Masashige Narusawa ( ja, 成沢昌茂, ''Narusawa Masashige''; 29 January 1925 – 13 February 2021) was a Japanese screenwriter and director.

Biography

Narusawa was best known for writing screenplays for the last films of director

Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter, who directed about one hundred films during his career between 1923 and 1956. His most acclaimed works include ''The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums'' (1939), '' The Life of Oharu'' (1952), ''Ugets ...

, including ''

The Woman in the Rumor , also titled ''The Crucified Woman'' or ''The Woman of the Rumor'', is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Plot Widow Hatsuko maintains a successful tayū (highest class of courtesans) house in Kyoto. She is having a discreet ...

'', ''

Princess Yang Kwei Fei is a 1955 Japanese historical film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It was a co-production between Daiei Film and Shaw & Sons, Hong Kong (later Shaw Brothers). It is one of Mizoguchi's two colour films, the other being '' Tales of the Taira Clan'', ...

'', '' Shin Heike Monogatari'', and ''

Street of Shame is a 1956 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. It is the personal tales of several Japanese women of different backgrounds who work together in a brothel. It was Mizoguchi's last film. The film is based on the novel '' Su ...

''. He directed six films and wrote over 80 screenplays between 1949 and 1975. Masashige Narusawa died in

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on 13 February 2021 at the age of 96.

Filmography

Screenwriter

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The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa is a novel by the Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata. It was originally serialized in a newspaper before eventually being compiled into a novel in 1930. Plot In the 1920s, Asakusa was to Tokyo what Montmartre had been to 1890s Paris, Alexanderp ...

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The Wild Geese ''The Wild Geese'' is a 1978 war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger. The screenplay concerns a group of mercenaries in Africa. It was the result of a long-held ambiti ...

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Love Under the Crucifix is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kinuyo Tanaka. Love Under the Crucifix is the last film Tanaka directed. The film was adapted from Tōkō Kon's novel '' Ogin-sama''. The film is a bittersweet love story between Sen no Rikyū's da ...

'' (1962) *'' Black Lizard'' (1968) *'' Curse of the Blood'' (1968)

Director

*'' Yojōhan monogatari: Shōfu shino'' (1966) *''

Portrait of Madame Yuki , also titled ''A Picture of Madame Yuki'', is a 1950 Japanese drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Plot Yuki Shinano, a descendant of the once powerful Shinano family, is living in an unhappy marriage with her husband Naoyuki. Although he tr ...

'' (1975)

Television

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The Scent of Incense is a 1964 Japanese drama film based on a novel by Sawako Ariyoshi and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Screened in two parts, it was one of Kinoshita's last cinema productions before working mainly for television. Plot Spanning in time from the Ru ...

'' (1965) *''

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'' (1970)

References

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