Masao Inoue
15 June 1881 – 7 February 1950 was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.
Masao Inoue
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- Name
- Masao Inoue 井上正夫
- Born
- 15 June 1881
- Birthplace
- Ehime, Empire of Japan
- Died
- 7 February 1950
- Occupation
- Stage and film actor, director
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Languages
- Japanese
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15 June 1881 – 7 February 1950 was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film and stage art in Japan.
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Masao Inoue was a Japanese and Japanese actor and film director. The actor was born in Tobe. Languages used include Japanese.
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• Name — Masao Inoue 井上正夫 • Born — 15 June 1881 • Birthplace — Ehime, Empire of Japan • Died — 7 February 1950 • Occupation — Stage and film actor, director
Career
Career
Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member of Hōyō Ii's troupe. He soon became a prominent performer in shinpa theater, and in 1910 founded the Shin Jidaigeki Kyōkai. He also started his own acting school in 1936 and was elected to the Japan Art Academy in 1949. Inoue was an early supporter of cinema and directed a reformist film, The Captain's Daughter (Taii no musume, 1917) for Kobayashi Shōkai, at the time of the Pure Film Movement. He is most famous in the West for his starring role in Teinosuke Kinugasa's experimental masterpiece A Page of Madness (1926), which he helped support by refusing payment for his services.
As actor
As actor
• Kantsubaki (寒椿) (1921) • Aa mujō (噫無情) (1923) • Daichi wa hohoemu (大地は微笑む) (1925) • A Page of Madness (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ippēji or Kurutta Ichipeiji) (1926) • Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki (鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇クロの巻) (1949)
As director
As director
• The Captain's Daughter (大尉の娘, Taii no musume) (1917)
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水の江瀧子、井上正夫、水谷八重子
投稿者が出典書籍より取り込み · 水の江瀧子『ひまわり婆っちゃま』（文園社、1988年）p.103
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1950
Masao Inoue died on 7 February 1950.
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- 1.Inoue Masao. Ehime-ken hatsu eigajin.
- 2.Kōdansha. Inoue Masao. Nihon jinmei daijiten + Plus.
- 3.Gerow, Aaron. A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. 22–23. 2008. 978-1-929280-51-3.
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