Kon Ichikawa
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Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑 Ichikawa Kon) (born November 20, 1915, Mie Prefecture, Japan) is one of the better known Japanese film directors.
He gained his western credibility in the 1950s and 1960s with a number of bleak films - two antiwar films with The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, Conflagration in which a priest burns down his temple to save it from spiritual pollution, Alone in the Pacific and the technically formidable An Actor's Revenge about a Kabuki actor.
Many of his films are literary adaptations, works including Tanizaki Junichiro's The Key (1959) and The Makioka Sisters (1983), Natsume Soseki's Kokoro (1955) and I Am a Cat (1965), and Yukio Mishima's The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (as Enjo (1958)).
His films were often screen-written by his wife, Natto Wada, and when she ceased this activity at the end of the 1960s it marked a change in his films.
It can be said that his main trait is technical expertise, irony, detachment and a drive for realism married with a complete spectrum of genres. Some critics class him with Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujiro Ozu as one of the masters of Japanese cinema.
Filmography
- Hana Hiraku (1948)
- Sanbyaku Rokujugo-ya (1948)
- Ningen Moyo (1949)
- Hateshinaki Jonetsu (1949)
- Ginza Sanshiro (1950),
- Akatsuki no Tsuiseki (1950),
- Ye-Rai-Shang (1951),
- Koibito (1951),
- Mukokuseki-Mono (1951),
- Nusumareta Koi (1951),
- Bungawan Solo (1951),
- Kekkon Koshin-kyoku (1951),
- Lucky San (1952),
- Wakai Hito (1952),
- Ashi ni Sawatta Onna (1952),
- Ano te Kono te (1952),
- Pusan (1953),
- Aoiro Kakumei (1953),
- Seishun Zenigata Heiji (1953),
- Aijin (1953),
- Watashi no Subete O (1954),
- A Billionaire (1954),
- Seishun Kaidan (1955),
- The Heart (1955),
- The Burmese Harp (1956),
- Punishment Room (1956),
- Nihonbashi (1956),
- Manin Densha (1957),
- The Men of Tohoku (1957),
- Conflagration (1958),
- Sayonara Konnichiwa (1959),
- The Key (1959),
- Fires on the Plain (1959),
- Keisatsukan to Boroyuku-dan (1959),
- Ginza no Mosa (1960),
- Bonchi (1960),
- Jokyo (1960),
- Her Brother (1960),
- Kuroi Junin no Onna (1961),
- The Sin (1962),
- Being Two Isn't Easy (1962),
- An Actor's Revenge (1963),
- Alone in the Pacific (1963),
- Dokonji Monogatari (1964),
- Tokyo Olympiad (documentary) (1965),
- Top Gigio e i sei Ladri (1968),
- Tournament (1968),
- Ai Futatabi (1971),
- The Wanderers (1973),
- Wagahai wa Neko Dearu (1975),
- Akuma no Temari-uta (1977),
- Inugamike no Ichizoku (1977),
- Gokumon-to (1978),
- Hi no Tori (1978),
- Joh-on Bachi (1978),
- Hi no Tori (1980),
- Kofuku (1982),
- Sasame Yuki (1983),
- Biruma no Tategoto (1983),
- Ohan (1983),
- Rokumeikan (1986),
- Eiga Joyu (1987),
- Taketori Mongatari (1987),
- Tsuru (1988),
- Tenkawa densetsu satsujin jiken (1991),
- Fusa (1993),
- Shijushichinin no shikaku (1994),
- Yatsuhaka-mura (1996),
- Dora-heita (1999)
External links
- Ichikawa Kon's IMDb Listing (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406728/)
- Ichikawa Kon's JMDb Listing (http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0154990.htm) (in Japanese)ja:市川崑
