FILM DIRECTOR

Keisuke Kinoshita

1912 - 1998

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Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介, Kinoshita Keisuke; December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. 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. Kinoshita's films were marked by a sense of sentimentality, purity, and beauty, and often featured experimentation in both technique and subject matter. Kinoshita entered the film industry in 1933 as a film processor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Keisuke Kinoshita is the 650th most popular film director (down from 612th in 2019), the 985th most popular biography from Japan (down from 896th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 650 out of 2,041. Before him are Majid Majidi, Roger Donaldson, Paul Scheuring, Richard Linklater, Roger Spottiswoode, and Maurice Tourneur. After him are Paul Grimault, Artavazd Peleshyan, Baz Luhrmann, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Corey Yuen, and Daniel Schmid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 187. Before him are Bill Miller, Pál Kovács, Nick Cravat, Pietro Ferraris, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, and Alexey Sudayev. After him are Northrop Frye, Palle Huld, Enrique Fernández Viola, Teddy Wilson, Carvalho Leite, and Georges Franju. Among people deceased in 1998, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 149. Before him are Qian Zhongshu, Louis Dumont, Joan Brossa, Samuel Eilenberg, Edwige Feuillère, and Anatoly Rybakov. After him are Antonio Saura, Haroun Tazieff, Gérard Grisey, Bertil Nordahl, John Chadwick, and Josep Escolà.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 985 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Nakajima (1928), Ango Sakaguchi (1906), Mitsuo Tsukahara (1947), Tanaka Hisashige (1799), Katō Tomosaburō (1861), and Kirin Kiki (1943). After him are Kafū Nagai (1879), Naomi Osaka (1997), Keiichi Tsuchiya (1956), Yuko Shimizu (1946), Tatsumi Kimishima (1950), and Koichi Tohei (1920).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 30. Before him are Hiroshi Inagaki (1905), Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), Seijun Suzuki (1923), Kaneto Shindo (1912), and Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950). After him are Yoji Yamada (1931), Jun'ichi Kōuchi (1886), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), Rintaro (1941), Mamoru Hosoda (1967), and Shinichirō Watanabe (1965).

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