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Hiromichi Horikawa was born on November 28, 1916 in Kyoto, Japan. He was a director and assistant director, known for Seven Samurai (1954), Ikiru (1952) and Throne of Blood (1957). He died on September 5, 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved his mentor’s fame. Kurosawa himself scripted his directorial debut, A Story of Fast-Growing Weeds (Asunaro monogatari, 1955), about an adolescent and the first three women in his life. A concern with youthful experience was also visible in Horikawa’s second and third films, Summer Eclipse (Nisshoku no natsu, 1956), a taiyōzoku (“sun tribe”) film based on a Shintarō Ishihara novel, and The Last Day of Oishi (“Genroku Chūshingura: Ōishi saigo no ichinichi” yori: Koto no tsume, 1957), a reworking of the Chūshingura story that focused particularly on the youngest of the participating ronin and his fiancée. Another retelling of a classical Japanese story was the Chikamatsu adaptation Oil Hell Murder (Onnagoroshi abura jigoku, 1957), but Horikawa returned to contemporary subject matter with The Naked General (Hadaka no taishō, 1958), a portrait of mentally handicapped collage artist Kiyoshi Yamashita. In this darkly humorous account of a stubborn non-conformist, Horikawa touched for the first time on the subject of World War II, ironically showing how the artist’s apparent madness enabled him to escape the draft. The melodrama Eternity of Love (Wakarete ikiru toki mo, 1961), tracing a woman’s unhappy marriages and affairs, also unfolded against a wartime backdrop. During the sixties, Horikawa made several thrillers: the socially conscious aspects of these films suggest the continuing influence of Kurosawa while also evoking Masaki Kobayashi, whose regular actor Tatsuya Nakadai appeared in TheBlueBeast (Aoiyajū, 1960) and PressureofGuilt (Shirotokuro, 1963). The former charted the rise and fall of a low-ranking executive who exploits both labor and management, while the latter was a tangled psychological thriller about an attorney who, having strangled his lover, faces a moral dilemma when another man confesses. Later, GoodbyeMoscow (SarabaMosukuwagurentai, 1968) used the relationship between a Japanese jazz pianist, an American soldier on leave from Vietnam, and a group of young Russian dissidents as a metaphor for Japan’s situation in the Cold War era. TheMilitarist (GekidōnoShōwashi:Gunbatsu, 1970) was a critical biopic of General Tōjō, which dramatized the military coup of February 26, 1936, while SunAbove,DeathBelow (Sogeki, 1968) was a conventional if snappily edited thriller about a doomed hitman.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1916-12-28
- event Death Date 2012-09-05
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 2.4
- info Birth Place Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
1964-08-14
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Mutchan
1985-07-21
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Asian Blue: Ukishima-maru Incident
1995-09-02
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The Last Judgment
1965-05-16
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Last Days of the Samurai
1957-07-13
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955-10-05
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Wedding March
1951-12-28
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The Alaska Story
1977-01-22
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War and Flowers
1989-05-11
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Wakarete ikiru toki mo
1961-04-04
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Wakarete ikiru toki mo
1961-04-04
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Seven Samurai
1954-04-26
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Have Wings on Your Heart
1978-10-14
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The Militarists
1970-09-11
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The Lost Alibi
1960-03-13
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Brand of Evil
1964-05-29
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Brand of Evil
1964-05-29
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The Blue Beast
1960-06-26
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Fumiko's Five Benefactors
1964-08-14
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Musume to watashi
1962-04-01
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Good-bye Moscow
1968-03-27
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Pressure of Guilt
1963-02-17
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Without Complaint
1975-02-01
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The Naked General
1958-10-28
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Have Wings on Your Heart
1978-10-14
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My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953-01-15
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Gakuen-sai no yoru: Amai taiken
1970-11-14
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Sun Above, Death Below
1968-11-23