Kon Ichikawa (1915 - 2008)

Born:
November 20, 1915 in Mie, Japan

Died:
February 13, 2008(age 92)

About:
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.