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Teinosuke Kinugasa
Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助 Kinugasa Teinosuke) (1 January 1896 – 26 February 1982) was a Japanese actor and film director. He was born in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture and died in Kyoto. Kinugasa won the 1954 Palme d'or at Cannes for Jigokumon (The Gate of Hell).
Kinugasa was among the pioneers of Japanese film, but began his career as an actor specializing in female roles (onnagata) at the Nikkatsu studio. When Japanese cinema began using actresses in the early 1920s, he switched to directing and worked for such producers as Shozo Makino before going independent to make his best known film, A Page of Madness (1926).
On February 26, 1982, Kinugasa died at the age of 86.
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As director
The Little Runaway
Bronze Magician
When Women Lie
Blind Devotion
Okoto and Sasuke
The Song Lantern
Stop the Old Fox
Jōen
The Snowy Heron
Ôsaka no onna
Secret of Naruto
Floating Vessel
Three Women Around Yoshinaka
Tsukigata Hanpeita
A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love
The Romance of Yushima
Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi
Gate of Hell
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Lantern Under a Full Moon
Koga Manshion
Four Love Stories
Actress
Lord for a Night
Kanchō umi no bara
The Battle of Kawanakajima
The Snake Princess
Zoku Hebihimesama
The Siege of Osaka
Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen