Daisuke ItÅ (film director)
Daisuke Itō (Japanese伊藤 大 辅; Daisuke Itō, born October 13, 1898 in Uwajima, Japan, † July 19, 1981, Japan ) was a Japanese screenwriter and film director.
Life
Itō Daisuke began in 1921 to work as a screenwriter. Three years later he took his first film directing. His main genre was the Jidai - geki ( samurai action film ), in which he incorporated contrary to all former conventions European novel narratives, creating avant-garde cinema in Japan. In addition to narrative technical innovations also camera work and montage of his films were inspired by Western models. From 1933 he turned talkies.
Ito's films showed the marriage of Japanese nationalism in the 1930s sympathy for the poor, whose situation he depicted realistically. During the war years from 1939 to 1945, he was not active. He then worked several times with the action star Bando Tsumasaburo. In 1950 he filmed Les Misérables with Sessue Hayakawa in the lead role. However, Itō was in the postwar period not repeat his success of the silent era. His last film was made in 1970.
1928 and 1931 he received a Kinema Junpo Award for the best film in each case.