Inuzuka Minoru

[Alexander Jacoby]

I was thinking of Oliveira, which is why I didn't say the thought that initially occured to me of "last director to have made silent films" - since Oliveira's short documentary Douro - Faina Fluvial (1931) is silent. Having said that, I could have said "Was Inuzuka the last director to have made silent features"?
   
  ALEX
   
   
  

"Mark R. Harris" <brokerharris at gmail.com> wrote:
    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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