Masayuki Mori (actor)

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Masayuki Mori ( 森 雅 之, Mori Masayuki ; born January 13, 1911 in Sapporo , born Arishima Yukimitsu ; † October 7, 1973 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese actor .

life and career

Arishima Yukimitsu was born into a wealthy family to the well-known writer Arishima Takeo , who committed suicide with his lover when Yukimitsu was twelve years old. His mother had died of tuberculosis in 1916 . He later gave up his maiden name. He attended the University of Kyoto and began his acting career as Masayuki Mori at the theater. In 1943 he made his film debut and in 1945 worked for the first time in two films by Akira Kurosawa in supporting roles. He quickly became popular and was considered one of the most renowned actors in his country at his wedding.

Mori achieved lasting fame primarily through his roles for Kurosawa: In his masterpiece Rashomon - Das Lustwäldchen in 1950, Mori played a medieval samurai who was murdered as a result of a robbery and whose circumstances of death are portrayed in the film from several perspectives. In the love triangle between the main actors Toshirō Mifune , Machiko Kyō and Mori, the poles of Japanese cinema in the 1950s were also reflected: In contrast to the mostly emphatically masculine and raw characters, Mori often gave the elegant- cultivated and sensitive aristocrats, for which he was predestined by his reserved and intelligent acting. Mori then played the title character in Kurosawa 's Dostoevsky film The Idiot (1951) and a manipulative, corrupt industrialist in The Bad Sleep Well (1960), and Mifune played rival characters in both films. Mori worked with other great directors of his generation, for example with Mikio Naruse several times on his social dramas, including Ukigomo (1955) and The Girls of Ginza . In Kenji Mizoguchi's ghost story Ugetsu - Tales under the Rain Moon (1953), Mori played an enchanted potter who falls under the spell of a ghost woman.

In the 1960s, Mori, who was now over 50, was increasingly limited to supporting roles and shot some television productions. When he died of cancer in October 1973 at the age of 62, he had worked in around 90 film and television productions. His daughter was the actress Aoi Nakajima (1945-1991).

Awards

  • 1948: Mainichi Eiga Concour as best leading actor for Anjô-ke no butôkai
  • 1956: Kinema Jumpō Prize for Best Actor for Ukigomo
  • 1961: Mainichi Eiga Concour as Best Supporting Actor for Die Böse sleep well

Filmography (selection)

  • 1942: Haha no chizu
  • 1945: Sugata Sanshiro sequel (Zoku Sugata Sanshirô)
  • 1945: The men who stepped on the tiger's tail (Tora no O o Fumu Otoko-tachi)
  • 1946: Builder of the Morning (Asu o tsukuru hitobito)
  • 1947: Anjô-ke no butôkai
  • 1950: Rashomon - The Pleasure Grove (Rashōmon)
  • 1951: The Idiot (Hakuchi)
  • 1951: Musashino fujin
  • 1953: brother and sister (Ani imôto)
  • 1953: Ugetsu - Tales under the rain moon (Ugetsu monogatari)
  • 1955: Ukigomo
  • 1955: Kokoro
  • 1955: The Princess Yang (Yôkihi)
  • 1960: Otôto
  • 1960: The girls of Ginza (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki)
  • 1960: The bad guys sleep well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)
  • 1963: Taiheiyô hitoribotchi
  • 1970: Zatôichi abare-himatsuri
  • 1972: Ken to hana

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Anderer: Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films . Simon and Schuster, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68177-277-6 ( google.de [accessed April 4, 2020]).
  2. ^ David Thomson: The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014, ISBN 978-1-101-87470-7 ( google.de [accessed April 4, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Masayuki Mori | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved April 4, 2020 (American English).
  4. ^ David Thomson: The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Sixth Edition . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014, ISBN 978-1-101-87470-7 ( google.de [accessed April 4, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Masayuki Mori | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos. Retrieved April 4, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ Aoi Nakajima (Internet Movie Database). Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Masayuki Mori (Awards at the Internet Movie Database). Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mori, Masayuki
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 森 雅 之 (Japanese); Arishima Yukimitsu (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Sapporo , Japan
DATE OF DEATH 7th October 1973
Place of death Tokyo , Japan