Keisuke Kinoshita

Keisuke Kinoshita, whose real first name was Masakichi, was born on 5 December 1912 in Hamamatsu, into a family of grocers. He joined Shōchiku in 1933, first assigned to the laboratory, became the assistant of the director Yasujirō Shimazu, then moved to directing in 1943. Throughout his career he alternated comedy and melodrama. He left Shōchiku in 1964 to devote himself to television, and died in Tokyo on 30 December 1998.

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• CinemaCarmen Comes Homeカルメン故郷に帰るKeisuke Kinoshita · 1951Cinema