Masao Inoue (actor)
Masao Inoue 井上正夫 | |
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 Masao Inoue in 1928 | |
| Born | 15 June 1881 Ehime |
| Died | 7 February 1950 (aged 68) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Stage and film actor, director |
Masao Inoue (井上正夫, Inoue Masao, 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.
Career[]
Born in Ehime Prefecture, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17.[1] Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member of Hōyō Ii's troupe.[2] He soon became a prominent performer in shinpa theater, and in 1910 founded the Shin Jidaigeki Kyōkai.[2] He also started his own acting school in 1936 and was elected to the Japan Art Academy in 1949.[1][2]
Inoue was an early supporter of cinema and directed a reformist film, The Captain's Daughter (Taii no musume, 1917) for , 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.[3]
Selected filmography[]
As actor[]
- (寒椿) (1921)
- (噫無情) (1923)
- (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[]
- (大尉の娘, Taii no musume) (1917)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Inoue Masao". Ehime-ken hatsu eigajin (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Inoue Masao". Nihon jinmei daijiten + Plus (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ Gerow, Aaron (2008). A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-1-929280-51-3.
External links[]
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- Inoue Masao at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- 1881 births
- 1950 deaths
- Japanese film directors
- Japanese male silent film actors
- 20th-century Japanese male actors
- Japanese male stage actors
- People from Ehime Prefecture
- Actors from Ehime Prefecture