Inuzuka Minoru

[Aaron Gerow]

I'm afraid I had missed this (a student mentioned it to me), but 
Inuzuka Minoru, the prolific director and screenwriter, died last month 
at the age of 106.

Inuzuka first entered in the industry in the 1920s as a screenwriter at 
Shochiku's Shimogamo studio, and it was his relation to that studio 
that brought him in contact with Kinugasa Teinosuke. He helped out on A 
Page of Madness and began directing under Kinugasa when that director 
began producing jidaigeki for Shochiku at Shimogamo. Inuzuka directed 
over 50 films, mostly jidaigeki, but few of note. He wrote scripts for 
over 150 films, however, including many for hit films at Daiei such as 
Shiranui kengyo and numerous Zatoichi films.

He published his autobiography, Eiga wa kagero no gotoku, in 2002 after 
having passed the century mark.

Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner

Assistant Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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