Akira Nobuchi
Akira Nobuchi (野淵 昶, Nobuchi Akira, 22 June 1896 - 1 February 1968) was a Japanese stage director and film director. He launched the Elan Vital Shōgekijō little theatre in 1918 while he was at Kyoto Imperial University. He stage-managed plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Schnitzler, Lord Dunsany, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O'Casey as well as those by Japanese playwrights including Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Ujaku Akita, Masao Kume and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
Akira Nobuchi
撮影者不明 / Photographer unknown · 『新映画』(1942年5月号) / "Shin Eiga" 1942 May issue · Public domain
- Name
- Akira Nobuchi
- Born
- 22 June 1896
- Birthplace
- Nara City, Japan
- Died
- 1 February 1968
- Occupation
- Stage director, film director
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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Akira Nobuchi (野淵 昶, Nobuchi Akira, 22 June 1896 - 1 February 1968) was a Japanese stage director and film director. He launched the Elan Vital Shōgekijō little theatre in 1918 while he was at Kyoto Imperial University. He stage-managed plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Schnitzler, Lord Dunsany, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O'Casey as well as those by Japanese playwrights including Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Ujaku Akita, Masao Kume and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
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Akira Nobuchi was a film director and screenwriter, of Japanese and Japanese nationality. The film director was born in Nara. Languages used include Japanese.
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Having left the Elan Vital Shōgekijō in 1933, he entered Shinkō Kinema the following year. He made a debut with talkie Nagasaki Ryūgakusei (1935), after which he made more than 30 films until 1955.
映光社『新興キネマ』三月号「本邦トーキーの革命篇 『長崎留学生』と野淵組―期待さるべき野心作―」
撮影者不明 · 映光社『新興キネマ』三月号(1935年3月1日)
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• Name — Akira Nobuchi • Born — 22 June 1896 • Birthplace — Nara City, Japan • Died — 1 February 1968 • Occupation — Stage director, film director • Years Active — 1918–1955
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• Nagasaki Ryūgakusei (1935) • Yoshida Goten (1937) • Shizuka Gozen (1938) • Fūfu Nise (1940) • Taki no Shiraito (1952) • Kaidan Botan-dōrō (1955)
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1896
Akira Nobuchi was born on 22 June 1896.
1968
Akira Nobuchi died on 1 February 1968.
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Akira Nobuchi was born at Nara.
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- 1.Nihon Eiga Terebi Kantoku Zenshū, Kinema Junposha Co., Ltd. (1988) p. 544.
- 2.Kyoto Shimbun (evening) 2 February 1968, p. 11.
- 3.Ōoka, Kinji. Kansai Shingeki-shi, Tōhō Shuppan (1991) p. 603.
- 4.Matsumoto, Kappei. Nihon Shingekishi: Shingeki Binbo Monogatari, Chikuma Shobō (1966) p. 641.
- 5."Tokushū Shinkō Kinema Kantoku Meikan" Shinkō Kinema March issue Vol. 4, Eikosha (1935) p. 72.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Short stories of to-day (1929)
- One-act plays of to-day (1929)
- Enshutsu Nyūmon (1949)
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