Ko Nakahira

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Kō Nakahira ( Japanese 中平 康 , born January 3, 1926 in Tokyo , † September 11, 1978 ) was a Japanese director and screenwriter .

Life

Kō Nakahira completed his training at the Shōchiku and Nikkatsu film studios . He has worked with directors such as Keisuke Kinoshita , Akira Kurosawa , Yūzō Kawashima , Minoru Shibuya , Tomotaka Tasaka and Kaneto Shindo .

In 1956 he made his debut as a director with the controversial film Kurutta kajitsu (international title Crazed Fruit ). The film deals with the conflict between two brothers who are in love with the same woman. The film is considered a milestone in the so-called Japanese New Wave . In 1957 he filmed Yukio Mishima's novel Bitoku no yoromeki . Even Shiki no aiyoku (1958) and Mikkai (1959) were well received by the critics. From the 1960s he filmed several conventional action thrillers for Nikkatsu.

Increasingly bored of the topics on offer, he moved to Hong Kong for a few years in 1967 , where he directed several crime films for the Shaw Brothers under the pseudonym Yang Shu Hsi .

In the early 1970s he returned to Japan and founded his own film production company. His first film, Yami no naka no chimimoryo , screened in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1971 . He made his last film Hensokyoku in 1976.

He died two years later at the age of 52.

In 2014, some of his works were shown at the Nippon Connection film festival in Frankfurt am Main and in a retrospective at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Cologne.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1956: Kurutta kajitsu ( 狂 っ た 果 実 )
  • 1956: Nerawareta otoko ( 狙 わ れ た 男 )
  • 1956: Natsu no arashi ( 夏 の 嵐 )
  • 1956: Gyūnyū-ya Frankie ( 牛乳 屋 フ ラ ン キ ー )
  • 1957: Koroshita no wa dare da ( 殺 し た の は 誰 だ )
  • 1957: Yūwaku ( 誘惑 )
  • 1957: Bitoku no yoromeki ( 美 徳 の よ ろ め き )
  • 1958: Shiki no aiyoku ( 四季 の 愛欲 )
  • 1959: Sono kabe o kudake ( そ の 壁 を 砕 け )
  • 1959: Mikkai ( 密 会 )
  • 1961: Aitsu to watashi ( あ い つ と 私 )
  • 1961: Arabu no arashi ( ア ラ ブ の 嵐 )
  • 1962: Wakakute warukute sugoi koitsura ( 若 く て 悪 く て 凄 い こ い つ ら )
  • 1962: Yabai koto nara zeni ni naru ( 危 い こ と な ら 銭 に な る )
  • 1963: Ala defat el Nil
  • 1963: Dorodarake no junjō ( 泥 だ ら け の 純情 )
  • 1963: Gendaikko ( 現代 っ 子 )
  • 1963: Hikaru umi ( 光 る 海 )
  • 1964: Getsuyōbi no Yuka ( 月曜日 の ユ カ )
  • 1964: Suna no ue no shokubutsu-gun ( 砂 の 上 の 植物 群 )
  • 1964: Onna no uzu to fuchi to nagare ( お ん な の 渦 と 渕 と 流 れ )
  • 1964: Ryojin nikki ( 猟 人 日記 , film adaptation of Turgenev's Notes of a Hunter )
  • 1965: Kuroi tobakushi ( 黒 い 賭博 師 )
  • 1965: Yarō ni kokkyō wa nai ( 野 郎 に 国境 は な い )
  • 1965: Kekkon sōdan ( 結婚 相 談 )
  • 1966: Akai glass ( 赤 い グ ラ ス )
  • 1966: Onna no uzu to fuchi to nagare ( お ん な の 渦 と 渕 と 流 れ )
  • 1967: Tejing 009 ( Chinese   特警 009 )
  • 1967: Feitian nulang (Chinese 飛天 女郎  /  飞天 女郎 )
  • 1968: The spiders no daishingeki ( ザ ・ ス パ イ ダ ー ス の 大 進 撃 )
  • 1968: Kuang lian shi (Chinese 狂恋 詩 )
  • 1969: Lieren (Chinese 猟 人 )
  • 1971: Yami no naka no chimimoryo ( 闇 の 中 の 魑魅 魍 魎 )
  • 1972: Konketsuji Rika ( 混血 児 リ カ )
  • 1973: Konketsuji Rika: Hitoriyuku sasuraitabi ( 混血 児 リ カ ひ と り り ゆ く さ す ら い 旅 )
  • 1976: Hensōkyoku ( 変 奏 曲 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Alexander Jacoby: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Stone Bridge Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1933330532 , page 1980
  2. ↑ Official Selection 1971: In Competition ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at festival-cannes.fr, accessed on May 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.festival-cannes.fr
  3. ↑ Ko Nakahira - The Wild Child of The Sixties ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at nipponconnection.com, accessed May 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nipponconnection.com
  4. ↑ Retrospective Ko Nakahira from September to December 2014 in the Japanese Cultural Institute ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved from jki.de on August 29, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jki.de
personal data
SURNAME Nakahira, Ko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 中平 康 (Japanese); Yang Shu Hsi (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo , Japan
DATE OF DEATH September 11, 1978