Kon Ichikawa

from Mie, Japan

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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.

Timeline

2008Aged 93

  • Poster for The Magic Hour

    Film Director

2007Aged 92

  • Poster for Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams

    Director

  • Poster for Ten Nights of Dreams

    Director

2006Aged 91

  • Poster for The Kon Ichikawa Story

    Himself

  • Poster for Murder of the Inugami Clan

    Writer

2003Aged 88

  • Poster for Musume no kekkon

    Director

2002Aged 87

  • Poster for Ten Dark Women

    Director

2001Aged 86

  • Poster for Kah-chan

    Director

2000Aged 85

  • Poster for Kurosawa

    Self

  • Poster for Shinsengumi

    Writer

  • Poster for Dora-heita

    Screenplay

1999Aged 84

1996Aged 81

1995Aged 80

  • Poster for Fusa

    Writer

1994Aged 79

  • Poster for 47 Ronin

    Screenplay

1993Aged 78

  • Poster for Kogarashi Monjirō Returns

    Screenplay

1991Aged 76

  • Poster for Noh Mask Murders

    Screenplay

1990Aged 75

  • Poster for Battleship Yamato

    Screenplay

1988Aged 73

  • Poster for Crane

    Writer

1987Aged 72

  • Poster for Actress

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Princess from the Moon

    Writer

1986Aged 71

  • Poster for The Adventures of Milo and Otis

    Co-Director

  • Poster for The Hall of the Crying Deer

    Writer

1985Aged 70

  • Poster for The Burmese Harp

    Director

1984Aged 69

  • Poster for Ohan

    Executive Producer

1983Aged 68

  • Poster for The Makioka Sisters

    Executive Producer

1981Aged 66

  • Poster for Lonely Heart

    Screenplay

1980Aged 65

  • Poster for Koto: The Ancient City

    Writer

1979Aged 64

  • Poster for The House of Hanging

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Galaxy Express 999: The Movie

    Screenplay

1978Aged 63

  • Poster for Queen Bee

    Writer

  • Poster for The Phoenix

    Director

1977Aged 62

  • Poster for Lullaby to Kill

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Island of Hell

    Director

1976Aged 61

  • Poster for Between Women and Wives

    Director

  • Poster for The Inugami Family

    Screenplay

1975Aged 60

  • Poster for I Am a Cat

    Director

1973Aged 58

  • Poster for Visions of Eight

    Narrator

  • Poster for The Wanderers

    Screenplay

1971Aged 56

  • Poster for To Love Again

    Director

1970Aged 55

1969Aged 54

  • Poster for Kyoto

    Director

1968Aged 53

  • Poster for Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament

    Director

1967Aged 52

  • Poster for Topo Gigio and the Missile War

    Writer

1966Aged 51

  • Poster for The Tale of Genji

    Director

1965Aged 50

1964Aged 49

  • Poster for The Money Dance

    Screenplay

1963Aged 48

  • Poster for An Actor's Revenge

    Director

  • Poster for Alone Across the Pacific

    Director

1962Aged 47

  • Poster for The Broken Commandment

    Director

  • Poster for Being Two Isn't Easy

    Producer

1961Aged 46

  • Poster for Ten Women in Black

    Director

1960Aged 45

  • Poster for A Woman's Testament

    Director

  • Poster for Bonchi

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Woman Who Touched Legs

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Her Brother

    Director

1959Aged 44

  • Poster for Goodbye, Hello

    Story

  • Poster for Odd Obsession

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Fires on the Plain

    Director

1958Aged 43

  • Poster for Edo wa aozora

    Adaptation

  • Poster for Conflagration

    Screenplay

1957Aged 42

  • Poster for The Crowded Train

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Men of Toho-ku

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Hole in One

    Writer

1956Aged 41

  • Poster for The Burmese Harp

    Director

  • Poster for Punishment Room

    Director

  • Poster for Bridge of Japan

    Director

1955Aged 40

  • Poster for Ghost Story of Youth

    Director

  • Poster for The Heart

    Director

1954Aged 39

  • Poster for All of Myself

    Writer

  • Poster for A Billionaire

    Writer

  • Poster for 12 Chapters About Women

    Director

1953Aged 38

  • Poster for Mr. Pu

    Writer

  • Poster for The Blue Revolution

    Director

  • Poster for Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Lovers

    Writer

1952Aged 37

  • Poster for Mr. Lucky

    Director

  • Poster for Forbidden Path

    Screenplay

  • Poster for The Woman Who Touched the Legs

    Director

  • Poster for This Way, That Way

    Screenplay

1951Aged 36

  • Poster for Nightshade Flower

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Koibito

    Writer

  • Poster for The Man Without a Nationality

    Director

  • Poster for Stolen Love

    Writer

  • Poster for Bengawan Solo

    Writer

  • Poster for Wedding March

    Writer

1950Aged 35

  • Poster for Sanshiro of Ginza

    Director

  • Poster for Heat and Mud

    Screenplay

  • Poster for Pursuit At Dawn

    Story

1949Aged 34

  • Poster for Ningen moyo

    Director

  • Poster for Endless Passion

    Director

1948Aged 33

  • Poster for A Flower Blooms

    Director

  • Poster for 365 Nights

    Director

  • Poster for 365 Nights: Tokyo

    Director

  • Poster for 365 Nights: Osaka

    Director

1947Aged 32

  • Poster for A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

    Writer

1946Aged 31

  • Poster for A Girl At Dojo Temple

    Director

1943Aged 28

  • Poster for Hyoroku's Dream Tale

    Production Manager

  • Poster for World of Love

    Assistant Director

1940Aged 25

  • Poster for Enoken's Bow-Wow General

    Assistant Director

1939Aged 24

  • Poster for Old Songs

    Assistant Director

1938Aged 23

  • Poster for Fallen Blossoms

    Assistant Director

1936Aged 21

  • Poster for Shinsetsu Kachikachi Yama

    Writer

1935Aged 20

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