Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa

Directing
Born
November 20, 1915 in Mie, Japan
Died
February 13, 2008
Age
Died at age 92

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.

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