Teinosuke Kinugasa
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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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Who is Teinosuke Kinugasa?+
Teinosuke Kinugasa was a pioneering Japanese actor and film director who began his career specializing in traditional female roles before transitioning to landmark silent and historical cinema.
What is Teinosuke Kinugasa known for?+
He is best known for directing the avant-garde silent film A Page of Madness and the Cannes Palme d'Or winner Gate of Hell. Films on Mood.
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He directed expressionistic silent dramas and classical Japanese historical jidaigeki epics.