Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑) (born November 20, 1915, Mie Prefecture, Japan)one ofbetter known Japanese film directorsone ofmost unpredictable.

He gained his western credibility in1950s1960s withnumberbleak films - two antiwar filmsThe Burmese HarpFires onPlain, Conflagrationwhichpriest burns down his templesavefrom spiritual pollution, Alone inPacific andtechnically formidable An Actor's Revenge aboutKabuki actor. Mostthese filmsliterary adaptations, often screen-written by his wife, Natto Wada, when she ceased this activity atend of1960smarkedchangehis films.

It can be said that his main traittechnical expertise, irony, detachment anddriverealism married withcomplete spectrumgenres. Some critics class himAkira Kurosawa, Kenji MizoguchiYasujiro Ozu as one ofmastersJapanese 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 MenTohoku (1957),
• Conflagration (1958),
• Sayonara Konnichiwa (1959),
• The Key (1959),
• Fires onPlain (1959),
• KeisatsukanBoroyuku-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 inPacific (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)