[KineJapan] Hasegawa Kazuhiko

[Aaron Gerow]

News reports say that the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hasegawa Kazuhiko died on January 31 at age 80. 

Hasegawa was a student at Todai, but left to train as an assistant director in Imamura Shohei’s production company. When work dried up there, he moved to Nikkatsu and served as AD or scriptwriter for a number of films. In the end, he only directed 2 films—The Youth Killer (1976) and The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)—but both are celebrated masterpieces that influenced a generation. The former is a Nakagami Kenji adaptation, and the latter is known not only for its wild atomic bomb story, but also for a script co-written by Leonard Schrader and for having both Somai Shinji and Kurosawa Kiyoshi in the crew. Hasegawa was also a member of Director's Company, a production team made up of film directors, but he himself never directed another theatrical film, even though there were many planned projects. His many fans were always waiting for the next movie. 

https://hochi.news/articles/20260201-OHT1T51414.html?page=1



Aaron Gerow
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