Ishido Toshiro

[Dario Tomasi]

Ciao bello, appena sai qualcosa fammi sapere de Ilmiolibro... perché il
tutto mi preoccupa non poco. Un  abbraccio


Il 5-12-2011 11:56, "Dick Stegewerns" <dick.stegewerns at xs4all.nl> ha
scritto:

> Dear all,
> 
> The Japanese media reported a few days ago that the scenario-writer
> Ishido Toshiro had passed away on 1 November.
> 
> Ishido entered Shochiku in 1955, where he worked under Shibuya Minoru,
> and was part of 'the group of seven'. This group of young assistant
> directors, including Oshima Nagisa and Yoshida Kiju, aimed to
> revolutionize Japanese cinema and started out by writing original
> scenarios. They were later mobilised by the studio to bring about the
> Shochiku Nouvelle Vague. Ishido was one of the few (the only one?) of
> the group not to become a director, instead focusing on
> scenario-writing. He made his debut with Oshima's 1960 The Sun's Burial
> and (co-)wrote the scenarios for Oshima's next three films. He quit
> Shochiku when 'Night and Fog in Japan' was pulled from the cinemas by
> the company and joined Oshima in the independent production company
> Sozosha. After starting out on his own in 1965 he worked on three
> scenarios for Yoshida Kiju (ao A Story written in Water), followed in
> the early 1970s by scenarios for three ATG films by Jissoji Akio (ao
> This Transient Life). In the 1960s and 1970s he mainly worked for
> television, including tokusatsu-series as Ultraman and the jidaigeki
> Hissatsu, sometimes appearing on screen himself. His last major
> contribution to the medium of film was his scenario of Imamura Shohei's
> Black Rain (1989), for which he received various awards. During the
> 1990s he functioned as president of the Scenario Writers Association and
> principal of Imamura's Nihon Eiga Gakko, but he was more known as an
> essayist. He died at the age of 79 due to cancer.
> 
> Dick Stegewerns
> 
>