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Kon Ichikawa, 1915-2008
Ichikawa came to prominence with some stunning anti-war films, written with Wada Natto, whom he married - Burmese Harp (he made this in 1956 and again, from the same script, in 1985) and Fires on the Plain are particularly superb. It should also be emphasised that he was a maker of genuinely popular films - his 1976 The Inugama Family was the highest-grossing film in Japan ever. My favourite film of his: