Kohei Ezaki

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Kōhei Ezaki ( Japanese 江 崎 孝 坪 , Ezaki Kōhei ; born June 15, 1904 in Takatō (today: Ina ), Nagano Prefecture ; † June 27, 1963 ) was a Japanese painter and costume designer .

Life

Kōhei Ezaki, born in 1904 in the small town of Takatō in Nagano Prefecture , became a student of the well-known Japanese Nihonga painter Seison Maeda (1885–1977) and then worked himself as a Nihonga painter in Japan. In the 1950s, like Maeda, he was also involved in film. Director Akira Kurosawa brought him in 1954 for his internationally award-winning cinema production The Seven Samurai with Toshirō Mifune in the leading role as a consultant on art and folklore issues. Ezaki also worked as a costume designer for the film, which earned him an Oscar nomination in the category Best Costume Design at the 1957 award in the category black and white film.

In 1957 and 1958, Kurosawa engaged him again as an art supervisor for his two films The Castle in the Cobweb Forest and The Hidden Fortress . For the director Keisuke Kinoshita he acted again in 1960 as artistic advisor for his historical drama Fuefukigawa .

Ezaki died on June 27, 1963 at the age of 59.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

As a costume designer

As an artistic advisor

literature

  • Kohei Ezaki. In: Akira Kurosawa: Akira Kurosawa: Interviews. , Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2008, p. 15

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kōhei Ezaki in Kotobank
personal data
SURNAME Ezaki, Kōhei
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 江 崎 孝 坪 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese painter and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Takatō (today: Ina ), Nagano Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1963