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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 was a Japanese film director who made diverse and acclaimed films, from adaptations of literary classics to satire and thrillers. He collaborated with his wife Natto Wada and was a member of the Club of The Four Knights.
- November 20, 1915
- February 13, 2008
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...
- Moments Big and Small
- Winners and Losers
- Tokyo Olympiad Mark II
Other than an occasional caption or narration, there is minimal effort to inform the viewer who won what at the 1964 Tokyo Games. While some key events receive their due coverage — Ethiopian Abebe Bikila’s marathon victoryis given an epic treatment — others don’t get so much as a mention. Tokyo Olympiad isn’t a film of facts and statistics. Ichikaw...
The 1964 Tokyo Olympics embodied the optimism of Japan’s triumphant economic and social transformation in the two decades after the second world war. But there’s little flag-waving in Ichikawa’s film. The city is hardly shown. The Japanese team’s 16 gold medals (behind only the US and USSR) is underplayed. The Japanese authorities who commissioned ...
The celebrated Japanese director Naomi Kawase has been commissionedto make the official 2021 documentary. Her assignment may be the toughest yet. The optimism that surrounded the 1964 Games is in short supply. Most in Japan oppose the Olympics going ahead. Medical experts continue to warn of the dangers of pressing on. If Kawase points her cameras ...
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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Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who made diverse and acclaimed films in various genres and styles. He is known for his anti-war films, documentaries, historical dramas and comedies.
