
The Magic Hour · as Film Director
1973
Visions of Eight · as Narrator

1984
Ohan · as Composer
1983
The Makioka Sisters · as Composer
1973
The Wanderers · as Composer

1986
1975
I Am a Cat · as Adaptation
1973
The Wanderers · as Producer's Assistant
1963
An Actor's Revenge · as Developed By
1959
1938
Flowers Have Fallen · as Assistant Director

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