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person_profile-Teinosuke Kinugasa

Teinosuke Kinugasa Died at age: 86

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Date of Birth:

Jan 01, 1896

Country of birth:

Japan

Died:

Feb 26, 1982

Biography of

Teinosuke Kinugasa

    Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell).

    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).

    On February 26, 1982, Kinugasa died at the age of 86.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Teinosuke Kinugasa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Teinosuke Kinugasa

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Filmography of

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Found 29 Movies in total

... 1966

... 1963

... 1963

... 1961

... 1961

... 1960

... 1959

... 1958

... 1958

... 1957

... 1957

... 1956

... 1956

... 1955

... 1955

Gate of Hell

Screenplay

... 1953

... 1951

Actress

Writer

... 1947

... 1947

... 1946

... 1941

... 1940

... 1937

... 1935

... 1933

Two Lanterns

Screenplay

... 1933

... 1932

... 1928

... 1926