Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 æƒ ä»‹, 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 YasujirÅ 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, YasujirÅ Ozu.
Keisuke Kinoshita Biography / Wiki
| Name | Keisuke Kinoshita |
| Also Know | 木下æ£å‰ (本å), 木下æµä»‹, КÑйÑÐºÑ ÐšÐ¸Ð½Ð¾Ñьта, КÑйÑÑƒÐºÑ ÐšÐ¸Ð½Ð¾Ñита, КÑйÑÐºÑ ÐšÐ¸Ð½Ð¾Ñита, 키노시타 ì¼€ì´ìŠ¤ì¼€, 기노시타 ì¼€ì´ìŠ¤ì¼€ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Shizuoka, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1912-12-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 86 |
| Deathday | 1998-12-30 |
Keisuke Kinoshita Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| I Lived, But… | Self | 1983-10-29 | An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both i… |
Keisuke Kinoshita Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Twenty-Four Eyes | Director | 1954-09-15 | Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming…. |
| A Japanese Tragedy | Director | 1953-06-17 | At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with… |
| Port of Flowers | Director | 1943-07-29 | The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan bac… |
| Here’s to the Young Lady | Director | 1949-03-09 | A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage…. |
| Carmen Comes Home | Director | 1951-03-21 | A girl who’d left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal…. |
| Sing, Young People | Director | 1963-01-06 | A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star…. |
| Phoenix | Director | 1947-12-11 | A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband…. |
| She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Director | 1955-11-29 | Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan…. |
| Boyhood | Director | 1951-05-12 | When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community…. |
| Apostasy | Director | 1948-11-30 | A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing…. |
| The Portrait | Director | 1948-08-03 | The mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an artist paints her portrait…. |
| Morning for the Osone Family | Director | 1946-02-21 | A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII…. |
| The Ballad of Narayama | Director | 1958-06-01 | In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in… |
| Woman | Director | 1948-04-02 | Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she’d join him more frequently, but she detests his crimin… |
| A Legend, or Was It? | Director | 1963-08-11 | A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader’s son, but her siblings disapprove…. |
| Jubilation Street | Director | 1944-06-08 | The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye…. |
| Army | Director | 1944-12-07 | A widow raises her sickly son to be strong enough to join the army and fight on the front lines…. |
| The Snow Flurry | Director | 1959-01-03 | After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child…. |
| The Rose on His Arm | Director | 1956-11-14 | Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza…. |
| Farewell to Dream | Director | 1956-04-17 | A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmonger… |
| Children of Nagasaki | Director | 1983-09-16 | August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family…. |
| The Tattered Wings | Director | 1955-08-31 | A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she’s seen with her intense, no-nonsense chi… |
| Carmen’s Innocent Love | Director | 1952-11-13 | Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles…. |
| Big Joys, Small Sorrows | Director | 1986-06-28 | A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father…. |
| Broken Drum | Director | 1949-12-01 | When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord… |
| Danger Stalks Near | Director | 1957-12-01 | The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob…. |
| The Eternal Rainbow | Director | 1958-10-28 | Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker…. |
| Farewell to Spring | Director | 1959-04-28 | Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were…. |
| Father | Director | 1988-04-29 | A middle-aged man’s family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life…. |
| Fireworks Over the Sea | Director | 1951-10-25 | A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced…. |
| The Garden of Women | Director | 1954-03-16 | A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines…. |
| The Girl I Loved | Director | 1946-10-29 | A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festiva… |
| The Good Fairy | Director | 1951-02-17 | Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future…. |
| The Living Magoroku | Director | 1943-11-18 | A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son’s illness…. |
| Oh, My Son! | Director | 1979-09-15 | A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims’ families…. |
| The River Fuefuki | Director | 1960-10-19 | In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over… |
| Spring Dreams | Director | 1960-01-03 | When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous frien… |
| Thus Another Day | Director | 1959-09-27 | A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out t… |
| Wedding Ring | Director | 1950-07-01 | A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness…. |
| Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 | Director | 1949-07-05 | Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely d… |
| Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 | Director | 1949-07-16 | Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil… |
| The Young Rebels | Director | 1980-09-20 | A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents…. |
| Times of Joy and Sorrow | Director | 1957-10-01 | The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife…. |
| The Scent of Incense | Director | 1964-05-24 | After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d… |
| The Lights of Asakusa | Assistant Director | 1937-12-02 | Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels – a striking backdrop for Shimazu’s story of innocence and experience. Pr… |
| Eyes, the Sea and a Ball | Director | 1967-09-30 | An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His … |
| Marriage | Director | 1947-03-18 | In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat…. |
| Ballad of a Workman | Director | 1962-08-12 | A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to… |
| Love and Separation in Sri Lanka | Director | 1976-05-29 | A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an es… |
| Immortal Love | Director | 1961-09-16 | The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son, who has returned from the war with a… |
| This Year’s Love | Director | 1962-01-14 | Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru’s elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro’s elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Alt… |
| Director | … | ||
Keisuke Kinoshita Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Wedding Ring | Producer | 1950-07-01 | A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness…. |
| The River Fuefuki | Producer | 1960-10-19 | In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over… |
| Sing, Young People | Executive Producer | 1963-01-06 | A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star…. |
| A Legend, or Was It? | Producer | 1963-08-11 | A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader’s son, but her siblings disapprove…. |
| Immortal Love | Producer | 1961-09-16 | The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son, who has returned from the war with a… |
| Dodes’ka-den | Executive Producer | 1970-10-01 | This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances… |
| Ballad of a Workman | Producer | 1962-08-12 | A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Twenty-Four Eyes | Screenplay | 1954-09-15 | Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming…. |
| Woman | Writer | 1948-04-02 | Like many women after the war, Toshiko works as a chorus girl; her boyfriend Tadashi wishes she’d join him more frequently, but she detests his crimin… |
| The Rose on His Arm | Writer | 1956-11-14 | Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza…. |
| Children of Nagasaki | Writer | 1983-09-16 | August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family…. |
| Children of Nagasaki | Original Story | 1983-09-16 | August 9, 1945. An atomic bomb drops on Urakami, Nagasaki at 11:02am. The story of Dr. Nagai and his family…. |
| Carmen’s Innocent Love | Screenplay | 1952-11-13 | Carmen falls in love with an artist in this sequel to Carmen Comes Home. The film is noted for being entirely shot with canted (Dutch) camera angles…. |
| Big Joys, Small Sorrows | Writer | 1986-06-28 | A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father…. |
| Broken Drum | Story | 1949-12-01 | When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord… |
| Broken Drum | Screenplay | 1949-12-01 | When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into unsatisfying marriages and careers in ord… |
| The Eternal Rainbow | Writer | 1958-10-28 | Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker…. |
| Father | Writer | 1988-04-29 | A middle-aged man’s family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life…. |
| Fireworks Over the Sea | Screenplay | 1951-10-25 | A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced…. |
| The Garden of Women | Writer | 1954-03-16 | A student at a woman’s university takes a controversial action against the school’s old-fashioned doctrines…. |
| The Girl I Loved | Screenplay | 1946-10-29 | A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festiva… |
| The Girl I Loved | Story | 1946-10-29 | A young man who is unable to tell his childhood friend how he feels makes a pledge with her to reveal all of their secrets during the upcoming festiva… |
| The Good Fairy | Screenplay | 1951-02-17 | Two journalists and their lovers share an uncertain future…. |
| Oh, My Son! | Writer | 1979-09-15 | A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims’ families…. |
| The River Fuefuki | Screenplay | 1960-10-19 | In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over… |
| Thus Another Day | Writer | 1959-09-27 | A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out t… |
| Wedding Ring | Screenplay | 1950-07-01 | A jewelry store president begins to fall for the doctor treating her husband’s illness…. |
| The Young Rebels | Writer | 1980-09-20 | A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents…. |
| Times of Joy and Sorrow | Writer | 1957-10-01 | The story of the trials and tribulations of a lighthouse keeper and his wife…. |
| The Scent of Incense | Writer | 1964-05-24 | After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life d… |
| Dora-heita | Screenplay | 2000-05-13 | A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents’ own misperceptions a… |
| Love Letter | Screenplay | 1953-12-13 | A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people…. |
| Spring Dreams | Screenplay | 1960-01-03 | When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous frien… |
| Green Light to Joy | Screenplay | 1967-12-06 | Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college…. |
| Once a Rainy Day | Original Story | 1966-10-01 | Former playmates (Naito and Tamura), both long ago abandoned by their parents, recall their youth and fall in love…. |
| The Ballad of Narayama | Writer | 1958-06-01 | In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in… |
| Danger Stalks Near | Screenplay | 1957-12-01 | The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob…. |
| A Legend, or Was It? | Screenplay | 1963-08-11 | A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader’s son, but her siblings disapprove…. |
| The Living Magoroku | Writer | 1943-11-18 | A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son’s illness…. |
| Phoenix | Screenplay | 1947-12-11 | A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband…. |
| Carmen Comes Home | Screenplay | 1951-03-21 | A girl who’d left her hometown for the exciting adventure of the big city returns home years later for a visit, soon somehow causing scandal…. |
| Eyes, the Sea and a Ball | Screenplay | 1967-09-30 | An inspirational teacher is the focus of this Japanese drama. After his friend kills himself, Natsuki takes a teaching job on an isolated island. His … |
| Ai to chie no wa | Screenplay | 1956-04-11 | … |
| The Spy Has Not Died Yet | Screenplay | 1942-04-23 | … |
| Love and Separation in Sri Lanka | Writer | 1976-05-29 | A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an es… |
| Farewell to Spring | Screenplay | 1959-04-28 | Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were…. |
| This Year’s Love | Writer | 1962-01-14 | Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru’s elder brother Tadashi fell in love with Ichiro’s elder sister, Mikako at first sight. Alt… |
| She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum | Screenplay | 1955-11-29 | Now an old man, Masao returns to his childhood home and begins to recall his upbringing in this abandoned sector of Japan…. |
| Children of Izu | Screenplay | 1962-11-21 | … |
| The Snow Flurry | Screenplay | 1959-01-03 | After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child…. |
| Immortal Love | Screenplay | 1961-09-16 | The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son, who has returned from the war with a… |
| The Tattered Wings | Screenplay | 1955-08-31 | A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she’s seen with her intense, no-nonsense chi… |
| Sincere Heart | Screenplay | 1953-01-29 | A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar…. |
| Marriage | Story | 1947-03-18 | In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family’s in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat…. |
| A Japanese Tragedy | Screenplay | 1953-06-17 | At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with… |
| Five Siblings | Idea | 1939-07-20 | A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors … |
| Five Siblings | Writer | 1939-07-20 | A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors … |
| Otoko no iki | Writer | 1942-07-09 | This was 1942, so it was a national policy film, no matter what you call it. But when the war was still on the winning side, there wasn’t even a littl… |
| Ballad of a Workman | Screenplay | 1962-08-12 | A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to… |
| Boyhood | Screenplay | 1951-05-12 | When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community…. |
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