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Kon Ichikawa

Highest Rated:
100% Fires of the Plain (Nobi) (1959)
Lowest Rated:
67% Kagi (Odd Obsession) (The Key) (1959)
Birthday:
Nov 20, 1915
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
Kon Ichikawa was considered one of the masters of the immediate postwar generation of Japanese filmmakers -- a generation often overshadowed by the titanic presence of Akira Kurosawa. Like Kurosawa, Ichikawa frequently took secondary sources and made them his own. Also like Kurosawa, he was an…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 67% - 100%
Number of Movies: 34
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 Harp of Burma
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2010 Otôto (About Her Brother) (Younger Brother)
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2006 Inugamike no ichizoku
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2006 The Kon Ichikawa Story
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2006 80% Ten Nights of Dreams (Yume jû-ya)
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2001 Kurosawa
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2000 Dora-Heita (Alley Cat) (Playboy)
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1994 47 Ronin
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1994 Kon Ichikawa's 47 Ronin
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1987 Actress (Eiga joyu)
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1987 Taketori monogatari (Princess from the Moon)
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1983 100% Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters)
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1979 88% The Wanderers
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1978 Hi no tori (Firebird: Daybreak Chapter)(The Phoenix)
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1975 I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru)
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1973 Visions of 8 - The Olympics of Motion Picture Achievement
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1966 100% Tôkyô orimpikku (Tokyo Olympiad)
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1965 Family
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1963 Alone Across the Pacific
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1963 Alone on the Pacific (Taiheiyo hitori-botchi)
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1963 89% Yukinojo Henge (An Actor's Revenge)
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1962 The Outcast
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1962 Being Two Isn't Easy
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1960 Jokyo (A Woman's Testament)
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1960 Otouto
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1959 100% Fires of the Plain (Nobi)
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1959 67% Kagi (Odd Obsession) (The Key)
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1958 Enjo
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1958 Conflagration
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1957 Manin densha (A Full-Up Train)(The Crowded Streetcar)(The Crowded Train)
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1956 91% Biruma no Tategoto (The Burmese Harp)
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1955 Kokoro
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1955 The Heart
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1952 The Woman Who Touched Legs (Ashi Ni Sawatta Onna)
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