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, Kinugasa died at the age of 86. Description above from the Wikipedia article Teinosuke Kinugasa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed

1. A Page of Madness (1926) — Director
2. Gate of Hell (1953) — Director
3. Secret of Naruto (1957) — Director
4. Crossroads (1928) — Director
5. Bronze Magician (1963) — Director
6. Four Love Stories (1947) — Director
7. An Actor's Revenge (1935) — Director
8. The Snowy Heron (1958) — Director
9. The Little Runaway (1966) — Director
10. Three Women Around Yoshinaka (1956) — Director
11. Lord for a Night (1946) — Director
12. Tsukigata Hanpeita (1956) — Director
13. When Women Lie (1963) — Director
14. Stop the Old Fox (1959) — Director
15. Konishi Junsa (1922) — Director
16. The Romance of Yushima (1955) — Director
17. Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki (1932) — Director
18. Benten kozo (1928) — Director
19. The Siege of Osaka (1937) — Director
20. With a Single Sword Bale (1934) — Director
21. Reimei izen (1931) — Director
22. Lantern Under a Full Moon (1951) — Director
23. Two Little Birds (1923) — Director
24. Dedication of the Great Buddha (1952) — Director
25. Genpei the Carp (1933) — Director
26. The Sun (1925) — Director
27. Two Lanterns (1933) — Director
28. Kanchō umi no bara (1945) — Director
29. Actress (1947) — Director
30. The Snake Princess (1940) — Director
31. Floating Vessel (1957) — Director
32. A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love (1955) — Director
33. Blind Devotion (1961) — Director
34. Okoto and Sasuke (1961) — Director
35. The Battle of Kawanakajima (1941) — Director
36. Demon Thistle (1927) — Director
37. The Song Lantern (1960) — Director
38. Jōen (1959) — Director
39. Chronicles of a Sea Country (1928) — Director
40. The Loyal 47 Ronin (1932) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Konishi Junsa (1922)
2. The Living Corpse (1918)
3. Akatsuki (1918)