The Kon Ichikawa Story

Screening Schedule

Nov 11 (Fri.) 22:00 at Hacchoza

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Details

Story of Kon Ichikawa was created to celebrate a big project: Kon Ichikawa’ s latest film, Murder of the Inugami Clan (showing from December 16th). Shunji Iwai, who took the lead as director for the first time since Hana to Arisu (2004), has in fact been greatly influenced by Kon Ichikawa. This work is a story tracing Kon Ichikawa from his childhood, through the Pacific war, and to the present. Kon’ s little known period as an animator is also told using rare visuals of the time.

Director : Shunji Iwai
Writer : Shunji Iwai
Editor : Shunji Iwai
Sound : Tetsuya Ohno
Music : Shunji Iwai
Producer : Ichise Takashige
Produced by : Rockwell Eyes Inc., KADOKAWA HERALD PICTURES.INC., Oz
Supervision : Yuki Mori

Year of production: 2006
Running time: 82'
Country: Japan
Language : Japanese

Director

Shunji Iwai
Born in 1963, Shunji Iwai’s directing career began in 1988 with commercials, music videos and TV dramas, soon earning him acclaim for his cinematic style and vision, which came to be known as the “Iwai Aesthetic.” In 1995, he scored a huge hit across Asia with Love Letter and in 1996,PiCNiC won him a second consecutive award in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival, bringing him to even greater international attention. Swallowtail Butterfly (96) blazed a new trail in movie and music collaboration, and All About Lily Chou-Chou (01) won awards at Berlin and Shanghai. Other major works include Hana and Alice (04), a segment in the omnibus film New York, I Love You (09) and his first English-language film, Vampire (12), which played in competition at Sundance and in the Berlin Panorama section. Iwai’s first feature-length animated film, The Case of Hana & Alice, was invited to the 2015 Annecy Animation Festival. His latest film, A Bride for Rip Van Winkle (16), was released in Hong Kong and Taiwan prior to domestic release in Japan.