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Filmmaker · Japan

Hiroshi Inagaki

Died in 1980

Hiroshi Inagaki was born on 30 December 1905 in Tokyo, the son of a shinpa actor, and went on stage in childhood. Having joined Nikkatsu as an actor in 1922, he directed his first film in 1928 for the company of the actor Kataoka Chiezō, and became one of the masters of the period film, with a tone often lyrical and smiling. He shot the same trilogy twice, in black and white during the war and then in colour, and won the Golden Lion at Venice in 1958. He died in Tokyo on 21 May 1980.

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