Kon Ichikawa

Kon Ichikawa was born on 20 November 1915 in Ise, in Mie Prefecture. He joined the animation department of the J.O. studio in 1933 and moved with it to Tōhō as an assistant director. In 1948 he married the translator Wada Natto, who was his main screenwriter until the middle of the sixties. He made a major documentary on the Tokyo Games, worked until 2006 and died in Tokyo on 13 February 2008.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaFires on the Plain野火Kon Ichikawa · 1959Cinema