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.
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Directing (42 movies)
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
1932
Gate of Hell
1953
Benten kozo
1928
The Siege of Osaka
1937
A Page of Madness
1926
Crossroads
1928
With a Single Sword Bale
1934
Reimei izen
1931
Bronze Magician
1963
Lantern Under a Full Moon
1951
Four Love Stories
1947
Two Little Birds
1923
An Actor's Revenge
1935
Dedication of the Great Buddha
1952
The Snowy Heron
1958
Genpei the Carp
1933
The Sun
1925
Two Lanterns
1933
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1932
Kanchō umi no bara
1945
Secret of Naruto
1957
Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen
1936
Actress
1947
The Little Runaway
1966
The Snake Princess
1940
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
1956
Floating Vessel
1957
Lord for a Night
1946
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
1955
When Women Lie
1963
Blind Devotion
1961
Okoto and Sasuke
1961
Stop the Old Fox
1959
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
Demon Thistle
1927
Konishi Junsa
1922
Zoku Hebihimesama
1940
The Song Lantern
1960
The Romance of Yushima
1955
Jōen
1959
Chronicles of a Sea Country
1928