Teinosuke Kinugasa

Kinugasa Teinosuke (Japanese衣 笠 贞 之 助; * January 1, 1896 in Mie Prefecture, † February 26, 1982 in Kyoto ) was a Japanese film director. He is one of the pioneers of Japanese cinema and is regarded as a stylistic trailblazer for Akira Kurosawa and others.

Kinugasa began as a performer of female roles, before he had made ​​his directorial debut in 1922. Among his most famous early films include the 1926 silent film resulting Kurutta Ippēji who, together with his film Jujiro (1928 ) is one of the few remaining Japanese films of the 1920s. Kinugasa himself found the previously applicable as missing 1971 movie in his house. In expressive image sequences and without intertitles Kinugasa depicts the subjective perception of the inmates of a lunatic asylum, and there gambling history.

His film The Gates of Hell ( Jigokumon ) in 1953 was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1954 and received at the Academy Awards in 1955 including the prize for best foreign language film.