Kon Ichikawa has long been internationally ac-knowledged as one of
the most accomplished and prolific masters of Japanese cinema, in
the exalted company of Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and
Yasujiro Ozu. Celebrated for his many adaptations of famous
Japanese novels such as Fires on the Plain, Harp of Burma, Kagi,
Conflagration, and The ......
