Kazuo Kuroki

Kazuo Kuroki ( Japanese 黒 木 和 雄 Kuroki Kazuo; born November 10, 1930 in Matsusaka , † April 12, 2006 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese director and screenwriter .

Kuroki began his career as a documentary filmmaker before making feature films in the 1960s. Some of these low-budget films like Tobenai chinmoku and Ryoma ansatsu are now considered classics of Japanese cinema. From the end of the 1980s he made a trilogy about the Second World War . Ashita ( The Day Before , 1988) and Utsukushii natsu kirishima (A Boy's Summer, 2002) play in the last days of the war, while Chichi to kuraseba (The Face of Jizô, 2004) reflects the trauma of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

Filmography

• 1959: Kaiheki
• 1960: Ruporutâju honoo
• 1962: Waga ai Hokkaidô
• 1963: Aru marason rannâ no kiroku
• 1966: Tobenai chinmoku (と べ な い 沈 黙, 100 min.)
• 1969: Kyuba no koibito (キ ュ ー バ の 恋人, 98 min.)
• 1970: Nippon no akuryo (日本 の 悪 霊, 98 min.)
• 1974: Ryoma ansatsu (竜 馬 暗殺, 118 min.)
• 1975: Matsuri no junbi (祭 り の 準備, 117 min.)
• 1976: Fûfu tabi nikki saraba ronin (TV series)
• 1978: Genshiryoku sensô (原子 力 戦 争 Lost Love, 106 min.)
• 1980: Yûgure made (夕 暮 ま で, 110 min.)
• 1983: Namidabashi (泪橋, 117 min.)
• 1988: The day before ( TOMORROW 明日Tomorrow Ashita, 105 min. )
• 1989: Boku no iru machi
• 1990: The city of Rônin (浪人 街 Rônin-gai, 117 min.)
• 2000: Pickpocket ( ス リ Suri, 112 min.)
• 2002: A Boy's Summer ( 美 し い 夏 キ リ シ マ Utsukushii natsu kirishima, 118 min.)
• 2004: The face of Jizô (父 と 暮 せ ばChichi to kuraseba, 100 min.)
• 2006: The youth of the Etsuko Kamiya (紙 屋 悦子 の 青春 Kamiya Etsuko no seishun, 111 min.)

Web links

• Kazuo Kuroki in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Animeboard - Screening "The Face of Jizo" (Chichi to kuraseba)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ YIDFF: Publications: DocBox: # 18. Retrieved November 11, 2019 .