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After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948) was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Madadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).Sanshiro Sugata (1943) Sugata Sanshirô
Ichiban utsukushiku (1944) The Most Beautiful
Zoku Sugata Sanshirô (1945) Sanshiro Sugata 2
Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi (1945) The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
No Regrets for Our Youth (1946) Waga seishun ni kuinashi
One Wonderful Sunday (1947) Subarashiki nichiyôbi
Yoidore tenshi (1948) Drunken Angel
Shizukanaru kettô (1949) The Quiet Duel
Nora inu (1949) Stray Dog
Shûbun (1950) Scandal
Rashomon (1950) Rashômon
Hakuchi (1951) The Idiot
Ikiru (1952) To Live
Seven Samurai (1954) Shichinin no samurai
I Live in Fear: Record of a Living Being (1955) Ikimono no kiroku
Throne of Blood (1957) Kumonosu-jô
The Lower Depths (1957) Donzoko
The Hidden Fortress (1958) Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru
Yojimbo (1961) Yôjinbô
Sanjuro (1962) Tsubaki Sanjûrô
High and Low (1963) Tengoku to jigoku
Red Beard (1965) Akahige
Dodes'ka-den (1970) Dodesukaden
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Kagemusha (1980)
Ran (1985)
Dreams (1990) Yume
Rhapsody in August (1991) Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku
Madadayo (1993) Ο δάσκαλος- Director
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Coming from a lower class family Mizoguchi entered the production company Nikkatsu as an actor specialized in female roles. Later he became an assistant director and made his first film in 1922. Although he filmed almost 90 movies in the silent era, only his last 12 productions are really known outside of Japan because they were especially produced for Venice (e.g The Life of Oharu (1952) or Sansho the Bailiff (1954). He only filmed two productions in color: Yôkihi (1955) and Taira Clan Saga (1955).Tôkyô kôshinkyoku (1929) Tokyo March
Taki no shiraito (1933) The Water Magician / Cascading White Threads
The Downfall (1935) Orizuru Osen
Maria no Oyuki (1935) Oyuki, the Madonna
Gubijinsô (1935) The Field Poppy
Osaka Elegy (1936) Naniwa erejî
Gion no shimai (1936) Sisters of the Gion
Zangiku monogatari (1939) The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums
Genroku Chûshingura (1941) The 47 Ronin
Miyamoto Musashi (1944)
Meitô bijomaru (1945) The Famous Sword Bijomaru
Saikaku ichidai onna (1952) The Life of Oharu
Shin Heike monogatari (1955) Taira Clan Saga / The Sacrilegious Hero- Director
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Tomu Uchida was born on 26 April 1898 in Okayama, Okayama, Japan. He was a director and actor, known for Earth (1939), A Fugitive from the Past (1965) and Miyamoto Musashi VI (1971). He died on 7 August 1970 in Japan.Chiyari Fuji (1955) A Bloody Spear on Mount Fuji
Daibosatsu tôge (1957-9) Sword in the Moonlight 1 & 2 & 3
Hero of the Red Light District (1960) Yôtô monogatari: hana no Yoshiwara hyakunin-giri
A Fugitive from the Past (1965) Kiga kaikyô / Strait of Hunger
Miyamoto Musashi (1962-1971) 1-6- Director
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Inagaki's career in film began as an actor--a child actor, in fact, appearing in numerous silent films beginning at the very dawn of Japanese cinema. This is probably why he was promoted to director at the unusually (for Japan) young age of 22. Along with producer Mansaku Itami (later the father of another acclaimed director, Juzo Itami), Inagaki concerned himself with the genre of Japanese period films. He also wrote (under a pseudonym) similar films for the short-lived director Sadao Yamanaka. The work of Inagaki, Itami and Yamanaka, singly and together, directly influenced the likes of Kenji Mizoguchi later, and helped define the very genre of the period film. Inagaki would direct dozens of them over his career, including two versions of Chushingura, and the Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film Samurai (1954, released in Japan as Miyamoto Musashi). For all his success, Inagaki grew more and more frustrated with his assignments over the years. Although proud of his final effort, Furin Kazan (Samurai Banners, 1969), he was unable to find financing in the increasingly conservative atmosphere of 1970s Japan. Once he had been at the top of his profession, second at Toho only to Akira Kurosawa; now, like Kurosawa, he was being cast aside as an old man whose time had passed, and whose kind of movie was now too expensive to produce. In his despair, Inagaki turned to alcohol, which helped contribute to his lonely and painful death. Of all the dozens of films he made, he often said, only a handful had he actually wanted to make: the Samurai trilogy (1954-6) and Furin Kazan. Whatever his opinion, much of his other work remains estimable, including Nippon Tanjo (1959) and Muhomatsu no Issho (The Life of Matsu the Untamed, 1958).Miyamoto Musashi (1954-1956)
The Rickshaw Man (1958) Muhomatsu no issho
Nippon tanjô (1959) The Birth of Japan / The Three Treasures
47 Samurai (1962) Chûshingura
Abare Gôemon (1966) Rise Against the Sword
Samurai Banners (1969) Fûrin kazan
Machibuse (1970) Incident at Blood Pass- Director
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Masaki Kobayashi was born on 14 February 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on 4 October 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.The Human Condition I, II, III (1959-1961)
Harakiri (1962) Seppuku
Kwaidan (1964) Kaidan
Samurai Rebellion (1967) Jôi-uchi: Hairyô tsuma shimatsu
Inochi bô ni furô (1971) Inn of Evil / At the Risk of My Life- Director
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Masahiro Shinoda was born on 9 March 1931 in Gifu, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Double Suicide (1969), Chinmoku (1971) and Ballad of Orin (1977). He has been married to Shima Iwashita since 1967. They have one child.With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) Utsukushisa to kanashimi to
Samurai Spy (1965) Ibun Sarutobi Sasuke
Double Suicide (1969) Shinjû: Ten no Amijima
Silence (1971) Chinmoku
Himiko (1974)
Ballad of Orin (1977) Hanare goze Orin
Gonza the Spearman (1986) Yari no gonza
Owls' Castle (1999) Fukuro no shiro- Director
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Okamoto belonged to what one colleague called "the generation where most of them got killed": the leagues of university graduates who were drafted into and sacrificed to the last years of Japan's war in the South Pacific. Okamoto was drafted during the very worst of it, in 1943, but almost alone among his colleagues managed to survive. The experience helped shape his outlook on the nature of human conflict in general, and the Japanese war in particular: among his earliest successes (which led to a series) was Dokuritsugu Gurentai (1959), an acerbic story of island-bound soldiers that helped make Okamoto's reputation. Okamoto also made a name for himself as a director of equally cynical gangster pictures at Toho, including Boss of the Underworld (1959) and The Age of Assassins (1967). Kihachi Okamoto began his filmic training in 1945 under such estimable teachers as directors Mikio Naruse, Senkichi Taniguchi. and Ishiro Honda.Samurai Assassin (1965) Samurai
The Sword of Doom (1966) Dai-bosatsu tôge
Nihon no ichiban nagai hi (1967) Japan's Longest Day
Kill! (1968) Kiru- Director
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Hideo Gosha was born on 26 February 1929 in Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan (undisclosed). He was a director and writer, known for The Steel Edge of Revenge (1969), Yôkirô (1983) and Onimasa (1982). He died on 30 August 1992.Sanbiki no samurai (1964) Three Outlaw Samurai
Sword of the Beast (1965) Kedamono no ken
Tange Sazen Hien iaigiri (1966) The Secret of the Urn
Goyokin (1969) Goyôkin
Hitokiri (1969) Tenchu!
Shussho Iwai (1971) The Wolves
Onimasa (1982) Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai
Yôkirô (1983) The Geisha- Director
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Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, primarily because there were no entrance exams. By his own account Miike was an undisciplined student and attended few classes, but when a local TV company came scouting for unpaid production assistants, the school nominated the one pupil who never showed up: Miike. He spent almost a decade working in television, in many different roles, before becoming an assistant director in film to, amongst others, his old mentor Imamura. The "V-Cinema" (Direct to Video) boom of the early 1990s was to be Miike's break into directing his own films, as newly formed companies hired eager young filmmakers willing to work cheap and crank out low-budget action movies. Miike's first theatrically distributed film was Shinjuku Triad Society (1995) (Shinjuku Triad Society), and from then on he alternated V-Cinema films with higher-budgeted pictures. His international breakthrough came with Audition (1999) (Audition), and since then he has an ever expanding cult following in the west. A prolific director, Miike has directed (at the time of this writing) 60+ films in his 13 years as director, his films being known for their explicit and taboo representations of violence and sex, as seen in such works as Bijitâ Q (2001) (Visitor Q), Ichi the Killer (2001) (Ichi The Killer) and the Dead or Alive Trilogy: Dead or Alive (1999), Dead or Alive 2: Birds (2000) and Dead or Alive: Final (2002).Ichi the Killer (2001) Koroshiya 1
Kikuchi-jô monogatari - sakimori-tachi no uta / Kumamoto monogatari (2001) Kumamoto Stories
Gokudô kyôfu dai-gekijô: Gozu (2003) Gozu
13 Assassins (2010) Jûsan-nin no shikaku
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011) Ichimei
Mugen no jûnin (2017) Blade of the Immortal- Writer
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Yamada Yoji graduated Tokyo University in 1954, the year he joined Shochiku as an assistant director. In 1969, he launched the popular "Tora-san" series, the world's longest theatrical film series. "The Twilight Samurai" (The Twilight Samurai (2002)) marks his 77th film as well as his 41th year as a director since his first film in 1961: Nikai no Tanin (Stranger Upstairs).The Twilight Samurai (2002) Tasogare Seibei
The Hidden Blade (2004) Kakushi ken oni no tsume
Love and Honour (2006) Bushi no ichibun
About Her Brother (2010) Otôto- Director
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Hideyuki Hirayama was born on 18 September 1950 in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan. He is a director and assistant director, known for Begging for Love (1998), Family of Strangers (2019) and Turn (2001).Sword of Desperation (2010) Hisshiken torisashi- Director
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Born in Takaoka, Toyama, Yojiro Takita came to international audiences' attention with the release of Okuribito ('Departures'), which won the Best foreign Language film awards at the Oscars in 2009. He had begun his directorial career in the 1980s with the 'chikan' ('molester') series depicting gropers in settings like trains. Still in the 'ping eiga' adult sub-genre he also completed the Serial Rape thriller in 1983. He diversified to comedy and TV serial work and, at the turn of the century, directed the mainstream Onmyoji. More recently he has been less prolific.When the Last Sword is Drawn (2003) Mibu gishi den
Okuribito (2008) Departures- Director
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Takashi Koizumi was born on 6 November 1944 in Mito, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for After the Rain (1999), Hakase no aishita sûshiki (2006) and A Samurai Chronicle (2014).After the Rain (1999) Ame agaru
A Samurai Chronicle (2014) Higurashi no ki- Director
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Keishi Otomo is a film director and screenwriter. He is renowned in Japan for his genre-defying storytelling, human portrayal, and dynamic, wide-ranging visual expression. From the Epic Historical Taiga drama series, "Ryomaden" (2010), a poignant coming-of-age tale of an orphaned shogi (Japanese chess) master learning to connect with humanity "March Comes in Like a Lion" (2017) to the globally successful "Rurouni Kenshin" franchise, his works cross genres (from period pieces based on historical figures, dramas which delve into complex social issues, action, and mysteries) as well as being one of the few directors to attain both critical and commercial success in adapting famous Japanese manga series and novels.Rurouni Kenshin (2012) Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014) Rurôni Kenshin: Kyôto Taika-hen
Rurôni Kenshin: Densetsu no saigo-hen (2014) Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends
Rurôni Kenshin: Sai shûshô - The Final (2021) Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part I - The Final- Writer
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The director and screenwriter Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938) is a key figure in the development of early Japanese cinema. Although he made 27 films over a six-year period, only three of them survived in nearly complete form: Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935), Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937), and Priest of Darkness (1936). These films represent the diversity of genres and elegant visual style Yamanaka chose. Moreover, he contributed to the establishment of the jidaigeki genre, or historical drama. After being drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army, Yamanaka tragically died of dysentery on the front in Manchuria aged 28.Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) Ninjô kami fûsen- Director
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Kon Ichikawa has been influenced by artists as diverse as Walt Disney and Jean Renoir, and his films cover a wide spectrum of moods, from the comic to the overwhelmingly ironic and even the perverse. Ichikawa began his career as a cartoonist, and this influence is apparent in his skillful use of the widescreen, and in the strong, angular patterns seen in many of his compositions. He has directed Mr. Pu (1953), a popular film based on Junichi Yokoyama's "Mr. Pu" comic strip. At various points in his career Ichikawa has shown that he is capable of appealing to a popular audience without compromising his artistry. A great visual stylist and perfectionist, Ichikawa excels at screen adaptations of literary masterpieces, including Sôseki Natsume's The Heart (1955), Yukio Mishima's Conflagration (1958), Jun'ichirô Tanizaki's Odd Obsession (1959) and I Am a Cat (1975) and Tôson Shimazaki's The Outcast (1962). He has also remade film classics, such as Yutaka Abe's Ashi ni sawatta onna (1926) (Ichikawa's version: 1952) and Teinosuke Kinugasa's Yukinojô henge: Daiippen (1935) (Ichikawa's version: 1963), transposing them to contemporary settings.
The West was first introduced to Ichikawa when his The Burmese Harp (1956) won the San Giorgio Prize at the 1956 Venice Film Festival. His epic documentary Tokyo Olympiad (1965) (released the following year) and Alone on the Pacific (1963) explore, with dignity and imagination, the limits of human endurance. He has also worked in the thriller genre, with The Hole (1957), The Inugami Family (1976) and The Devil's Island (1977). Ichikawa tends to present strongly etched, complex characters: the stuttering acolyte who desires to preserve the "purity" of the Golden Pavilion (ENJO); the elderly husband who resorts to injections and voyeurism in order to remain sexually active (KAGI); the member of a pariah class who tries to deny his identity and to "pass" in regular society (HAKAI). More recently, Actress (1987) is a tribute to the fiercely independent Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, who starred in many of Kenji Mizoguchi's films and was herself a director in later life. On the lighter side, Ichikawa's characters also include a 19th-century cat; a good-hearted, hapless teacher; and a baby who narrates how the world looks from his vantage point. He is especially adept at mixing comedy and tragedy within the same story. Until 1965, Ichikawa's close collaborator was his wife, screenwriter Natto Wada, with whom he produced most of his finest films.The Heart (1955) Kokoro
The Burmese Harp (1956) Biruma no tategoto
Enjô (1958) Conflagration / Flame of Torment / The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Fires on the Plain (1959) Nobi
Younger Brother (1960) Otôto
Hakai (1962) The Outcast / The Broken Commandments / The Sin
An Actor's Revenge (1963) Yukinojô henge
The Makioka Sisters (1983) Sasame-yuki
Taketori monogatari (1987) Princess from the Moon
47 Ronin (1994) Shijûshichinin no shikaku- Director
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Eiichi Kudô was born on 17 July 1929 in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Yaju-deka (1982), Maboroshi toro no onna (1961) and Sangyô supai (1968). He died on 23 September 2000 in Kyoto, Japan.Jûsan-nin no shikaku (1963) 13 Assassins
Ninja hicho fukuro no shiro (1963) Castle of Owls
The Great Killing (1964) Dai satsujin
Eleven Samurai (1967) Jûichinin no samurai- Director
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Influential Japanese film director born May 7th, 1911, often credited as being the father of Godzilla. His name is a combination of "I" (or Ino), meaning "boar", and "shirô," meaning fourth son in the family. Originally, the young Honda had aspirations of becoming an artist; however, as he entered into his teens, it was cinema that became his number 1 interest.
He attended Nippon University studying art, but was drafted by the Japanese military and spent nearly eight years in uniform. After a period of imprisonment in China as a P.O.W., he returned to Japan to join Toho Studios, where, soon afterward, he became acquainted with its special effects director, Eiji Tsuburaya. The two worked on a handful of films before collaborating on the ground-breaking epic monster film Godzilla (1954). Honda was also at the director's helm for such films as Rodan (1956), The Mysterians (1957) and its loose sequel Battle in Outer Space (1959), Mothra (1961), Matango (1963), and Destroy All Monsters (1968). Although the Japanese monster films had been derided by some U.S. critics, Honda was especially proud of his contribution to this rather unique aspect of the fantasy and science fiction genres.
Honda was a life-long friend of fellow Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and worked on several of his landmark films, including Stray Dog (1949), Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980) (a.k.a. "Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior"), and Ran (1985).
Honda died at the age of 81 on February 28th, 1993, with Kurosawa delivering the eulogy at his funeral.Gojira (1954-1977) & King Kong & Varan & Mothra
Chikyû Bôeigun (1957) The Mysterians
Bijo to ekitai ningen (1958) The H-Man
Uchû daisensô (1959) Battle in Outer Space
Gasu ningen dai 1 gô (1960) The Human Vapor
Yôsei Gorasu (1962) Gorath
Kaitei gunkan (1963) Atragon
Matango (1963)
Uchû daikaijû Dogora (1964) Dogora
Kaijû daisensô (1965) Invasion of Astro-Monster
Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon (1966) Frankenstein Conquers the World
Furankenshutain no kaijû: Sanda tai Gaira (1966) The War of the Gargantuas
Ido zero daisakusen (1969) Latitude Zero
Gezora, Ganime, Kameba: Kessen! Nankai no daikaijû (1970) Space Amoeba- Director
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Jun Fukuda would spend his childhood in Manchuria before attending Nihon University College of Art. His interests would lead him to filmmaking and in 1946 he joined Toho as an assistant director. In his tenure as an assistant director, he would work under filmmakers such as Hiroshi Inagaki and Ishirô Honda, leading to his first work in special effects filmmaking with Rodan (1956). His career as a full-fledged director would take off in 1959. His early work leaned more towards mystery but he began to expand into more action and comedic centric works by the mid-1960s. Around this time, Toho gave Fukuda the opportunity to direct a Godzilla film. Beginning with Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966), Fukuda would become Toho's go to director for special effects films after Ishiro Honda. Fukuda's films would develop a unique identity beginning with his his choice to replace series composer Akira Ifukube with Masaru Satô. His films would be full of colorful characters and vibrant action demonstrating his filmmaking craftsmanship. During his career he would direct five Godzilla films, along with espionage films and comedies. He would also write the un-produced screenplays of The Invisible Man and Invisible Man vs. the Human Torch. While Fukuda was known to harbor a disdain for his work, he would seem to develop an understanding of what his work met to people as fans would send him letters and messages during his final years. Fukuda would passed away from lung cancer on December 3, 2000, at the age of 77.Densô ningen (1960) The Secret of the Telegian
Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto (1966) Ebirah, Terror of the Deep / Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Kaijûtô no kessen: Gojira no musuko (1967) Son of Godzilla
Chikyû kogeki meirei: Gojira tai Gaigan (1972) Godzilla vs. Gigan / War of the Monsters
Gojira tai Megaro (1973) Godzilla vs. Megalon
Gojira tai Mekagojira (1974) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Wakusei daisenso (1977) The War in Space- Director
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Kenji Misumi was born on March 2, 1921 in Kyoto, Japan. Misumi was the illegitimate child of a geisha mother and originally wanted to be a painter, but his father disapproved. Kenji attended Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. During this time Misumi met future Daiei studio head Kan Kikuchi, who gave Misumi a business card for a prominent studio executive. Kenji began his career at Daiei as a gofer before going on to become an assistant director. Moreover, after World War II Misumi spent about four years as an inmate at a prison of war camp in Siberia. Kenji directed his first film for Daiei in 1956 and worked profusely as a contract director for Daiei until the studio went bankrupt in 1971. In the wake of Daiei's collapse Misumi went on to direct several more movies that include four out of six entries in the hugely popular and successful "Lone Wolf and Cub" series. He died at age 54 on September 24, 1975.Momotarô-zamurai (1957) The Demon Crusader / Freelance Samurai / Demon Hunter Samurai
Satan's Sword (1960) Daibosatsu tôge / Satan's Sword: Great Buddha Pass
Satan's Sword II (1960) Daibosatsu toge: Ryujin no maki / Satan's Sword 2: The Dragon God
Shaka (1961) Buddha
Kiru (1962) Destiny's Son
Nemuri Kyôshirô: Shôbu (1964) Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Adventure / Nemuri Kyoshiro: Victory
Ken (1964) The sword
Nemuri Kyôshirô: Enjôken (1965) Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Fire / Nemuri Kyoshiro: The Swordsman and the Pirate
Daimajin ikaru (1966) Daimajin 2 The Return Of Giant Majin
Nemuri Kyôshirô: Buraiken (1966) Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Villainy / The Sword That Saved Edo
Oni no sumu yakata (1969) Devil's Temple
Shirikurae Magoichi (1969) The Magoichi Saga
Kozure Ôkami (4)
Goyôkiba (1972) Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
Okami yo rakujitsu o kire (1974) The Last Samurai
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Shoichi Mashiko is known for The Hovering Blade (2009), Luxurious Bone (2001) and Kyô no dekigoto (2003).The Hovering Blade (2009) Samayou yaiba- Director
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Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu bagu" (New Wave) movement in Japanese cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, to the contemporary use of cinema and television to express paradoxes in modern society. After an early involvement with the student protest movement in Kyoto, Oshima rose rapidly in the Shochiku company from the status of apprentice, in 1954, to that of director. By 1960, he had grown disillusioned with the traditional studio production policies and broke away from Shochiku to form his own independent production company, Sozosha, in 1965. With other Japanese New Wave filmmakers, like Masahiro Shinoda, Shôhei Imamura and Yoshishige Yoshida, Oshima reacted against the humanistic style and subject matter of directors like Yasujirô Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa, as well as against established left-wing political movements. Oshima has been primarily concerned with depicting the contradictions and tensions of postwar Japanese society. His films tend to expose contemporary Japanese materialism, while also examining what it means to be Japanese in the face of rapid industrialization and Westernization. Many of Oshima's earlier films, such as A Town of Love and Hope (1959) and The Sun's Burial (1960), feature rebellious, underprivileged youths in anti-heroic roles. The film for which he is probably best-known in the West, In the Realm of the Senses (1976), centers on an obsessive sexual relationship. Like several other Oshima works, it gains additional power by being based on an actual incident. Other important Oshima films include Death by Hanging (1968), an examination of the prejudicial treatment of Koreans in Japan; Boy (1969), which deals with the cruel use of a child for extortion purposes, and with the child's subsequent escapist fantasies; The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970), about another ongoing concern of Oshima's, the art of filmmaking itself; and The Ceremony (1971), which presents a microcosmic view of Japanese postwar history through the lives of one wealthy family. In recent years, Oshima has repeatedly turned to sources outside Japan for the production of his films. This was the case with In the Realm of the Senses (1976) and Max My Love (1986). It is less well-known in the West that Oshima has also been a prolific documentarist, film theorist and television personality. He is the host of a long-running television talk show, "The School for Wives", in which female participants (kept anonymous by a distorting glass) present their personal problems, to which he responds from offscreen.Death by Hanging (1968) Kôshikei
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) Ai no korîda
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)- Writer
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Kaneto Shindô was born on 22 April 1912 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Postcard (2010), The Island (1960) and A Last Note (1995). He was married to Nobuko Otowa and Miyo Shindo. He died on 29 May 2012 in Hiroshima, Japan.Onibaba (1964)
Kuroneko (1968) Yabu no naka no kuroneko / A Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove
Ichimai no hagaki (2010) Postcard- Writer
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Terayama Shuji was born the only son of Terayama Hachiro and Terayama Hatsu in Hirosaki City, Aomori on December 10th, 1935; but his birth and name were officially registered on January 10th, 1936. His father, an officer in the "thought police", leaves for the Pacific War in early 1941. He dies in September of 1945 of dysentery on the Indonesian island of Celebes, one month after HIroshima and the end of the war. Terayama himself lived through the Aomori air raids that killed more than 30,000 people when he was 9 years old.
After the war, Terayama's mother was forced to leave Aomori to find work at an American army base in Kyushu. Terayama was left to live with relatives, where he was given a place to sleep behind the screen in a movie theater. In 1954 he entered Waseda University, but soon fell ill with nephrotic syndrome when he was 19 years old. He spends the time working on his own poetry and writings, as well as reading many Japanese and western classics; he was particularly impressed with Leutreamont's Les Chants de Maldoror.
Since 1959, he mainly earned his life as writer of broadcasts or theatric drama. In 1960, he married producer Eiko Kujo, and with her formed the theatre company "Tenjo Sajiki", or the Peanut Gallery in 1967. In 1964, he won the Prix Italia for his radio drama "Yamamba". In 1970 his first feature length film "The Emperor Tamato Ketchup" shocked the world with graphic images of a children's revolt along Nazi themes. He continued to write, produce, direct and generally create some of the worlds best avant-garde art until his death of the terminal illness that plagued him at age 49 on May 4th 1983. Prolific to the end, he published nearly 200 literary works, and over 20 shorts and full length films as well as untold works of theater with Tenjo Sajiki and others.
He has no children, but his art lives on with annual theatre events, and every 10 years a full summer festivals featuring his life and works.Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974) Den-en ni shisu- Director
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Hiroshi Teshigahara was born the son of Sofu Teshigahara who was the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana (flower arrangement). In 1950, he graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in oil painting. In 1958, he became the director of Sogetsu Art Centre and took a leading role in avant-garde activities in many fields of art. Beginning in 1980, acting as movie director, he was the Iemoto (Headmaster) of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana.Pitfall (1962) Otoshiana
Woman of the Dunes (1964) Suna no onna
The Face of Another (1966) Tanin no kao