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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, [1] and the ...
Kon Ichikawa (1915-2008) was a Japanese director, writer and producer who made films in various genres and styles. He was influenced by Disney, Renoir and Tanizaki, and won two BAFTA Awards and many other honors.
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Kon Ichikawa. Director: The Inugami Family. Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse.
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Feb 14, 2008 · Kon Ichikawa, the Japanese film director whose versatility ranged beyond his well-known antiwar dramas like “The Burmese Harp” and “Fires on the Plain” to comedies, documentaries and literary...
Jul 22, 2021 · Kon Ichikawa, director of the 1964 Olympics film Tokyo Olympiad, had been a key figure of Japan's "Golden Age" of cinema in the 1950s, and had been recognised at the Cannes and...
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Jul 13, 2021 · Kon Ichikawa was a renowned Japanese director who made Tokyo Olympiad (1965), a film that celebrated the human side of the athletes and the spectators. He used a variety of techniques to showcase the events with an abstract grandeur, without being overtly patriotic or political.
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A spectacle of magnificent proportions and remarkable intimacy, Kon Ichikawa’s Tokyo Olympiad remains one of the greatest films ever made about sports.
