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木下正吉 (本名), 木下恵介, Кэйскэ Киносьта, Кэйсукэ Киносита, Кэйскэ Киносита, 키노시타 케이스케, 기노시타 케이스케
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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1912-12-03
- event Death Date 1998-12-30
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 2.7
- info Birth Place Shizuoka, Japan
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Keisuke Kinoshita
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A Japanese Tragedy
1953-06-17
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Twenty-Four Eyes
1954-09-15
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Twenty-Four Eyes
1954-09-15
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A Japanese Tragedy
1953-06-17
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Phoenix
1947-12-11
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Here's to the Young Lady
1949-03-09
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Carmen Comes Home
1951-03-21
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Morning for the Osone Family
1946-02-21
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955-11-29
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Sing, Young People
1963-01-06
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Boyhood
1951-05-12
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Apostasy
1948-11-30
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The Portrait
1948-08-03
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The Ballad of Narayama
1958-06-01
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Kiriko no unmei
1962-05-27
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Farewell to Dream
1956-04-17
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Woman
1948-04-02
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A Legend, or Was It?
1963-08-11
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Jubilation Street
1944-06-08
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Army
1944-12-07
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Children of Nagasaki
1983-09-16
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Children of Nagasaki
1983-09-16
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Children of Nagasaki
1983-09-16
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The Snow Flurry
1959-01-03
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The Rose on His Arm
1956-11-14
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Five Siblings
1939-07-20
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Five Siblings
1939-07-20
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Otoko no iki
1942-07-09
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The Tattered Wings
1955-08-31
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Carmen's Innocent Love
1952-11-13
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Carmen's Innocent Love
1952-11-13
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows
1986-06-28
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows
1986-06-28
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Broken Drum
1949-12-01
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Broken Drum
1949-12-01
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Broken Drum
1949-12-01
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Danger Stalks Near
1957-12-01
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The Eternal Rainbow
1958-10-28
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The Eternal Rainbow
1958-10-28
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Farewell to Spring
1959-04-28
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Father
1988-04-29
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Father
1988-04-29
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Fireworks Over the Sea
1951-10-25
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Fireworks Over the Sea
1951-10-25
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The Garden of Women
1954-03-16
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The Girl I Loved
1946-10-29
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The Girl I Loved
1946-10-29
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The Girl I Loved
1946-10-29
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The Good Fairy
1951-02-17
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The Good Fairy
1951-02-17
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The Living Magoroku
1943-11-18
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Oh, My Son!
1979-09-15
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The River Fuefuki
1960-10-19
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The River Fuefuki
1960-10-19
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Spring Dreams
1960-01-03
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Thus Another Day
1959-09-27
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Wedding Ring
1950-07-01
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Wedding Ring
1950-07-01
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
1949-07-05
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Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
1949-07-16
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The Young Rebels
1980-09-20
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The Young Rebels
1980-09-20
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
1957-10-01
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Times of Joy and Sorrow
1957-10-01
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The Scent of Incense
1964-05-24
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The Scent of Incense
1964-05-24
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The Scent of Incense
1964-05-24
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Children on the Island
1987-07-11
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The Lights of Asakusa
1937-12-02
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Port of Flowers
1943-07-29
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Ballad of a Workman
1962-08-12
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Ballad of a Workman
1962-08-12
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Boyhood
1951-05-12
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Dora-heita
2000-05-13
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
1967-09-30
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The Tattered Wings
1955-08-31
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Marriage
1947-03-18
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Sincere Heart
1953-01-29
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Marriage
1947-03-18
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Okoto and Sasuke
1935-06-15
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Wedding Ring
1950-07-01
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Spring Dreams
1960-01-03
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Love Letter
1953-12-13
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The River Fuefuki
1960-10-19
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While Yet a Wife
1965-01-01
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Woman
1948-04-02
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Green Light to Joy
1967-12-06
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Ballad of a Workman
1962-08-12
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Once a Rainy Day
1966-10-01
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The Ballad of Narayama
1958-06-01
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Dolls floating down the river
1962-03-03
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Sing, Young People
1963-01-06
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1976-05-29
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Danger Stalks Near
1957-12-01
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The Garden of Women
1954-03-16
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かあちゃんしぐのいやだ
1961-05-26
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A Legend, or Was It?
1963-08-11
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A Legend, or Was It?
1963-08-11
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The Living Magoroku
1943-11-18
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Immortal Love
1961-09-16
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Immortal Love
1961-09-16
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Phoenix
1947-12-11
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Thus Another Day
1959-09-27
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Oh, My Son!
1979-09-15
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
1967-09-30
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Ai to chie no wa
1956-04-11
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Carmen Comes Home
1951-03-21
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Dodes'ka-den
1970-10-31
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The Spy Has Not Died Yet
1942-04-23
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Love and Separation in Sri Lanka
1976-05-29
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Farewell to Spring
1959-04-28
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This Year's Love
1962-01-14
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This Year's Love
1962-01-14
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
1955-11-29
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Children of Izu
1962-11-21
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The Snow Flurry
1959-01-03
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Immortal Love
1961-09-16
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
1967-09-30
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The Rose on His Arm
1956-11-14
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Mom’s Shoulders
1971-06-01
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Mom’s Shoulders
1971-06-01
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Oyaji Daiko
1968-01-16
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Oyaji Daiko
1968-01-16
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World of Two
1970-12-01
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World of Two
1970-12-01
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Brother
1969-10-21
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Ashita Kara no Koi
1970-04-21
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Taiyō no Namida
1971-12-07
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Taiyō no Namida
1971-12-07
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Kōfuku Sōdan
1972-06-06
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Kōfuku Sōdan
1972-06-06
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Wagako wa Tanin
1974-04-03
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Wagako wa Tanin
1974-04-03
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日本名作童話シリーズ 赤い鳥のこころ
1979-02-05
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Omoi Bashi
1973-04-03
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Taiyō no Namida
1971-12-07
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Oyaji Daiko
1968-01-16
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World of Two
1970-12-01
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Family of Three
1968-10-15
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Brother
1969-10-21
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Ashita Kara no Koi
1970-04-21
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Mom’s Shoulders
1971-06-01