Kon Ichikawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)

Kon Ichikawa

Japanese film director and screenwriter (1915–2008)

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 (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the…