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 dor 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Teinosuke Kinugasa licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia