Kinnosuke Takamatsu

Kinnosuke Takamatsu (Japanese: 高松 錦之助, Hepburn: Takamatsu Kinnosuke, 13 January 1898 – 14 May 1979) was a Japanese actor.

Kinnosuke Takamatsu
高松錦之助
Born	Tsunao Watanabe (1898-01-13)13 January 1898 Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan
Died	14 May 1979(1979-05-14) (aged 81)
Other names	Kyōsuke Takamatsu
Occupation	Actor

Career

Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Takamatsu acted in shinpa theater before joining Makino Film Productions in 1924.[1] He left the studio in 1926 and joined director Teinosuke Kinugasa in the independent production of the avant-garde film A Page of Madness, playing the crucial role of the bearded inmate. He later joined Ryunosuke Tsukigata's independent production company before moving to Shochiku.[1] During World War II, he left the film business and focused on theater, but he returned to film in 1946 in Kenji Mizoguchi's Utamaro and His Five Women.[1] He finished his career appearing in many Toei Company jidaigeki. He performed in over 200 films in his lifetime.

Selected filmography

• A Page of Madness (1926)
• The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939)
• Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
• Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji (1955)
• 13 Assassins (1963)
• Oshidori kenkagasa (1957)
• The Sword of Doom (1966)

References

1. "Takamatsu Kinnosuke" (in Japanese). Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved 20 September 2017.

External links

• Kinnosuke Takamatsu on IMDb
• Takamatsu Kinnosuke at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
• Takamatsu Kyōsuke at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)