Genjiro Arato

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name = Genjiro Arato
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birth_date = birth date and age|1946|10|10
birth_place = Nagasaki, Japan
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occupation = film producer, director, actor.
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footnotes = nihongo|Genjiro Arato|荒戸 源次郎|"Arato Genjirō"|born October 10, 1946, in Nagasaki, Japan is a Japanese film producer, actor and director. In 1980, he produced "Zigeunerweisen" for director Seijun Suzuki. He was unable to secure exhibitors for the film and famously exhibited it himself in a specially-built, inflatable, mobile tent. The film won four Japanese Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and was voted the best Japanese film of the 1980s by Japanese critics.cite book
last = Rayns
first = Tony
authorlink = Tony Rayns
title = Branded to Thrill: The Delirious Cinema of Suzuki Seijun
publisher = Institute of Contemporary Arts
year = 1994
id = ISBN 0-905263-44-8
pages = p. 43
chapter = 1980: Zigeunerweisen]

Partial filmography

Producer

* 1980: "Zigeunerweisen" (ツィゴイネルワイゼン "Tsigoineruwaizen")
* 1981: "Kagero-za" (陽炎座 "Kagerō-za")
* 1989: "Knockout" (どついたるねん "Dotsuitarunen")
* 1990: "Tekken" (鉄拳)
* 1991: "Checkmate" (王手 "Ōte")
* 1991: "Yumeji" (夢二)
* 1992: "The Operating Room" (外科室 "Gekashitsu")
* 1994: "Tokarefu" (トカレフ)
* 2005: "The Whispering of the Gods" (ゲルマニウムの夜 "Gerumaniumu no yoru")

Director

* 1995: "The Girl of Silence" (ファザーファッカー "Fazā fakkā)
* 2003: "Akame 48 Waterfalls" (赤目四十八滝心中未遂 "Akame shijuya taki shinju misui")

References

External links

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* [http://wotg.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/5arato_genjiro/index.html Biography] at "The Whispering of the Gods" movie website
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