Teinosuke Kinugasa

(1 January 1896 - 26 February 1982) was a Japanese film director. He was born in Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for "Jigokumon" ("The Gate of Hell").

He was among the pioneers of Japanese film, known in the West as the founder who paved the way for Akira Kurosawa, and others.

His best known film - "A Page of Madness" (1926), also called "A Crazy Page", or "A Page Out of Order" was lost for fifty years, before the director rediscovered it in his shed in 1971. From the silent film era, he released it with a new print and score, to world acclaim. He also directed the film "Jujiro" (known as "Crossways", "Crossroads", and "Slums of Tokyo" in English) in 1928.

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* [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0033090.htm Kinugasa's JMDb Listing] (jp icon)
* [http://www.horror-house.jp/e/cat2/teinosuke-kinugasa18961982.html Teinosuke Kinugasa's grave]