(22 October 1901 – 22 October 1980) 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 ...

. He directed films from the 1930s to 1950s, especially

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 ...

and

ghost movies Ghost movies and shows can fall into a wide range of genres, including romance, comedy, horror, juvenile interest, and drama. Depictions of ghosts are as diverse as Casper the Friendly Ghost, Beetlejuice, Hamlet's father, Jacob Marley, Freddy Kru ...

based on

kaidan is a Japanese word consisting of two kanji: 怪 (''kai'') meaning "strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparition" and 談 (''dan'') meaning "talk" or "recited narrative". Overall meaning and usage In its broadest sense, ''kaidan'' refers ...

Filmography

Ryohei Arai directed 47 films: * Tsubanari Ronin (1939) * Zoku Tsubanari Ronin (1940) * ''

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace is a 1953 Japanese horror film directed by Ryohei Arai and produced by Daiei Film. Filmed in black and white in the Academy ratio format, it stars Takako Irie and Kotaro Bando. A prior version of the story, titled '' Arima Neko'', was released ...

'' (Kaibyō Arima ) (1953) * ''

Ghost of Saga Mansion is a 1953 Japanese horror film directed by Ryohei Arai. It was filmed in Black and White, academy ratio format (full screen). It was never dubbed in English, nor shown in the United States theatrically. Cast * Kōtarō Bandō * Kunitarō Saw ...

'' (Kaidan Saga yashiki) (1953) * (赤穂義士 Akō gishi) (1954)

References

Japanese film directors 1901 births 1980 deaths {{Japan-film-director-stub