Task: Question Answering
Input (English): Context: An actor (or actress for females; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre, or in modern mediums such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is, literally "one who answers". The actor's interpretation of their role pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art, or, more commonly; to act, is to create, a character in performance., Biography.
Kinugasa was among the pioneers of Japanese film, but began his career as an actor specializing in female roles (onnagata) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese cinema began using actresses in the early 1920s, he switched to directing and worked for such producers as Shozo Makino before going independent to make his best known film, "A Page of Madness" (1926). Also called "A Crazy Page", or "A Page Out of Order", it was lost for 45 years before the director rediscovered it in his shed in 1971. A silent film, Kinugasa released it with a new print and score to world acclaim. He also directed the film "Jujiro" (known as "Crossways", "Crossroads", and "Slums of Tokyo" in English) in 1928. He directed jidaigeki at the Shochiku studios, where he helped establish the career of Chjir Hayashi (later known as Kazuo Hasegawa). After the war, he helmed big-budget costume productions for Daiei studios., Filmography.
Filmography of Kazuo Hasegawa include (incomplete):, Yasunari Kawabata, who would win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, was credited on the film with the original story. He is often cited as the film's screenwriter, and a version of the scenario is printed in his complete works, but the scenario is now considered a collaboration between Kawabata, Kinugasa, Banko Sawada, and Minoru Inuzuka. Eiji Tsuburaya is credited as an assistant cameraman., Jujiro (  Jjiro ) , also known as Crossroads , Crossways , Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo , is a 1928 silent Japanese film drama directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa ., Onnagata or oyama (Japanese: , "woman-role"), are male actors who played women's roles in Japanese Kabuki theatre. The modern all-male kabuki was originally known as "yar kabuki" ("man kabuki") to distinguish it from earlier forms. In the early 17th century, shortly after the emergence of the genre, many kabuki theaters had an all-female cast ("onna kabuki"), with women playing men's roles as necessary. "Wakash kabuki" ("adolescent-boy kabuki"), with a cast composed entirely of attractive young men playing both male and female roles, and frequently dealing in erotic themes, originated circa 1612., Shareholders are Nippon Television Holdings (35%) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (28.4%)., Types of "jidaigeki".
Many "jidaigeki" take place in Edo, the military capital. Others show the adventures of people wandering from place to place. The long-running television series "Zenigata Heiji" and "Abarenb Shgun" typify the Edo "jidaigeki". "Mito Kmon", the fictitious story of the travels of the historical daimyo Tokugawa Mitsukuni, and the "Zatoichi" movies and television series, exemplify the traveling style., History.
As Shochiku Kinema.
The company was founded in 1895, which makes it the oldest company in Japan involved in film production. Founded by the brothers Takejir tani () and Matsujir Shirai (), it was originally a "kabuki" production company, and was named Matsutake in 1902 after the combined "kunyomi" reading of the "kanji" "take" (bamboo) and "matsu" (pine) from their names, reflecting the traditional three symbols of happiness, bamboo, pine, and plum. The name was changed in 1937 to the "onyomi" reading of "Shchiku"., Subject: jujiro, Relation: instance_of, Options: (A) 1937 (B) biography (C) budget (D) century (E) cinema (F) company (G) corporation (H) director (I) drama (J) edo (K) film (L) filmography (M) history (N) kabuki (O) nobel prize (P) order (Q) page (R) people (S) performance (T) prize (U) radio (V) role (W) series (X) show (Y) silent film (Z) sky ([) television (\) television series (]) terminology (^) three
Output (English): silent film