was a Japanese actor and film director.
Life
Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara (栗原喜三郎), was born in
Hadano
is a Cities of Japan, city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 163,787 and a population density of 1600 persons per km². The total area of the city is .
Geography
Hadano is located in the foothills of the ...
,
Kanagawa
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...
. Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled in a school for film actors in 1912. After graduation, working as an
extra
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, he entered
Oriental Production, which was founded by
Thomas Harper Ince for Asian actors. There he worked with
Sesshu Hayakawa,
Tsuruko Aoki,
Goro Kino and many Japanese actors. Performance of Takeo in ''
The Wrath of the Gods'' (1914) made him famous.
Hoping to work film industry in his country, Kurihara went back to Japan in 1918, and entered
Taishō Katsuei in April 1920, a film production which Ryozō Asano of
Asano zaibatsu
Asano zaibatsu 浅野財閥, one of the major second-tier zaibatsu ( conglomerates) in Japan, was founded in 1887 by Asano Sōichirō 浅野総一郎 with support from Shibusawa Eiichi 渋沢栄一, the founder of the Shibusawa zaibatsu 渋沢財 ...
(Kurihara's acquaintance) founded at Yamashita-cho,
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
. There he started his career as film director. His first work at Taisho was ''
Amateur Club
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History
His ...
'' (1920), which
Junichiro Tanizaki joined as a
film writer
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T ...
.
Until Taisho Katsudo Eiga stopped to making films in 1922 Kurihara made more than 30 films. He also lectured many film directors and actors:
Tomu Uchida
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and
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Tokihiko Okada
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Michiko Hayama
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,
Ureo Egawa and
Atsushi Watanabe.
Kurihara died on 8 September 1926 at the age of 41.
Filmography
as an actor
*''Gokurakutô no joô'' (The Queen of Paradice Island) (1925)
*''Zoku Amateur Club'' (Amateur Club: part two) (1923)
*''Shitakiri Suzume'' (Sparrow's Inn) (1923)
*''Kurueru Akuma'' (A Crazy Devil) (1921)
*''Jasei no in'' (A Serpent's Lust) (1921)
*''
The Miracle Man'' uncredited
*''
The Bravest Way
''The Bravest Way'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by Edith M. Kennedy. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Vidor, Tsuru Aoki, Yukio Aoyama, Jane Wolfe, and Winter Hall. The film was released on ...
'' (1918)
*''
The Honor of His House
''The Honor of His House'' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by William C. deMille and written by Marion Fairfax. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, Mayme Kelso, Kisaburo Kurihara, and Forrest Seabury. The fil ...
'' (1918)
*''
The Curse of Iku'' (1918)
*''
The Hopper'' (1918)
*''
Her American Husband
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Cast
* Teddy Sampson as Cherry Blossom
* Darrell Foss as Herbert Franklyn
* ...
'' (1918)
*''
Wolves of the Rail
''Wolves of the Rail'' is a 1918 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film produced, directed by, and starring William S. Hart. Thomas H. Ince assisted Hart in supervising the production.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, " ...
'' (1918)
*''
Hashimura Togo
''Hashimura Togo'' is a 1917 American silent comedy film directed by William C. deMille and written by Marion Fairfax and Wallace Irwin. The film stars Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Vidor, Mabel Van Buren, Walter Long, Tom Forman, and Raymond Hatt ...
'' (1917)
*''
The Square Deal Man'' (1917)
*''
The Devil's Double (1916 film)
''The Devil's Double'' is a lost 1916 silent film western directed by and starring William S. Hart. It was produced by the New York Motion Picture Company and released through Triangle Film Corporation.
Cast
* William S. Hart - Bowie Blake
* ...
''
*''
The Soul of Kura San'' (1916)
*''
The Forbidden Adventure'' (1915)
*''
Over Secret Wires'' (1915)
*''The Grudge'' (1915)
*''
The Bride of Guadaloupe'' (1915)
*''
In the Sage Brush Country'' (1914)
*''
The Fortunes of War'' (1914)
*''The Vigil'' (1914)
*''
The Typhoon
''The Typhoon'' is a 1914 American drama film directed by Reginald Barker, written by Melchior Lengyel, and starring Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Frank Borzage, Henry Kotani and Leona Hutton. It was released on October 10, 1914, by Paramo ...
'' (1914)
*''
A Tale of the Northwest Mounted'' (1914)
*''
The Curse of Caste'' (1914)
*''
The Wrath of the Gods'' (1914)
*''
Shorty's Trip to Mexico'' (1914)
*''
The Ambassador's Envoy'' (1914)
*''
The Courtship of O San'' (1914)
*''
O Mimi San'' (1914)
as a film director
*''Haru wa kaeru'' (''Spring comes back'') (1924)
*''Zoku Amateur Club'' (1923)
*''Yume no tabiji'' (The Dream of Orient) (1921)
*''Narikin'' (Sanji Goto - The Story of Japanese Enoch Arden) (1921)
*''Kashu Daigaku Yakyudan Raicho-sen Jokkyo'' (Report on the Friendly Match versus California State College Baseball Team) (1921)
*''Kisen Houshi'' (Kisen the Monk) (1921)
*''Shuppan mae kai shimon'' (1921)
*''Beikoku Kyokugei Hikou'' (1921)
*''Hinamatsuri no yoru'' (Night of Doll Festival) (1921)
*''Kami no Setsuri'' (The Providence of God) (1921)
*''Goman-en'' (Fifty thousand Yen) (1921)
*''Doro no Sainan'' (1921)
*''Ganjitsu no Satsuei'' (Shots on New Year Day) (1921)
*''Jasei no in'' (A Serpent's Lust) (1921)
*''Meiji Junguu Chinzasai'' (1920)
*''Goto Sanji'' (1920)
*''Katsushika Sunako'' (1920)
*''Utsukushiki Nippon'' (Japan: the beautiful) (1920)
*''Amateur Club'' (1920)
as a film writer
*''Haru wa kaeru'' (1924)
*''Yume no tabiji'' (''The Dream of Orient'') (1921)
External links
*
Kurihara Thomas's JMDb listing(Japanese)]
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1885 births
1926 deaths
Japanese film directors
Japanese male film actors
Japanese male silent film actors
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors
20th-century Japanese male actors
Male actors from Kanagawa Prefecture
People from Hadano, Kanagawa