Keisuke Kinoshita

Keisuke Kinoshita

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1912-12-03
Deathday: 1998-12-30 (86 years old)

Biography

Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介, Kinoshita Keisuke, December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director.


Hugely popular in his home country of Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita worked tirelessly as a director for nearly half a century, making lyrical, sentimental films that often center on the inherent goodness of people, especially in times of distress. He began his directing career during a most challenging time for Japanese cinema: World War II, when the industry’s output was closely monitored by the state and often had to be purely propagandistic. He refused to be bound by genre, technique, or dogma. Kinoshita excelled in almost every genre: comedy, tragedy, social dramas, period films. He shot all films on location or in a one-house set. He pursued severe photographic realism with the long take, long-shot method, and went equally far toward stylization with fast cutting, intricate wipes, tilted cameras, and even classical scroll-painting and Kabuki stage technique.


Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket." While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu, he was a household figure in his home country, beloved by both critics and audiences from the 1940s to the 1960s.


Although few concrete details have emerged about Kinoshita's personal life, his homosexuality was widely known in the film world. Screenwriter and frequent collaborator Yoshio Shirasaka recalls the "brilliant scene" Kinoshita made with the handsome, well-dressed assistant directors he surrounded himself with. His 1959 film Farewell to Spring (Sekishuncho) has been called "Japan's first gay film" for the emotional intensity depicted between its male characters.


Kinoshita received the Order of the Rising Sun in 1984 and was awarded the Order of Culture in 1991 by the Japanese government. He died on December 30, 1998, of a stroke. His grave is in Engaku-ji in Kamakura, very near to that of his fellow Shochiku director, Yasujirō Ozu.

Filmography

all 80

Movies 69

Director 54

Writer 14

TV Shows 11

Producer 4

Creator 3

Screenplay 3

self 1

Creator / Director
Wagako wa Tanin

Wagako wa Tanin (1974)

TV
Creator / Producer
Kōfuku Sōdan

Kōfuku Sōdan (1972)

TV
Creator / Producer / Director
Mom’s Shoulders

Mom’s Shoulders (1971)

TV
Creator / Producer / Director
World of Two

World of Two (1970)

TV
Executive Producer
Dodes'ka-den

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

Movie
5
Creator / Director
Ashita Kara no Koi

Ashita Kara no Koi (1970)

TV
Creator / Director
Brother

Brother (1969)

TV
Creator / Writer
Oyaji Daiko

Oyaji Daiko (1968)

TV
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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1912-12-03

Deathday
1998-12-30 (86 years old)

Birth Place
Shizuoka, Japan

Siblings
Chūji Kinoshita, Yoshiko Kusuda

Citizenships
Japan

Also Known As
木下正吉 (本名), 木下恵介, Кэйскэ Киносьта, Кэйсукэ Киносита, Кэйскэ Киносита, 키노시타 케이스케, 기노시타 케이스케

Awards
Mainichi Film Award for Best Screenplay, Mainichi Film Award for Best Director, Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class, Medal with Purple Ribbon, Person of Cultural Merit

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