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.

Known For

The Magic Hour

as Film Director

Visions of Eight

as Narrator

The Kon Ichikawa Story

as Himself

Kurosawa

as Self

Kon Ichikawa: My Life in Cinema

as Interviewee