Kichinosuke Takizawa

Futagawa Buntaro

  • Name: Futagawa Buntaro
  • Native name: 二川文太郎
  • Also Known as: ふたがわ ぶんたろう, 滝沢 吉之助, たきざわ きちのすけ, 紫之塚 乙馬, Shinozuka Otsuma, しのづか おつま, 駒田 通, こまだ とおる, Komada Tooru
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: June 18, 1899
  • Died: March 28, 1966
A specialist in jidai-geki, Futagawa is remembered largely for the silent films he made at Makino Productions in collaboration with popular action hero Tsumasaburō Bandō. Several of these survive: Kageboshi (Edo Kaizokuden: Kagebōshi, 1925) is admired for having introduced a greater psychological depth into a genre hitherto concerned largely with action, while the most famous, Orochi (1925), is considered of importance in establishing the anti-heroic persona of the “nihilist hero” in revolt against society, which would be developed by Daisuke Itō. The film’s melancholy mood was genuinely affecting, though it lacked Itō’s depth of political implication, the hero’s sufferings being the result more of hard luck than of social injustice. Noel Burch has called Futagawa “the epitome of the academic neo-Western director”; however, while his style had a certain classical economy, his preference for staging action scenes in long shot was as characteristically Japanese as were his thematic concerns. It seems, moreover, that he made occasional films in a deliberately experimental mode: the lost Whenthe Gravestone Snores (Boseki ga ibikisuru koro, 1925) was apparently influenced by the then fashionable expressionism of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene).
In the thirties, Futagawa worked at Shochiku, where he continued to specialize in period films, often starring the dashing Chōjūrō Hayashi (later renamed Kazuo Hasegawa). However, his sound films were not widely admired, and he retired from direction in 1939. An attempted comeback in the fifties was unsuccessful. Futagawa’s younger brother, Eisuke Takizawa, also worked as a director. (source: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors) Edit Biography
Director
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1938 Kimen Mikazuki To
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1932 Nawanuke Jibee: Shiranami Saifu
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1931 Ryakudatsu Yomego
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1925 The Serpent
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1924 Backward Flow
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1933 Kosetsu: Nure Tsubame
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Kichinosuke Takizawa
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  • First Name: Kichinosuke
  • Family Name: Takizawa
  • Native name: 二川文太郎
  • Also Known as: ふたがわ ぶんたろう, 滝沢 吉之助, たきざわ きちのすけ, 紫之塚 乙馬, Shinozuka Otsuma, しのづか おつま, 駒田 通, こまだ とおる, Komada Tooru
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Male
  • Born: June 18, 1899
  • Died: March 28, 1966

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