Keisuke Kinoshita

Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介) was a film director.

## life

1912 (1912) December 5 , Shizuoka Prefecture, Hamamatsu City (now Hamamatsu City , Naka-ku, grocery store (at) Tenma-cho pickles father Shukichi engaged in the "Owariya" of production), the mother-Tama 8 Born as the 4th son of a human brother  . Shukichi was a person who made a fortune in his generation.

In 1919 (Taisho 8 ), entered Hamamatsu Hirotsugu High School (currently Hamamatsu City Motoshiro Elementary School ). I often watch movies while I am in school. After graduating from the spinning department of Hamamatsu Technical High School (currently Hamamatsu Technical High School ), he moved to Tokyo.

In 1933 ( Showa 8), after working at the Oriental Photography School , joined the development department of Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio . After that, he moved to the photography department and became an assistant to the photography engineer, Akira Kuwahara .

In 1936 (Showa 11), he moved to the newly created Shochiku Ofuna studio and was pulled out by Yasujiro Shimazu to become an assistant director of Shimazu, and was in charge of Shimazu's "The Lights of Asakusa" and Kozaburo Yoshimura 's " Warm Current ".

Received a convocation warrant in October 1940, and joined the Logistics Officer 3rd Regiment of the 13th Central Regiment in Nagoya in November  . He fought in various parts of China, but the following year he was admitted to a field hospital with left-sided Achilles tendonitis and left-eye corneal bleeding due to an accident during work, and was later repatriated and returned to Japan.

In 1943 (Showa 18), he made his directorial debut with " Hanasaki Minato " and won the Sadao Yamanaka Award with Akira Kurosawa, who will support the Japanese film industry as a lifelong rival .

In 1951 (Showa 26), he released " Carmen Comes Home ", Japan's first feature-length color movie, and won the NHK movie best ten first place and the Japan Movie Culture Award .

1954 The (1954) " Twenty-Four pupil "  in the Blue Ribbon Award Award, Mainichi Film Award Japan movie Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film award and the like. In the same year's Kinema Junpo Best Ten , the same work and " The Garden of Women " dominate Kurosawa's " Seven Samurai " in 1st and 2nd place.

In 1958 (Showa 33), " Narayama Setsuko " was announced. It was exhibited at the Venice International Film Festival and was said to be a leading candidate for the Golden Lion Award, but Hiroshi Inagaki 's " The Life of Matsu the Untamed " won the Golden Lion Award . However, this work was praised by filmmakers such as Francois Truffaut .

1964 (1964), " Koge " as his next of " gas-solid promise of the battlefield will be planning the" unfortunate the bailout, such as are from in doubt Shochiku side shelved for the box office on profitability, The relationship with the company deteriorates due to the fact that the studio's fraudulent accounting was struck. In the same year, he left Shochiku and established Keisuke Kinoshita Productions (later DREAMAX Terevision  ). He entered the TV drama world and produced many TV dramas at TBS , working on series such as " Kinoshita Keisuke Hour " and " Kinoshita Keisuke Human Song Series ".

In 1969 (Showa 44), he formed a joint production "Shiki no Kai" with Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa , and Masaki Kobayashi . It got a lot of attention, but the originally announced film by the four co-directors never came to fruition.

In 1976 (Showa 51), he returned to the film director with " Love and Flute and Drums in Sri Lanka " for the first time in nine years since " Lovely Flute and Drums " . These two works are produced by Toho .

Returned to Shochiku in 1979 (Showa 54).

In 1979 (Showa 54), he showed one side of the social problem with "My Son! My Son".

In 1981 (Showa 56), he wrote the script "Women's Battlefield" and planned to make it into a movie, but the production was canceled because the content was too dark from the company.

In 1987 (Showa 62), he published the script "Battlefield Firm Promise", which had been discontinued. A production project came out from China in collaboration with Shochiku, but the production was canceled again.

In 1991 (Heisei 3), he was elected as a Person of Cultural Merit .

1998 ( Heisei 10 years) December 30, 3 am 10 minutes, brain infarction for Tokyo , Minato-ku, died at his home in, was 86 years old. There are 49 movies that took a megaphone in his lifetime. After his death, he was awarded the Elan d'or Award Special Award for his achievements .

2012 ( Heisei 2012), birth 100 years to become this year, launched the "Kinoshita Keisuke 100th year project", commemorative screening events and DVD was released.

2013 ( Heisei 25 years) June 1 , Kinoshita of the episode as the base was during the war biopic " road of the beginning " (Director: Keiichi Hara ) has been published  .