Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as 'Walt Disney' , with whom he produced most of his finest films.
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.
Out of all his own films, he likes Enjo the best.
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.
Keisuke Kinoshita, Kurosawa Akira, Ichikawa Kon and Kobayashi Masaki formed 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.
I just make any picture I like or any that the company tells me to do.
