Shinsuke Ogawa
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1935-06-25 (57 years old)
Deathday
1992-02-07
Place of Birth
Shiba, Tokyo, Japan
Also known As
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Shinsuke Ogawa
Biography
Shinsuke Ogawa (小川紳介, Ogawa Shinsuke) (25 June 1935 - 7 February 1992) was a Japanese documentary film director. Ogawa and Noriaki Tsuchimoto have been called the "two figures [that] tower over the landscape of Japanese documentary." Ogawa began his career at Iwanami Productions (Iwanami Eiga) making PR (public relations) films alongside other important directors such as Tsuchimoto, Kazuo Kuroki, Yōichi Higashi, and Susumu Hani. Turning independent, he first made documentaries about radical political movements in 1960s and 1970s Japan, most famously the "Sanrizuka" or "Narita" series, which recorded the struggle by farmers and student prote...
Acting
1973
as Narrator
1981
as Himself
1991
as Self
2002
as Himself
Production
1958
as Producer
1957
as Producer
1973
as Director
1982
as Director
1991
as Editor
2001
as Director
1978
as Producer
1978
as Editor
1987
as Director
1971
as Director
1962
as Assistant Director
1967
as Director
1975
as Director
1970
as Director
1977
as Director
1970
as Director
1967
as Director
1977
as Director
1972
as Director
1978
as Director
1966
as Director
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