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

Kogarashi Monjiro
1972
Dodes'ka-den
1970
The Life of Bangaku
2002
47 Ronin
1994
Galaxy Express 999: The Movie
1979
The Makioka Sisters
1983
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
1986
Conflagration
1958
Odd Obsession
1959
The Inugami Family
1976
The Woman Who Touched Legs
1960
Kurosawa
2000

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
5
Directing
98
Writing
54
Producing
10
Editing
1
Visual Effects
1
Crew
1
2008
The Magic Hour
as Film Director
2006
The Kon Ichikawa Story
as Himself
2000
Kurosawa
as Self
1999
Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema
as Interviewee
1973
Visions of Eight
as Narrator