Kon Ichikawa
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.
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Defining films
Films by decade
Enlightenment: A Second Night of Dreams
Ten Nights of Dreams
Murder of the Inugami Clan
Kah-chan
Dora-heita
Crane
Actress
Princess from the Moon
The Hall of the Crying Deer
The Burmese Harp
Ohan
The Makioka Sisters
Lonely Heart
Koto: The Ancient City
The House of Hanging
Queen Bee
The Phoenix
Island of Hell
Lullaby to Kill
Between Women and Wives
The Inugami Family
I Am a Cat
The Wanderers
Visions of Eight
To Love Again
Japan and the Japanese
Kyoto
Youth: The 50th National High School Baseball Tournament
Topo Gigio and the Missile War
The Tale of Genji
Tokyo Olympiad
The Money Dance
Alone Across the Pacific
An Actor's Revenge
Being Two Isn't Easy
The Broken Commandment
Ten Dark Women
A Woman's Testament
Bonchi
Her Brother
Fires on the Plain
Goodbye, Hello
Odd Obsession
Conflagration
Hole in One
The Crowded Train
The Men of Toho-ku
Bridge of Japan
Punishment Room
The Burmese Harp
Ghost Story of Youth
The Heart
12 Chapters About Women
A Billionaire
All of Myself
Mr. Pu
The Blue Revolution
The Lovers
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Forbidden Path
Mr. Lucky
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
This Way, That Way
Bengawan Solo
