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Kon Ichikawa

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Kon Ichikawa - filmography

- our price: £15.43
Princess From The Moon on DVD (1987)
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuko Sawaguchi
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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When a mysterious light appears in the sky a poor couple investigate and find a small pod near the grave of their daughter. The pod breaks open to reveal a small baby who looks very much like their daughter. They decide to adopt her and she grows up to be a young lady of exceptional beauty who is ..read more »

Rate this: 45% from 153 members

- our price: £14.93
An Actor's Revenge on DVD (1962)
Starring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Perhaps director Kon Ichikawa's most stylistically inventive film, AN ACTOR'S REVENGE was adapted from a newspaper serial written by Otokichi Mikami and stars Kazuo Hasegawa as Yukinojo Nakamura, a celebrated "oyama," or female impersonator, working with the Ichimura kabuki troupe in 1836 Edo. ..read more »

Rate this: 70% from 152 members

The Burmese Harp (1956)
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Shoji Yasui, Jun Hamamura
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Kon Ichikawa's antiwar classic depicts the aftermath of the Burmese campaign of World War II and centers on a soldier who, after a series of horrifying experiences, comes to realize that his vocation is to bury the unknown dead.

Rate this: 70% from 5 members

Ten Nights of Dreams
Starring: Kyoko Koizumi, Suzuki Matsuo, Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Director: Yoshitaka Amano, Kon Ichikawa
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Legendary Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume opens this film by admitting that the book "Ten Nights of Dreams" is meant to be a mystery, one which might not be solved for a hundred years. He says this in 1906, and the maid he's addressing comments that she'd have to reincarnate to see that. A hundred ..read more »

Rate this: 40% from 2 members

Kon Ichikawa facts

5 most recent films

Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars
The Burmese Harp - 3.5 stars
Ten Nights of Dreams - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars
Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
The Burmese Harp - 3.5 stars
Ten Nights of Dreams - 2.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ten Nights of Dreams - 2.0 stars
The Burmese Harp - 3.5 stars
Princess From The Moon - 2.5 stars
An Actor's Revenge - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ayako Wakao - 2 times - show films
Jun Hamamura - 1 times - show films
Sadao Abe - 1 times - show films
Yu Kashii - 1 times - show films
Suzuki Matsuo - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Yoshitaka Amano - 1 times - show films