Kon Ichikawa

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.

Directed

1. The Burmese Harp (1956) — Director
2. Fires on the Plain (1959) — Director
3. An Actor's Revenge (1963) — Director
4. Tokyo Olympiad (1965) — Director
5. The Makioka Sisters (1983) — Director
6. The Inugami Family (1976) — Director
7. Odd Obsession (1959) — Director
8. Conflagration (1958) — Director
9. Princess from the Moon (1987) — Director
10. 47 Ronin (1994) — Director
11. Visions of Eight (1973) — Director
12. Murder of the Inugami Clan (2006) — Director
13. Her Brother (1960) — Director
14. The Wanderers (1973) — Director
15. Being Two Isn't Easy (1962) — Director
16. Lullaby to Kill (1977) — Director
17. Ten Nights of Dreams (2007) — Director
18. The Heart (1955) — Director
19. Alone Across the Pacific (1963) — Director
20. Ten Dark Women (1961) — Director
21. Dora-heita (2000) — Director
22. The Broken Commandment (1962) — Director
23. The Phoenix (1978) — Director
24. Queen Bee (1978) — Director
25. The Burmese Harp (1985) — Director
26. A Woman's Testament (1960) — Director
27. Punishment Room (1956) — Director
28. Fusa (1995) — Director
29. Noh Mask Murders (1991) — Director
30. Koibito (1951) — Director
31. I Am a Cat (1975) — Director
32. The Crowded Train (1957) — Director
33. Topo Gigio and the Missile War (1967) — Director
34. Island of Hell (1977) — Director
35. A Billionaire (1954) — Director
36. The House of Hanging (1979) — Director
37. The 8-Tomb Village (1996) — Director
38. Actress (1987) — Director
39. Bridge of Japan (1956) — Director
40. A Girl At Dojo Temple (1946) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Magic Hour (2008) — Film Director
2. Visions of Eight (1973) — Narrator
3. The Kon Ichikawa Story (2006) — Himself
4. Kurosawa (2000) — Self
5. Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema (1999) — Interviewee