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Kon Ichikawa

1915–2008 · Japanese film director and screenwriter

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 (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.

Kon Ichikawa, in order

  1. 1947 A Thousand and One Nights with Toho: directed
  2. 1949 Passion Without End: directed
  3. 1950 Akatsuki no tsuiseki: directed
  4. 1950 Ginza Sanshiro: directed
  5. 1951 Koibito: directed
  6. 1951 River Solo Flows: directed
  7. 1951 Wedding March: directed
  8. 1952 This Way, That Way: directed
  9. 1953 Youth of Heiji Senigata: directed
  10. 1954 A Billionaire: directed
  11. 1954 All Of Myself: directed, wrote
  12. 1955 The Heart: directed
  13. 1956 Punishment Room: directed
  14. 1956 The Burmese Harp: directed
  15. 1957 Ohan: directed, wrote
  16. 1957 The Hole: directed, wrote
  17. 1958 Enjō: directed, wrote
  18. 1959 Fires on the Plain: directed
  19. 1959 Odd Obsession: directed, wrote
  20. 1960 Bonchi: directed, wrote
  21. 1960 Her Brother: directed
  22. 1960 Jokyo: directed
  23. 1961 Ten Dark Women: directed
  24. 1962 Being Two Isn't Easy: directed
  25. 1962 The Outcast: directed
  26. 1963 Alone Across the Pacific: directed
  27. 1963 An Actor's Revenge: directed
  28. 1964 The Money Dance: directed
  29. 1965 Tokyo Olympiad: directed
  30. 1967 Topo Gigio and the Missile War: directed, wrote
  31. 1968 Seishun: directed
  32. 1971 To Love Again: directed
  33. 1972 Kogarashi Monjirō (TV series): directed
  34. 1973 The Wanderers: directed, wrote
  35. 1973 Visions of Eight: directed · critics 58%, audiences 60%
  36. 1975 I Am A Cat: directed
  37. 1976 The Inugamis: directed, wrote
  38. 1977 Akuma no temari-uta: directed, produced
  39. 1977 The Devil's Island: directed, wrote, produced
  40. 1978 Phoenix: directed
  41. 1978 Rhyme of Vengeance: directed, wrote
  42. 1979 Galaxy Express 999: wrote · directed by Rintaro
  43. 1979 The House of Hanging: directed, wrote, produced
  44. 1980 Koto: directed, wrote
  45. 1981 Lonely Heart: directed, wrote
  46. 1983 The Makioka Sisters: directed, wrote, produced
  47. 1985 The Burmese Harp: directed
  48. 1987 Actress: directed
  49. 1987 Princess from the Moon: directed, wrote · audiences 73% · streaming on Criterion Channel
  50. 1988 Crane: directed, wrote
  51. 1991 Noh Mask Murders: directed
  52. 1993 Kaettekita Kogarashi Monjirō: directed, wrote
  53. 1994 47 Ronin: directed, wrote
  54. 1996 The 8-Tomb Village: directed
  55. 2000 Shinsengumi: directed
  56. 2001 I Went To: directed, wrote
  57. 2001 Kah-chan: directed
  58. 2006 Ten Nights of Dreams: directed
  59. 2006 The Inugamis: directed, wrote
  60. 2006 The Kon Ichikawa Story: acted · directed by Shunji Iwai