Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa
市川 崑
Ichikawa in the 1950s
Born	Giichi Ichikawa (1915-11-20)20 November 1915 Ise, Mie, Empire of Japan
Died	13 February 2008(2008-02-13) (aged 92) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1936–2008
Notable work	The Burmese Harp (1956) Odd Obsession (1959) Fires on the Plain (1959) An Actor's Revenge (1963) Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
Spouse	Natto Wada ​ ​ (m. 1948; died 1983)​

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 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

At his death in 2008, The New York Times recalled that "The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, called him in 2001 “the last living link between the golden age of Japanese cinema, the spunky New Wave that followed and contemporary Japanese film.”"^[3]