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Kon Ichikawa
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Director, Screenwriter Born: November 20, 1915 in Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan Death: February 13, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan Biography:"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 exacting perfectionist and master of the widescreen format. Yet unlike Kurosawa, Ichikawa imbued his films with a sense of irony that swings from the sardonic to the compassionate.
Born in 1915 in southern Mie Prefecture, Ichikawa grew up a sickly child and spent much of his childhood drawing. Like Kurosawa, he aspired to be a painter. He also grew to be an enthusiastic movie fan, seeing most of the early samurai epics by "Daisuke Ito" and "Masahiro Makino" while marveling at "Charles Chaplin" films. Yet it was "Walt Disney"'s "Silly Symphonies" series that proved to be a revelation for Ichikawa, as he... Full Biography
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