Teinosuke Kinugasa

Teinosuke Kinugasa was born on 1 January 1896 in Kameyama, in Mie Prefecture. He first played women's roles, on stage and then at Nikkatsu, and moved to directing when Japanese cinema began to use actresses. In 1926, he made with avant-garde writers a film that he believed lost and found in his storeroom in 1971. He then directed for Shōchiku, then large costume productions for Daiei, and died in Kyoto on 26 February 1982.

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