Keisuke Kinoshita

(Film Director, 1912-1998) Born in Hamamatsu. 1933, He joins Shochiku Kamata Studios as assistant cinematographer. He is then apprenticed to Yasujiro Shimazu and Kozaburo Yoshimura as assistant director. After being repatriated, he debuts as director with “Port of Flowers” (’43), an adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta’s play. He drew attention as an up-and-coming director, together with Toho’s Akira Kurosawa who had also just made his debut with “Sanshiro Sugata” (’43). Post-war, he creates diverse films such as Japan’s first feature-length colour musical “Carmen Comes Home” (’51), and the masterpiece of Japanese film history “Twenty-Four Eyes” (’54), becoming one of the directors supporting Japanese cinema. He leaves Shochiku in 1964 after the epic “The Scent of Incense”, and begins to shoot television dramas. He also made a great achievement in the television industry, holding a series crowning his own name.