<div>This is perhaps a somewhat trivial response, but Inuzuka's age was quite exceptional and I wondered - does this make him the last director to die anywhere in the world who actually directed feature films in the twenties?</div> <div> </div> <div>ALEX<BR><BR><BR><B><I>Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow@yale.edu></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I'm afraid I had missed this (a student mentioned it to me), but <BR>Inuzuka Minoru, the prolific director and screenwriter, died last month <BR>at the age of 106.<BR><BR>Inuzuka first entered in the industry in the 1920s as a screenwriter at <BR>Shochiku's Shimogamo studio, and it was his relation to that studio <BR>that brought him in contact with Kinugasa Teinosuke. He helped out on A <BR>Page of Madness and began directing under Kinugasa when that director <BR>began producing jidaigeki for Shochiku at Shimogamo. Inuzuka
directed <BR>over 50 films, mostly jidaigeki, but few of note. He wrote scripts for <BR>over 150 films, however, including many for hit films at Daiei such as <BR>Shiranui kengyo and numerous Zatoichi films.<BR><BR>He published his autobiography, Eiga wa kagero no gotoku, in 2002 after <BR>having passed the century mark.<BR><BR>Aaron Gerow<BR>KineJapan owner<BR><BR>Assistant Professor<BR>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<BR>Yale University<BR><BR>For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to<BR>listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu<BR>Kinema Club: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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