Kon Ichikawa
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Japanese film director and screenwriter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, 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 . His film Odd Obsession won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.