Ichiro Ichikawa (市川 一朗, Ichikawa Ichirō, born April 12, 1937) is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Uguisuzawa, Miyagi and graduate of the University of Tokyo, he worked at the Ministry of Construction from 1961 to 1994. He was elected for the first time in 1995.
Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp (1956) and Fires on the Plain (1959), to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965), which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge (1963). His film Odd Obsession (1959) won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Uguisuzawa was a town located in Kurihara District, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
Ichirō, also written Ichiro, Ichirou or Ichiroh is a masculine Japanese given name. The name is occasionally given to the first-born son in a family.
Ichikawa Raizō VIII was a Japanese film and kabuki actor. His birth name was Akio Kamezaki, and his name was legally changed several times, first to Yoshio Takeuchi, and later to Yoshiya Ōta, separate from his performing name.
Jun Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He was first a director of television commercials before adding filmmaking to his creative activities. His most famous film outside Japan is Tony Takitani, an adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage after suddenly collapsing at a restaurant, shortly before his latest film, Buy a Suit, was to premier at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Mikako Ichikawa is a Japanese actress and model from Tokyo, Japan. Her older sister is the actress and model Miwako Ichikawa.
Ichikawa Danjūrō XII was a Japanese actor. He was the twelfth kabuki actor to hold the illustrious name Ichikawa Danjūrō.
Ichikawa Fusae was a Japanese feminist, politician and a leader of the women's suffrage movement. Ichikawa was a key supporter of women's suffrage in Japan, and her activism was partially responsible for the extension of the franchise to women in 1945.
The Kon Ichikawa Story, also known as A Filmful Life, is a 2006 documentary directed by Japanese director Shunji Iwai about the life of iconic and prolific Japanese director Kon Ichikawa. The documentary also devotes time to Natto Wada, Ichikawa's wife, who wrote many of his screenplays.
Ichikawa Danjūrō XIII is a Japanese Kabuki, film, television actor and stage producer. He is the eldest son and successor of the celebrated Ichikawa Danjūrō XII. He is known for being a renowned tachiyaku, in particular he specializes in aragoto roles.
Ichikawashiohama Station is a passenger railway station in the city of Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
The Japanese Film Festival (JFF) is a film festival held in Singapore and dedicated to Japanese cinema. It was first held in 1983 and then held annually from 1999 to 2016, and curated with Singapore audiences in mind, led by local programmers with a wide-ranging programme of film classics, Japanese independents and commercial releases. There was no festival in 2017. Under new direction from 2018 from the Japan Foundation in Tokyo, it has shifted its focus to screening mainly commercial releases from Japan.
Yuki Ichikawa is a Japanese football player, who is last played for S.League club Geylang International FC.
Ichikawa is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ichirō Satsuki was a Japanese rōkyoku singer. He died at the age of 95.
Saya Ichikawa is a Japanese-American model, tarento, and newscaster. Her original stage name was Saya until 2011. Her father is an American with Cherokee heritage and her mother is Japanese.
Lady Ichikawa was a Japanese female warrior (Onna-musha) from the Sengoku period who helped drive out Ouchi and the Otomo clan from Chugoku. She was the wife of Ichikawa Tsuneyoshi, a samurai warlord and retainer of Mōri Motonari. She defended Konomine castle from the attack by Ōuchi.
Akinori Ichikawa is a Japanese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for J2 League club Yokohama FC.
Ichiro Otsuka is a Japanese former footballer and current manager.