Kinugasa Teinosuke

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Kinugasa Teinosuke

Kinugasa Teinosuke ( Japanese 衣 笠 貞 之 助 ; born January 1, 1896 in Kameyama ( Mie Prefecture ); † February 26, 1982 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese film director. He was first famous as one of the great pioneers of Japanese film , and later for his large-scale spectacular films. He is considered a stylistic pioneer for Akira Kurosawa and others.

Live and act

Kinugasa began as a performer of Onnagata (女 形), i.e. portrayals of women, in various Shimpa theater groups. He continued his career as an onnagata from 1917 with the Nikkatsu film company. There he found out in the next few years that actresses should now take the place of Onnagata.

No longer as a performer, he turned to other aspects of the film. He wrote his first screenplay in 1920 and made his directorial debut in 1922. His best-known early films include the 1926 silent film " Kurutta Ippēji ", for example "A Side of Madness", which, together with his film " Jūjiro " ("Way of the Cross"; 1928), is one of the few Japanese films still extant from the 1920s. Kinugasa himself found the previously lost film in his house in 1971. In expressive sequences of images and without subtitles , Kinugasa describes the subjective perception of the inmates of a madhouse and the story taking place there.

After the end of the Pacific War in 1945, he produced large-format films and some revivals of earlier films. His film “ The Gate of Hell ” (“Jigokumon”) from 1953 was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1954 and received the honorary award for the best foreign language film at the 1955 Academy Awards . In 1958, "Shirasagi" (白鷺), "The White Heron" won a special prize in Cannes.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Shimpa (新派), literally "New Wave", describes a modernized form of Kabuki theater at the end of the 19th century.

literature

  • Mariann Lewinsky: A crazy site. Silent film and cinematic avant-garde in Japan . Chronos Verlag, 1997 ISBN 390531228X
  • S. Noma (Ed.): Kinugasa Teinosuke . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 788.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Kinugasa is the family name, Teinosuke the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kinugasa, Teinosuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 衣 笠 貞 之 助 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Mie prefecture
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1982
Place of death Kyoto