Matsuyama Takashi (production designer)

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Matsuyama Takashi ( Japanese 松山 崇 , sometimes also with Onyomi reading of the first name: Matsuyama Sō ; born September 22, 1908 in Kobe ; † July 14, 1977 ) was a Japanese production designer , best known for his work for Akira Kurosawa's films and was nominated twice for an Oscar .

Life

Matsuyama graduated from the Bunka Gakuin singing school , which he graduated in 1932, and in 1937 became an employee of the Tōhō Studios ( 東宝 ス タ ジ オ ). For the first time he worked as a set designer in the Japanese film industry with Etchan no sen'ninbari by Fumindo Kurata with Etchan , Chieko Murata and Koji Shima . Until 1968 he was involved in the staging of more than eighty films.

He was nominated at the Academy Awards in 1953 together with Haruzō Matsumoto for the Oscar for the best production design in a black and white film, for the 1950 film Rashomon - Das Lustwäldchen ( Rashōmon ) with Toshirō Mifune , Machiko Kyō and directed by Akira Kurosawa Masayuki Mori .

He received another Oscar nomination for Best Production Design in a black and white film in 1957 for also by Akira Kurosawa staged and the genre of the Japanese period film ( jidaigeki ) scoring film The Seven Samurai ( Shichinin no samurai , 1954) with Takashi Shimura , Toshiro Mifune and Yoshio Inaba .

Other well-known films in which he worked as art director and production designer were Akira Kurosawa's A Stray Dog ( Nora inu , 1949) with Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Keiko Awaji, as well as the Once Really Live ( Ikiru , 1952) with Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori and Haruo Tanaka .

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Matsuyama is the family name, Takashi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Matsuyama, Takashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 松山 崇 (Japanese); Matsuyama, Sō; Matsuda, Sō
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese art director
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kobe
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1977