Teinosuke Kinugasa

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-01-01 (86 years old)

Deathday

1982-02-26

Place of Birth

Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Biography

Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell). Kinugasa was among the pioneers of Japanese film, but began his career as an actor specializing in female roles (onnagata) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese cinema began using actresses in the early 1920s, he switched to directing and worked for such producers as Shozo Makino before going independent to make his best known film, A Page of Madness (1926). On February 26, 1982, Kinuga...

Production

1960

The Beloved Image

as Screenplay

1963

An Actor's Revenge

as Screenplay

1953

Gate of Hell

as Director

1928

Benten kozo

as Director

1937

1926

1926

1926

1937

The Siege of Osaka

as Screenplay

1928

Crossroads

as Writer

1928

Crossroads

as Director

1934

1931

Reimei izen

as Director

1963

Bronze Magician

as Director

1947

1923

Two Little Birds

as Director

1935

1960

What Price Love?

as Screenplay

1958

The Snowy Heron

as Director

1933

1933

Genpei the Carp

as Director

1955

1925

The Sun

as Director

1933

Two Lanterns

as Director

1933

Two Lanterns

as Screenplay

1960

Satan's Sword

as Screenplay

1960

The Song Lantern

as Screenplay

1932

1945

1957

Secret of Naruto

as Director

1947

Actress

as Director

1932

The Loyal 47 Ronin

as Screenplay

1976

1966

1940

1940

The Snake Princess

as Screenplay

1957

Floating Vessel

as Director

1946

Lord for a Night

as Director

1956

1963

When Women Lie

as Director

1961

1961

Blind Devotion

as Director

1961

Okoto and Sasuke

as Director

1959

Stop the Old Fox

as Director

1959

1923

Two Little Birds

as Screenplay

1927

Demon Thistle

as Director

1922

Konishi Junsa

as Director

1963

Bronze Magician

as Screenplay

1957

Floating Vessel

as Screenplay

1958

The Snowy Heron

as Screenplay

1962

The Lightning Sword

as Screenplay

1935

1947

Actress

as Writer

1958

The Barbarian and the Geisha

as Script Supervisor

1953

Gate of Hell

as Screenplay

1956

Tsukigata Hanpeita

as Screenplay

1955

Iroha Elegy

as Writer

1955

1956

Flowery Hood

as Writer

1940

1957

1960

The Song Lantern

as Director

1955

1957

Secret of Naruto

as Screenplay

1940

Zoku Hebihimesama

as Screenplay

1959

Jōen

as Director

1959

Jōen

as Screenplay

1959

Actor Shark

as Screenplay

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