Name: Kon Ichikawa
Birthday: 20 November 1915
Deathday: 13 February 2008
Place of Birth: Mie, Japan
Known For: Directing
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 and Fires on the Plain, to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad, which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge.
