FILM DIRECTOR

Kon Ichikawa

1915 - 2008

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Kon Ichikawa (市川 崑, Ichikawa Kon; 20 November 1915 – 13 February 2008) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kon Ichikawa is the 439th most popular film director (down from 410th in 2019), the 733rd most popular biography from Japan (down from 629th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Kon Ichikawa ranks 439 out of 2,041. Before him are Walter Lantz, Andrew V. McLaglen, Assi Dayan, Michael Radford, Yves Boisset, and Guy Hamilton. After him are Jacques Tourneur, Wolfgang Reitherman, Alf Sjöberg, Russ Meyer, Alberto Lattuada, and Václav Vorlíček.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kon Ichikawa ranks 93. Before him are Branko Ćopić, Kiyosi Itô, Horst Sindermann, Thomas Merton, William Masters, and Arsenio Erico. After him are Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Wilhelm Gliese, Marais Viljoen, Evgeny Lifshitz, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Georgy Sviridov. Among people deceased in 2008, Kon Ichikawa ranks 97. Before him are Jean Delannoy, Eva Dahlbeck, Claude Piron, Dinko Šakić, Rubens de Falco, and Paul Frère. After him are Joseph Weizenbaum, Ann Savage, Edna Parker, Levy Mwanawasa, Alfred Pfaff, and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kon Ichikawa ranks 733 out of 6,245. Before him are Keizo Imai (1950), Takahashi Korekiyo (1854), Tanzan Ishibashi (1884), Nakano Takeko (1847), Choei Sato (1951), and Ogata Kōrin (1658). After him are Seichō Matsumoto (1909), Tatsuhiko Seta (1952), Shintaro Abe (1924), Satoshi Tajiri (1965), Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (1949), and Hantaro Nagaoka (1865).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Kon Ichikawa ranks 20. Before him are Makoto Shinkai (1973), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1955), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), Ishirō Honda (1911), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), and Mikio Naruse (1905). After him are Yoshiyuki Tomino (1941), Takashi Miike (1960), Hiroshi Teshigahara (1927), Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), and Osamu Dezaki (1943).

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