Teinosuke Kinugasa
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KINUGASA Teinosuke (Japanese: 衣笠貞之助) (born 1 January 1896 in Mie-ken, Japan; died 26 February 1982 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese film director. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palm d'Or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell).
He was among the pioneers of Japanese film, known in the West as the founder who paved the way for Akira Kurosawa, and others.
His best known film - A Page of Madness (~1921) , also called A Crazy Page, or A Page Out of Order was lost for fifty years, before the director rediscovered it in his shed in 1971. From the silent film era, he released it with a new print and score, to world acclaim. It is a standard study of early silent film.
External links
- Kinugasa's IMDb Listing (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455938/)
- Kinugasa's JMDb Listing (in Japanese) (http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0033090.htm)