Kon Ichikawa is dead.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

92 years old. RIP

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080213p2a00m0na043000c.html

[Boner M]

I'll have to finally watch An Actor's Revenge soon to commemorate.

RIP.

[Kurious Jorge v3.1]

Within the last year I saw a cluster of his films including An Actor's Revenge, Odd Obsession, Burmese Harp, and Enjo. Really a great director (who started in animation a la Frank Tashlin).

Burmese Harp really blew me away. At least we still have Kaneto Shindo, still making films at 95 years old!

[dreamdead]

No one can say he didn't live a full life. I was just getting into his features as Criterion released them. Love both Fires on the Plain and The Burmese Harp; hopefully, this will bring Ichikawa greater renown, more retrospectives, and more releases of his other work.

[D_Davis]

I've always wanted to see Fires on the Plain, the book is brilliant.

[megladon8]

This year has been really bad so far for deaths.

RIP

[Wryan]

Never heard of him (sorry) but hey 92 years is fuckin pimp.

[origami_mustache]

Haven't seen any of his films, but have had them in queue for a while.