Keisuke Kinoshita

Highest Rated: 86% The Ballad of Narayama (1958)

Lowest Rated: 60% Nijushi No Hitomi (1954)

Birthday: Dec 5, 1912

Birthplace: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

Accomplished in a wide range of genres, Kinoshita made satiric comedies, stirring social dramas and the visually compelling, Kabuki version of "The Ballad of Narayama" (1958). He is probably best known, however, for his numerous sentimental romances of the 1950s and 60s, such as "She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum" (1955). "Carmen Comes Home" (1951), about a big-city stripper who shakes up her home town during a short visit, was Japan's first film to be released in color and one of the director's best.

Filmography

Movies

			Credit
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Doraheita	Writer	-	2000
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Big Joys, Small Sorrows	Director, Screenwriter	-	1986
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Children of Nagasaki	Director	-	1984
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Young Rebels	Director, Writer	-	1980
73%	78%	Dodes 'Ka-Den	Executive Producer	-	1970
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Scent of Incense	Director, Screenwriter	-	1964
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	A Legend or Was It?	Director, Writer, Producer	-	1963
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Sing, Young People!	Director, Producer	-	1963
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Ballad of a Workman	Director, Screenwriter	-	1962
No Score Yet	56%	Immortal Love	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	-	1961
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Spring Dreams	Director	-	1960
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The River Fuefuki	Director, Screenwriter	-	1960
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Snow Flurry	Director, Screenwriter	-	1959
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Farewell to Spring	Director	-	1959
86%	89%	The Ballad of Narayama	Director, Screenwriter	-	1958
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Eternal Rainbow	Director, Screenwriter	-	1958
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Rose on His Arm	Director, Screenwriter	-	1956
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Farewell to Dream	Director	-	1956
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Tattered Wings	Director	-	1955
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum	Director, Screenwriter	-	1955
60%	86%	Nijushi No Hitomi	Director, Writer	-	1954
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	24 Eyes	Director, Writer	-	1954
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Garden of Women	Director, Screenwriter	-	1954
No Score Yet	75%	Tragedy of Japan	Director, Screenwriter	-	1953
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Love Letter	Screenwriter	-	1953
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Carmen's Innocent Love	Director, Screenwriter	-	1952
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Boyhood	Director, Screenwriter	-	1951
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Fireworks Over the Sea	Director, Screenwriter	-	1951
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Good Fairy	Director, Screenwriter	-	1951
No Score Yet	25%	Carmen Comes Home	Director, Writer	-	1951
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Wedding Ring	Director, Screenwriter, Producer	-	1950
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	A Broken Drum	Director, Screenwriter	-	1949
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Here's to the Young Lady	Director	-	1949
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Yotsuya Kaidan, Part II	Director	-	1949
No Score Yet	20%	Yotsuya Kaidan	Director	-	1949
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Portrait	Director	-	1948
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Woman	Director	-	1948
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Hakai	Director	-	1948
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Phoenix	Director	-	1947
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Girl I Loved	Director, Screenwriter	-	1946
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Morning for the Osone Family	Director	-	1946
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Jubilation Street	Director	-	1944
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Army	Director	-	1944
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	The Living Magoroku	Director	-	1943
No Score Yet	No Score Yet	Port of Flowers	Director	-	1943