Kon Ichikawa Dead at 92

Acclaimed film maker Kon Ichikawa died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Wednesday at 1:55 AM He was 92. Ichikawa may be best known to Americans as the director of Oscar nominated films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959). Ichikawa also directed the 1978 Phoenix: Daybreak Chapter anime film and wrote the screenplay for the 1979 Galaxy Express 999 motion picture.

Source: Anime News Network