Shōzō Makino (牧野省三, ''Makino Shōzō'', September 22, 1878,

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– July 25, 1929) was a Japanese

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, film producer and businessman who is regarded as a pioneering director of Japanese film. In addition, all four of his sons, including

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and

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, went into the film business as either directors or producers, and his grandchildren include the actors

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and Hiroyuki Nagato. Actress Yoko Minamida is a granddaughter-in-law.

Career

Makino was born in

on September 22, 1878. His mother ran a theater, and his association with movies began when the motion picture producer of Yokota Shōkai asked for his help in filming period films. Shozo discovered actor

Matsunosuke Onoe , sometimes known as Medama no Matchan (''"Eyeballs" Matsu''), was a Japanese actor. His birth name is Tsuruzo Nakamura. He is sometimes credited as Yukio Koki, Tamijaku Onoe, or Tsunusaburo Onoe, and as a kabuki artist he went by the name Tsuru ...

working in an itinerant

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troupe and enlisted him into becoming Japan's first film star. He directed over 60 Matsunosuke films a year in the early 1910s, most if not all short films. In addition to creating the unique genre of the Japanese period film, Makino also incorporated trick camera techniques and a myriad of other cinematic methods of expression into his films. In 1919, he founded the Mikado Company and began to produce educational films. He later founded an independent production company, Makino Film Productions, and from 1923, continued as a director and as producer. Makino Film Productions turned out many successful movies also made by several other directors and actors. In 1928, he directed the epic, '' Jitsuroku Chushingura'' (''True Record of the Forty-Seven Ronin''), which coincided with his 50th birthday. He died on July 25, 1929.

Family

He had a total of five children. Two of his sons,

(1906–2003) and

(1908–1993) were also film directors. Another, Mitsuo Makino, was a film producer, and another Shinzō Makino, also worked as a director (his wife was the actress Chikako Miyagi). Masahiro married the actress

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and their son, Masayuki Makino, is the head of the Okinawa Actor's School. Shōzō's daughter, Tomoko Makino, married the actor Kunitarō Sawamura, and is the mother to actors

and Hiroyuki Nagato, both of whom married famous actresses, Yukiji Asaoka and Yōko Minamida respectively. Kunitarō's brother and sister are the actors

Daisuke Katō was a Japanese actor. He appeared in over 200 films, including Akira Kurosawa's ''Seven Samurai'', ''Rashomon'', ''Yojimbo'', and ''Ikiru''. He also worked repeatedly for noted directors such as Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi. ...

and Sadako Sawamura.

Filmography

* 1914 ''Kōchiyama Sōshun'' * 1921 '' Jiraiya the Hero'' (''Gōketsu Jiraiya'') * 1928 '' Jitsuroku Chushingura'' (''True Record of the Forty-Seven Ronin'')

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