Yuzo Kawashima

(4 February, 1918-11 June, 1963) was a notable Japanese filmmaker, most famous for making tragi-comic films dealing with the lives of lower-class Japanese people, especially those involved in petty crime or employed in red light districts. He was a key influence on the Shohei Imamura, who referred to him as "my teacher." Imamura later remade Kawashima's 1957 film "Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate" as "Eijanka".

Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Aomori and educated at Meiji University. Like many Japanese directors of the period, Kawashima was very prolific, completing 36 films during a career that only lasted 19 years.

Filmography

* 1957 - "Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate" (幕末太陽傳, Bakumatsu taiyoden)

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442929/ Yuzo Kawashima] at IMDB
* [http://www.fluctuat.net/915-Retrospective-Yuzo-Kawashima,915 Notes on a Kawashima Retrospective] (in French)
* [http://mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com/2007/02/graceful-brute-yuzo-kawashimas-elegant.html Review of Kawashima's Graceful Brute] at The House Next Door
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