Director

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Directing

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Directed movies: 26Directed series: 0All crew credits: 48

TMDB ID: 213471

IMDb ID: nm0455938

Known for: Directing

Born: January 1, 1896

Died: February 26, 1982

Age: 86

Place of birth: Kameyama, Mie, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1925 - 1976

Years active: 52

Average TMDB rating: 6.72

Wikidata: Q723042

Also known as

衣笠貞之助 • 키누가사 테이노스케 • 테이노스케 키누가사 • 기누가사 데이노스케 • 데이노스케 기누가사 • Тэйносукэ Кинугаса • Тэйноскэ Кинугаса

Frequent jobs

Director (26)Screenplay (12)Writer (9)Script Supervisor (1)

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Biography

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.