Japanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008)
Kon Ichikawa
Ichikawa in the 1950s
Born
Giichi Ichikawa
20 November 1915
Ise, Mie, Empire of Japan
Died
13 February 2008(2008-02-13) (aged 92)
Tokyo, Japan
Nationality
Japanese
Occupation(s)
Film director, screenwriter
Years active
1936–2008
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,[1] 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.[2]
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.”"[3]
^"Film in 1966 | BAFTA Awards". awards.bafta.org. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
^"KAGI". Festival de Cannes. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
^"Kon Ichikawa, Japanese Film Director, Dies at 92 (Published 2008)". 14 February 2008. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
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