Eiyuu Gosha

Gosha Hideo

  • Name: Gosha Hideo
  • Native name: 五社英雄
  • Also Known as: ごしゃ ひでお, ごしゃ えいゆう
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: February 26, 1929
  • Died: August 8, 1992
Hideo Gosha (五社 英雄 Gosha Hideo, February 26, 1929 – August 30, 1992) was a Japanese film director.

Born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Gosha graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon television as a reporter in 1953. In 1957 he moved on to the newly founded Fuji Television and rose through the ranks as a producer and director. One of his television shows, the chambara Three Outlaw Samurai, so impressed the heads of the Shochiku film studio that he was offered the chance to adapt it as a feature film in 1964. Following this film's financial success, he directed a string of equally successful chambara productions through the end of the 1960s. His two most critical and popular successes of the period are Goyokin and Hitokiri (also known as Tenchu), both released in 1969 and both considered to be two of the finest examples of the chambara genre.

During the 1970s Gosha abandoned pure chambara and turned his productive energies toward films in the yakuza genre but he still produced period sword films such as The Wolves (1971 film) (1972), Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978), and Hunter in the Dark (1979). His films Three Outlaw Samurai and Sword of the Beast (1965) have been released by Criterion.

By the early 1980s, Gosha began making period films that featured prostitutes as protagonists that were renowned for their realism, violence, and overt sexuality. They were critically panned for those very reasons, but they were also all box office successes. In 1984 he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for The Geisha.

Gosha’s films have influenced directors including Chang Cheh, Takashi Miike, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri. Edit Biography
Screenwriter
Year Title Type Rating
1973 Oshi Samurai Kiichi Hogan
Drama
0.0
Director
Year Title Type Rating
1992 The Oil-Hell Murder
Movie
6.5
1991 Heat Wave
Movie
7.4
1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie
6.6
1988 Carmen 1945
Movie
6.1
1987 Tokyo Bordello
Movie
7.0
1986 Gokudo no Onnatachi
Movie
6.6
1986 Death Shadows
Movie
6.6
1985 Tracked
Movie
6.9
1985 Oar
Movie
6.7
1984 Fireflies in the North
Movie
7.4
1983 The Geisha
Movie
7.3
1982 Onimasa
Movie
7.7
1974 Violent Streets
Movie
7.4
1969 Hitokiri
Movie
7.4
1969 Goyokin
Movie
7.4
1966 Samurai Wolf
Movie
7.3
1966 The Secret of the Urn
Movie
6.6
1965 Sword of the Beast
Movie
7.4
1964 Three Outlaw Samurai
Movie
7.4
Screenwriter & Director
Year Title Type Rating
1979 Yami no Karyudo
Movie
7.0
1971 The Wolves
Movie
7.4
1967 Samurai Wolf 2: Hell Cut
Movie
0.0
1966 Cash Calls Hell
Movie
7.6
Director
Year Title Type Rating
1982 Tange Sazen Kenfu! Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo
Special
0.0
1960 Mushi Kera
Special
0.0
1960 Mushikera Samurai
Special
0.0
TV Show
Year Title # Role Rating
1982 This Person Show
Japanese TV Show, 1982, 112 eps
(Ep. 80) (Guest)
112
(Ep. 80)
Guest
0.0
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  • First Name: Eiyuu
  • Family Name: Gosha
  • Native name: 五社英雄
  • Also Known as: ごしゃ ひでお, ごしゃ えいゆう
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: February 26, 1929
  • Died: August 8, 1992

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