Inoue Umetsugu

[Jasper Sharp]

This is sad. Inoue seems to have been a sadly neglected filmmaker by most foreign commentators, but I think is career in Hong Kong is interesting enough in itself - Hong Kong Nocturne and the rest of the series of musicals he made for Shaw are wonderfully exuberent little films, while his version of Black Lizard, made before the Fukasaku one and starring Machiko Kyo, proves that his Japanese work wasnt so far removed from his Hong Kong work.

 

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> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:07:57 +0900
> From: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Inoue Umetsugu
> 
> The Asahi reports this morning that the film director and screenwriter 
> Inoue Umetsugu passed away on February 11, 2010, of a cerebral 
> hemorrhage at the age of 86. Inoue graduated from Keio University and 
> entered Shintoho at 1947, debuting as a director in 1952. When 
> Nikkatsu returned to film production, Inoue moved there in 1955 and 
> became one of the main directors of Nikkatsu Action, working with 
> Ishihara Yujiro on Arashi o yobu otoko, Washi to taka, and other hits. 
> He turned freelance in 1960 and worked at most of the studios, doing 
> everything from melodrama to gang films, but those studying Hong Kong 
> cinema have recently focused on the fact that the mid-1960s he was 
> invited by Shaw Brothers to come to Hong Kong to direct films. He is 
> thus a central figure connecting Japanese cinema with Hong Kong film. 
> Inoue was skilled not only at action cinema, but also musicals, 
> working with major music stars even into the 1980s, when he made films 
> for Johnny's. He also worked a lot on television. His wife was the 
> actress Tsukioka Yumeji.
> 
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