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Kinugasa Teinosuke

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Jan. 1, 1896, Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Died:
Feb. 26, 1982, Kyōto (aged 86)
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Kinugasa Teinosuke (born Jan. 1, 1896, Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan—died Feb. 26, 1982, Kyōto) was the first Japanese motion-picture director to present his story from the point of view of one of the characters and thus create a subjective world in a film. He also pioneered in the use of flashbacks and in the creation of visual atmospheric effect. From 1917 to 1922 Kinugasa was an oyama, a male actor who played female roles. He directed his first picture in 1922. Five years later, he scored a commercial success with Kurutta ippeiji (1926; A Crazy Page). Because Kinugasa limited the ...(100 of 252 words)

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