Kon Ichikawa
市川崑
media.language: Japanese
media.homeTown: Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan
media.yearsActive: 1936-2008
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A director mainly known for his live-action films.
Ichikawa's 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.
