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Kon Ichikawa
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Out of all his own films, he likes Enjo the best.
Keisuke Kinoshita
,
Akira Kurosawa
,
Kon Ichikawa
and
Masaki Kobayashi
founded their own company, Yonki No Kai ('Club of The Four Knights'), in 1969 to assert an independent film making process and escape the studio system. They managed to produce only one movie, Kurosawa's
Dodes'ka-den (1970)
.
Education: Ichioka Commercial School, Osaka (animation)
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 442-451. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
Masumura Yasuzo apprenticed under him and consequently remade The Girl Who Touched His Legs in 1960.
He apprenticed under Abe Yutaka and consequently remade The Girl Who Touched His Legs in 1950.
He married Wada Natto who became his scenarist until her death in 1983.
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