Keisuke Kinoshita
Keisuke Kinoshita (Japanese木 下 恵 介; Kinoshita Keisuke, born December 5, 1912 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, † December 30, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan ) was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Biography
His father ran a grocery store. Early on, he was enthusiastic about films and went to school for photography. From 1933 worked as a cameraman at the Shochiku studio, including Yasujiro Shimazu for. A few years later, he worked as an assistant director and published in 1943 with Hana saku minato its distinctive directorial debut, a comedy which humorously showed the difference between rural and urban people. After the propaganda film Rikugun he retreated to the end of World War II from the film business.
The breakthrough came in the '50s with comedies and dramas, which were usually accompanied by the music of his brother Chuji Kinoshita. Especially Carmen returns home, the first Japanese feature film in color, and the anti-war film Twenty-four eyes were very successful in Japan. His film Eien no hito 1962 was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar in the category. In 1964, he got out of the studio Shochiku and devoted himself to television series and films. From Sri Lanka no ai to wakare, which opened in 1976, he again led mainly directed movies. In 1991, he became the Bunka Kōrōsha, the person with special cultural merits, appointed.
In 1998, he died at the age of 86 of a stroke.