Teinosuke Kinugasa

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo was a Japanese filmmaker and actor.<ref name="kinenote">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="kotoba">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="jmdb">Template:Cite web</ref> His best-known films include the silent avant-garde films A Page of Madness and Crossroads and the Academy Award-winning historical drama Gate of Hell.<ref name="bfi">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Jacoby">Template:Cite book</ref>

Biography

Kinugasa was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture. He began his career as an onnagata (actor specializing in female roles) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese cinema began using actresses in the early 1920s, he switched to directing and worked for producers such as Shozo Makino, before becoming independent to make his best-known film, A Page of Madness (1926). It was considered lost for 45 years until the director rediscovered it in his shed in 1971. A silent film, Kinugasa released it with a new print and score to world acclaim. He also directed the film Crossroads in 1928. He directed jidaigeki at the Shochiku studios, where he helped establish the career of Chōjirō Hayashi (later known as Kazuo Hasegawa). After the war, he helmed big-budget costume productions for Daiei studios.<ref name="kotoba" /><ref name="kinenote" /> Gate of Hell received the Palme d'or at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.<ref name="kotoba" /><ref name="Jacoby" />

On 26 February 1982, Kinugasa died in Kyoto at the age of 86.<ref name="kinenote" /><ref name="kotoba" />

Selected filmography

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Template:Teinosuke Kinugasa Template:AcademyAwardBestForeignLanguageFilm 1947–1960

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