was a Japanese film director.
Biography
He is known for directing many
jidaigeki
is a genre of film, television, video game, and theatre in Japan. Literally meaning "period dramas", they are most often set during the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—'' Portrait of H ...
television dramas. In 1950, he joined the Daiei studio and started working as an assistant director. He made his director debut with ''Yureikoban'' in 1960. He directed a lot of jidaigeki television dramas from 1970s to 1980s.
In 1993, he directed
Lone Wolf and Cub
is a Japanese manga series created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. First published in 1970, the story was adapted into six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four plays, a television series starring Kinnosuke Yorozuya, and i ...
series film ''
Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict'', it was for the first time in 23 years he directed in the film.
Inoue died from a cerebral infarction and pneumonia on 9 January 2022, at the age of 93.
Selected filmography
Film
* ''Yurei Koban'' (1960) ) (First film Inoue directed.
)
*''
Zatoichi's Revenge
is a 1965 Japanese chambara film directed by Akira Inoue and starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi. It was originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (later acquired by Kadokawa Pictures).
''Zatoichi's Revenge'' is t ...
'' (1965)
* ''Dr.Strong-arm'' (1966)
* ''
Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess'' (1966)
* ''The Whimsy of Cupid'' (1967)
* ''An Invitation to Jail'' (1967)
* ''Rikugun Nakano gakko: Mitsumei'' (1967)
* ''Rikugun Nakano gakkô: Kaisen zen'ya'' (1968)
* ''Woman's Prison'7 (1968)
* ''Duel at the Quay aka Kanto onna yakuza'' (1968)
* ''Kanto onna do konjo'' (1969)
* ''
Lone Wolf and Cub: Final Conflict'' (1993)
* ''Konuka Ame'' (2017)
* ''Korosuna'' (2022)
Television
*
Nemuri Kyōshirō (TV series)
is a Japanese television jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1972 to 1973. It is based on series of Nemuri Kyōshirō novels by Renzaburō Shibata. Masakazu Tamura played the role of Nemuri Kyōshirō. Tamura's older bro ...
(1972) Episode 1, 6, 10, 12, 17, 18, 24, 26
*
Unmeitōge
is a Japanese jidaigeki or period drama that was broadcast in prime-time in 1974. It is based on Renzaburō Shibata's novel of the same title. The lead star is Masakazu Tamura.
Plot
Akizuki Rokurōta was born as a child of Tokugawa Ieyasu, but ...
(1974)
*
Zatoichi
is a fictional character created by Japanese novelist Kan Shimozawa. He is an itinerant blind masseur and swordsman of Japan's late Edo period (1830s and 1840s). He first appeared in the 1948 essay , part of Shimozawa's ''Futokoro Techō'' se ...
Monogatari (1974-78)
*
Nemuri Kyoshiro: Conspiracy at Edo Castle (1993)
*
Kawaite sōrō Hahawa Ikiteita? (1993)
*
Nemuri Kyoshiro: The Woman Who Loved Kyoshiro (1998)
*Kenkaku Shobai Sukedachi (2004)
References
External links
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1928 births
2022 deaths
People from Kyoto
Japanese film directors
Samurai film directors
Yakuza film directors
Deaths from pneumonia in Japan
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