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Kon Ichikawa, an Uncommon card
Kon Ichikawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 71
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 31,000
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Kon Ichikawa quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kon Ichikawa card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
His film Odd ______ won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Answer
Obsession. His film Odd Obsession won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. From the Kon Ichikawa article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sven Kramer. Sven Kramer 81 · Cornelius 75 · Kon Ichikawa 71 · Pieter Brueghel the Younger 67 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- His work displays a vast range in genre and style, from the anti-war films The Burmese Harp and Fires on the Plain, to the documentary Tokyo Olympiad, which won two BAFTA Film Awards, and the 19th-century revenge drama An Actor's Revenge.
- His film Odd Obsession won the Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
- At his death in 2008, The New York Times recalled that "The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper, called him in 2001 “the last living link between the golden age of Japanese cinema, the spunky New Wave that followed and contemporary Japanese film.”"
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kon Ichikawa article was read about 31,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 71 and blocks with 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Kon Ichikawa
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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The cards just above and just below Kon Ichikawa in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Sven KramerUncommon · Society · ATK 81 DEF 57
- Art museumUncommon · Arts · ATK 72 DEF 66
- California Academy of SciencesUncommon · Society · ATK 73 DEF 65
- Vladimir VernadskyUncommon · Science · ATK 71 DEF 67
- Chili sauce and pasteUncommon · Society · ATK 70 DEF 68
- Otto WagnerUncommon · Arts · ATK 71 DEF 67
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kon Ichikawa (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
