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Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介, Kinoshita Keisuke, December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa , Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu , he was a household figure in his home country, beloved by both critics and ...
Keisuke Kinoshita was born on 5 December 1912 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Twenty-Four Eyes (1954), The Ballad of Narayama (1958) and The Garden of Women (1954). He died on 30 December 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.
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Kinoshita Keisuke (born Dec. 5, 1912, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan—died Dec. 30, 1998, Tokyo) was one of Japan’s most popular motion-picture directors, known for satirical social comedies.
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Universally considered one of the greatest Japanese directors, Keisuke Kinoshita worked almost his entire career for Shochiku, the film studio most devoted to what the Japanese call shomin-geki, stories of everyday life; yet while Kinoshita’s fellow Shochiku director, Yasujiro Ozu, developed a rigorous, austere style that he perfected from ...
Mar 2, 2021 · Keisuke Kinoshita, World War II, drama, English-subtitles. Language. Japanese. Kinoshita’s first film after the end of World War II is a wrenching, superbly wrought tale about a liberal-minded Japanese family torn apart by war and imperialist politics.
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Aug 18, 2008 · One of the most awarded films in Japanese history, Twenty-Four Eyes was already a nostalgia piece when Keisuke Kinoshita directed it in 1954.
Keisuke Kinoshita, a pioneer in the Japanese film industry, has been recognized for his masterful storytelling that explores various facets of human nature and the socio-cultural environment of post-war Japan.
