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Army (陸軍 Rikugun) is a 1944 Japanese film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and starring Chishū Ryū and Kinuyo Tanaka. It is best known for its final scene, which Japanese World War II censors found troubling.
Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介, Kinoshita Keisuke, December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. [2] While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu, he was a household figure in his home country, beloved by both critics and audiences from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Army: 陸軍: Keisuke Kinoshita: Drama, War. Based on a novel Army. 1950s. Year Country Main title (Alternative title) Original title (Original script) Director
Pages in category "Films directed by Keisuke Kinoshita" ... Army (1944 film) B. The Ballad of Narayama (1958 film) Big Joys, Small Sorrows; Boyhood (1951 film) C.
He was in Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-four Eyes (1954) and played wartime Prime Minister Kantarō Suzuki in Kihachi Okamoto's Japan's Longest Day (1967). From 1969 until his death in 1993, he played a curmudgeonly but benevolent Buddhist priest in more than forty of the immensely popular It's Tough Being a Man ( Otoko wa tsurai yo ) series ...
Times of Joy and Sorrow has been remade three times for Japanese television, [3] and in 1986 Kinoshita himself reworked it as Big Joys, Small Sorrows. [ 4 ] In 1993 a statue depicting the movie's two stars in an iconic pose from publicity materials was erected at Hajikizaki Lighthouse on Sato Island , one of the filming sites, as a tribute to ...
Mar. 9—Kinoshita pleaded guilty to the drug charges Oct. 27 in U.S. District Court. A Hilo man who "lived a life of crime for 41 years " was sentenced to nearly 13 years in federal prison ...
A Legend or Was It? was screened at the 2012 Filmex as part of its retrospective on Keisuke Kinoshita, [4] and at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013 in the "Forum" section. [ 5 ] References