was a Japanese

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

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. Starting out as a screenwriter at

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in 1924, he also participated in the production of

Teinosuke Kinugasa was a Japanese filmmaker. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for '' Gate of Hell''. Biography Kinugasa began his career as an onnagata (actor specializing in f ...

's ''

A Page of Madness is a 1926 Japanese silent film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Lost for 45 years until it was rediscovered by Kinugasa in his storehouse in 1971, the film is the product of an avant-garde group of artists in Japan known as the Shinkankakuha (o ...

''. When Chōjirō Hayashi (later known as

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) became a

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 Hel ...

star at Shochiku, Inuzuka directed many of his films. After World War II, Inuzuka returned to specializing in screenplays and was known for his scripts for the

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'' serie ...

series. He published his autobiography in 2002, and died in 2007 at the age of 106. When he died, he was called the last surviving director to have directed a silent film in the 1920s. Inuzuka wrote scripts for over 150 films and directed over 50.

Selected filmography

As director

*''Chigo no kenpō'' (稚児の剣法) (1927) *'' The Spell of the Sand Painting'' (砂絵呪縛 Sunae Shibari) (1927)

As screenwriter

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'' (狂った一頁 Kurutta Ichipeiji) (1926). *'' Tsukigata Hanpeita: Hana no maki; Arashi no maki'' (月形半平太花の巻嵐の巻) (1956) *''

The Tale of Zatoichi is a 1962 Japanese ''chanbara'' film directed by Kenji Misumi and based on the 1948 essay of the same name by Kan Shimozawa. It is the first installment in a long-running ''jidaigeki'' film series starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind swordsman ...

'' (座頭市物語 Zatōichi monogatari) (1962) *''

New Tale of Zatoichi ''The New Tale of Zatoichi'' ( ja, 新・座頭市物語 ''Shin Zatoichi monogatari'') is a 1963 Japanese film and the third entry from the popular Zatoichi series completing the trilogy. The film is the first Zatoichi film to be in colour. Plot ...

'' (新座頭市物語 Shin Zatōichi monogatari) (1963) *''

Zatoichi on the Road is a 1963 Japanese Chambara film directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda starring Shintaro Katsu as the blind masseur Zatoichi, originally released by the Daiei Motion Picture Company (now known as Kadokawa Pictures). ''Zatoichi: On the Road'' is the fifth ...

'' (座頭市喧嘩旅 Zatōichi kenka-tabi) (1963)

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inuzuka, Minoru 1901 births 2007 deaths People from Tokyo Japanese film directors Japanese centenarians Men centenarians Silent film directors 20th-century Japanese screenwriters