Minoru Inuzuka

Minoru Inuzuka (犬塚 稔, Inuzuka Minoru, 15 February 1901 – 17 September 2007) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Starting out as a screenwriter at Shochiku in 1924, he also participated in the production of Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness.[1] When Chōjirō Hayashi (later known as Kazuo Hasegawa) became a jidaigeki star at Shochiku, Inuzuka directed many of his films. After World War II, Inuzuka returned to specializing in screenplays and was known for his scripts for the Zatoichi series. He published his autobiography in 2002,[2] and died in 2007 at the age of 106.[3] When he died, he was called the last surviving director to have directed a silent film in the 1920s.[4] Inuzuka wrote scripts for over 150 films and directed over 50.[3]

Minoru Inuzuka
Born(1901-02-15)15 February 1901
Tokyo, Japan
Died17 September 2007(2007-09-17) (aged 106)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter

Selected filmography

As director
  • Chigo no kenpō (稚児の剣法) (1927)
  • The Spell of the Sand Painting (砂絵呪縛 Sunae Shibari) (1927)

As screenwriter
gollark: *At best*, you can launch it into the sky quite fast and expend most of your psi, or push it reasonably quickly if you're in it, and lose your psi regen.
gollark: You can't "push a tank across the planet".
gollark: Remember, you can't autocast it, and there *are* significant limits on it. For example, digging 3x5 tunnels is about the limit of psi pickaxe powers.
gollark: Magitech is cool. Psi isn't really that overpowered, it's a utility mod really.
gollark: HERESY. Add Psi and Botania!

References
  1. Gerow, Aaron (2008). A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. pp. 26–28. ISBN 9781929280513.
  2. Inuzuka, Minoru (2002). Eiga wa kagerō no gotoku. Tokyo: Sōshisha. ISBN 479421104X.
  3. "Kyakuhonka, eiga kantoku no Inuzuka Minoru-san shikyo". Asahi shinbun. 25 September 2007. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
  4. "RIP Minoru Inuzuka". The Bioscope. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
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