Inuzuka Minoru

[Mark R. Harris]

This is quite possible -- according to the IMDB, Manoel de Oliveira, the
nearest competition age-wise one can think of, who will be 99 on December 11
(and is still an active director), didn't make his first feature *Aniki Bobo
* until 1942 (although he made documentary shorts in the Thirties). I'll be
interested to see if anyone comes up with another living director who made
features in the Twenties or even the Thirties.

Mark Harris


On 10/6/07, Alexander Jacoby <a_p_jacoby at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> ALEX
>
>
> *Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>* wrote:
>
> 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
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