FILM DIRECTOR

Kon Ichikawa

1915 - 2008

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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, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kon Ichikawa has received more than 276,470 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Kon Ichikawa is the 410th most popular film director (up from 428th in 2019), the 629th most popular biography from Japan (up from 643rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kon Ichikawa ranks 410 out of 2,041. Before him are Alberto Lattuada, Kaneto Shindo, Christian-Jaque, John Guillermin, André Téchiné, and Jean-Jacques Beineix. After him are Walter Ruttmann, Giuliano Montaldo, Michel Gondry, Sergiu Nicolaescu, M. Night Shyamalan, and J. J. Abrams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kon Ichikawa ranks 80. Before him are Hanns Martin Schleyer, Kiyosi Itô, Thomas Merton, Arsenio Erico, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Alicia Rhett. After him are Liisi Oterma, C. W. Ceram, Nguyễn Văn Linh, Ibolya Csák, Lorne Greene, and Jo Van Fleet. Among people deceased in 2008, Kon Ichikawa ranks 90. Before him are Cyd Charisse, Joseph M. Juran, Tommy Lapid, Henri Salvador, Manuel Marulanda, and Nouhak Phoumsavanh. After him are Dan Shomron, Boris Shakhlin, Paul Scofield, Jean Delannoy, Paul Frère, and Claude Piron.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kon Ichikawa ranks 629 out of 6,245. Before him are Senjūrō Hayashi (1876), Yuriko Koike (1952), Keigo Higashino (1958), Kyōka Izumi (1873), Nobuyuki Kato (1920), and Tadao Takayama (1904). After him are Koji Miyata (1923), Chiang Wei-kuo (1916), Giant Baba (1938), Monkey Punch (1937), Masashi Kishimoto (1974), and Takashi Mizuno (1931).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kon Ichikawa ranks 20. Before him are Mamoru Oshii (1951), Satoshi Kon (1963), Mikio Naruse (1905), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ishirō Honda (1911), and Kaneto Shindo (1912). After him are Takashi Miike (1960), Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), and Seijun Suzuki (1923).

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Filmography

The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Director
When Milo the cat and Otis the dog are separated, they each set off on an adventurous and often perilous quest across mountains, plains, and snow-covered lands to reunite with one another.
Jun 27o 19866.5 / 10
The Burmese Harp
Director
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Jan 21o 19567.9 / 10
Fires on the Plain
Director
In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Nov 3o 19597.6 / 10