
Biography
Daisuke Inoue (井上 大佑, Inoue Daisuke, born May 10, 1940) is a Japanese businessman best known as the inventor of a karaoke machine. Inoue, a musician in his youth employed in backing businesspeople who wanted to sing in bars, invented the machine as a means of allowing them to sing without live back-up. He did not patent the machine and so did not directly profit, but he continued to work in the industry it generated, including patenting a pesticide for karaoke machines. Named one of Time Magazines "Most Influential Asians of the Century" in 1999, he was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 and in 2005 was the subject of the Japanese biographical film Karaoke.
Recent studies have revealed the existence of several people who invented and commercialized karaoke machine prior to Inoue.
Filmography
All 26
Movies 26

Cyber Cop (1989)

Jack and the Beanstalk (1974)

Five Gents' Trick Book (1965)

Salaryman Shimizu Minato (1962)

Happiness of Us Alone (1961)

Song for a Bride (1958)

The Beauty Expert (1957)

Jacks and Jills (1956)

The President Talks Bank (1956)

Young Tree (1956)

The President's Boss (1956)

五十円横町 (1955)

Life of Geisha (1955)

Lovetide (1955)

Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker (1953)

Sunflower Girl (1953)

Husband and Wife (1953)

Tokyo Sweetheart (1952)

Third Class Executives (1952)

Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952)

Mr. Lucky (1952)

Wakôdo no uta (1951)

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre (1951)

The Idiot (1951)

Wakai musumetachi (1951)
