Kon Ichikawa

Japanese: 市川崑 - いちかわこん
Kon Ichikawa

Film director. Born November 20, 1915 in Ujiyamada City, Mie Prefecture (now Ise City). He moved to Osaka at a young age and dropped out of Ichioka Commercial High School due to illness. In 1933 (Showa 8), he joined JO Studio in Kyoto and worked on animation film production. In 1937, JO merged with PCL Film Productions and others to become Toho Film Co., Ltd. (now Toho Co., Ltd.), and became an assistant director for feature films. After the Toho disputes following World War II, he moved to Shintoho, and directed the company's first film, Toho's One Thousand and One Nights (1947), while still an assistant director. His next film, Hana Hiraku (1948), was his first film after being promoted to director. He also attracted attention for his modern and light-hearted directing sense in melodramas such as 365 Nights (Tokyo Edition/Osaka Edition) (1948). His talent was particularly evident in urban romantic comedies and satirical comedies such as The Woman Who Touched My Feet (1952) and Poo-san (1953). He also demonstrated his sharp sense of cinema in literary films such as The Burmese Harp (1956), Burning (1958), Fires on the Plain (1959), and Brother (1960). His documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965) had a unique perspective and unique images that had a major influence on subsequent sports documentaries. His serial film adaptations of Yokomizo Seishi's mystery novels, beginning with The Inugami Family (1976), were a huge commercial success. He is one of the great directors who led the rise of Japanese cinema after World War II. His other works include "Sasameyuki" (1983), "47 Ronin" (1994), and "Dora Heita" (2000). He was awarded the "Person of Cultural Merit" in 1994. He passed away on February 13, 2008, at the age of 92.

[Yukichi Shinada]

Documents List of Director's Works

Flower Blooms (1948)
365 Nights Tokyo/Osaka (1948)
Human Relations (1949)
Endless Passion (1949)
Ginza Sanshiro (1950)
Mud Pond (1950)
Chase at Dawn (1950)
Night Scent (1951)
The Lovers (1951)
Stateless Persons (1951)
Stolen Love (1951)
Bengawan Solo (1951)
Wedding March (1951)
Lucky-san (1952)
Young People (1952)
The Woman Who Touched My Feet (1952)
All sorts of tricks (1952)
Poussin (1953)
Blue Revolution (1953)
The Greatest Success: Zenigata Heiji (1953)
Lover (1953)
Everything About Me (1954)
The Millionaire (1954)
Twelve Chapters on Women (1954)
Ghost Stories of Youth (1955)
Kokoro (1955)
The Burmese Harp (1956)
The Execution Chamber (1956)
Nihonbashi (1956)
Crowded Train (1957)
Jinmu of Tohoku (1957)
Hole (1957)
Burning (1958)
You and I's Password: Goodbye, Today (1959)
The Key (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Women's Classics - Episode 2 "Women who sell things at high prices" [An omnibus with Yasuzo Masumura and Kozaburo Yoshimura] (1960)
Bonchi (1960)
Little Brother (1960)
Ten Black Women (1961)
Breaking the Commandments (1962)
I am Two Years Old (1962)
Yukinojo Transformation (1963)
Alone in the Pacific Ocean (1963)
The Tale of Perseverance: The Dance of Money (1964)
Tokyo Olympics (1965)
Toppo Gigio's Button War (1967)
Kyoto (1967)
Youth (1968)
Love Again (1971)
Travel (1973)
Stop Time, You are Beautiful, 17th of Munich - "Fastest" (1973)
I Am a Cat (1975)
Between Wife and Woman [co-directed with Toyoda Shiro] (1976)
The Inugami Family (1976)
The Devil's Ballad (1977)
Gokumon Island (1977)
Queen Bee (1978)
Firebird (1978)
The House of Hangings on Hospital Hill (1979)
Ancient Capital (1980)
Happiness (1981)
The Yangtze River (1981)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
Ohan (1984)
Burmese Harp (1985)
Kitten Story (1986)
Rokumeikan (1986)
Movie actress (1987)
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (1987)
Crane (1988)
The Legend of Tenkawa Murder Case (1991)
The Return of Kogarashi Monjiro (1993)
Through that Gate (1993)
47 Ronin (1994)
Village of Eight Graves (1996)
Shinsengumi (2000)
Doraheita (2000)
Mom (2001)
Ten Nights of Dreams, Night 2 (2006)
The Inugami Family (2006)

"Light and Lies, Truth and Shadow - Talking about the Works of Director Ichikawa Kon" by Wada Makoto and Mori Yuuki (2001, Kawade Shobo Shinsha)""Kinejun Mook Ichikawa Kon" (2008, Kinema Junposha)"The Ichikawa Kon Encyclopedia, edited by the Eiga Himitsu Editorial Department (2008, Yosensha)""Film Director Ichikawa Kon - A Film Journey Around Kon" by Tsuchiya Yoshio (2009, Kindai Eigasha)"

[References] | Brother | The Makioka Sisters | Tokyo Olympics | Toho Co., Ltd. | Japanese film

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

映画監督。大正4年11月20日、三重県宇治山田市(現、伊勢市)生まれ。幼いときに大阪に移り、市岡(いちおか)商業を病気中退。1933年(昭和8)京都のJO(ぜーおー)スタジオに入社し、アニメーション映画製作に従事する。1937年JOがPCL映画製作所等と合併して東宝映画株式会社(現、東宝株式会社)となったのを機会に、劇映画の助監督になる。第二次世界大戦後の東宝争議で新東宝に移り、同社の第一作『東宝千一夜』(1947)を助監督の身分のまま初監督。続く『花ひらく』(1948)が監督昇進第一作となった。また『三百六十五夜(東京篇・大阪篇)』(1948)などのメロドラマでモダンかつ軽妙な演出感覚を発揮して注目された。その才能はとくに『足にさわった女』(1952)、『プーサン』(1953)など、都会恋愛喜劇、風刺喜劇で目覚ましい成功をみせた。さらに『ビルマの竪琴(たてごと)』(1956)、『炎上』(1958)、『野火』(1959)、『おとうと』(1960)などで、文芸映画の分野で鋭い映像感覚を発揮した。また記録映画『東京オリンピック』(1965)では独自の視点とユニークな映像で、その後のスポーツ記録映画に大きな影響を与えた。『犬神家の一族』(1976)に始まる横溝正史(よこみぞせいし)の推理小説の連続映画化では大きな商業的成功を収めた。第二次世界大戦後の日本映画の隆盛を担った名監督の一人である。ほかに『細雪(ささめゆき)』(1983)、『四十七人の刺客』(1994)、『どら平太』(2000)などがある。1994年(平成6)文化功労者。平成20年2月13日に満92歳で死去。

[品田雄吉]

資料 監督作品一覧

花ひらく(1948)
三百六十五夜 東京篇・大阪篇(1948)
人間模様(1949)
果てしなき情熱(1949)
銀座三四郎(1950)
熱泥池(1950)
暁の追跡(1950)
夜来香(1951)
恋人(1951)
無国籍者(1951)
盗まれた恋(1951)
ブンガワンソロ(1951)
結婚行進曲(1951)
ラッキーさん(1952)
若い人(1952)
足にさわった女(1952)
あの手この手(1952)
プーサン(1953)
青色革命(1953)
天晴れ一番手柄 青春銭形平次(1953)
愛人(1953)
わたしの凡(すべ)てを(1954)
億万長者(1954)
女性に関する十二章(1954)
青春怪談(1955)
こころ(1955)
ビルマの竪琴(1956)
処刑の部屋(1956)
日本橋(1956)
満員電車(1957)
東北の神武たち(1957)
穴(1957)
炎上(1958)
あなたと私の合言葉 さようなら、今日は(1959)
鍵(1959)
野火(1959)
女経~第二話「物を高く売りつける女」[増村保造、吉村公三郎とのオムニバス](1960)
ぼんち(1960)
おとうと(1960)
黒い十人の女(1961)
破戒(1962)
私は二歳(1962)
雪之丞変化(1963)
太平洋ひとりぼっち(1963)
ど根性物語 銭の踊り(1964)
東京オリンピック(1965)
トッポ・ジージョのボタン戦争(1967)
京(1967)
青春(1968)
愛ふたたび(1971)
股旅(1973)
時よとまれ 君は美しい ミュンヘンの17日~「最も速く」(1973)
吾輩は猫である(1975)
妻と女の間[豊田四郎との共同監督](1976)
犬神家の一族(1976)
悪魔の手毬唄(1977)
獄門島(1977)
女王蜂(1978)
火の鳥(1978)
病院坂の首縊(くく)りの家(1979)
古都(1980)
幸福(1981)
長江(1981)
細雪(1983)
おはん(1984)
ビルマの竪琴(1985)
子猫物語(1986)
鹿鳴館(1986)
映画女優(1987)
竹取物語(1987)
つる 鶴(1988)
天河伝説殺人事件(1991)
帰って来た木枯し紋次郎(1993)
その木戸を通って(1993)
四十七人の刺客(1994)
八つ墓村(1996)
新撰組(2000)
どら平太(2000)
かあちゃん(2001)
ユメ十夜 第二夜(2006)
犬神家の一族(2006)

『和田誠・森遊机著『光と嘘、真実と影――市川崑監督作品を語る』(2001・河出書房新社)』『『キネ旬ムック 市川崑』(2008・キネマ旬報社)』『映画秘宝編集部編『市川崑大全』(2008・洋泉社)』『土屋好生著『映画監督市川崑――崑さんをめぐる映画の旅』(2009・近代映画社)』

[参照項目] | おとうと | 細雪 | 東京オリンピック | 東宝(株) | 日本映画

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