Kon Ichikawa Dies.
Kon Ichikawa, director of The Burmese Harp, died yesterday of pneumonia at the age of 92. Ichikawa is recognized, along with Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, as one of the leading Post-World War II Japanese directors. I would love to voice more appreciation but I’m afraid that Ichikawa represents a chink in my movie going armor: I only know him by reputation, and have not seen any of his films.
For a better appreciation and a characteristically rewarding discussion, I implore you to check out Craig Kennedy’s Living in Cinema. The whole disguising a link in the middle of a passage of writing technique eludes me at the moment, but you can find Craig under my blog roll.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I strongly recommend ‘An actor’s revenge’, a beautifully stylized film
February 27th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Thanks shinji, for writing in and for the recommendation. I’ve added all of the available Ichikawa titles to my already intimidating Netflix queue. An Actor’s Revenge didn’t seem to be available with Netflix, but I will keep an eye out. A cursory look around on a few other sites seem to indicate that it is available on a hard to get DVD, perhaps a Criterion intervention in the near future? Hope to hear more from you!