Masao Inoue (actor)

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Masao Inoue
井上正夫
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Masao Inoue in 1928
Born(1881-06-15)15 June 1881
Ehime
Died7 February 1950(1950-02-07) (aged 68)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationStage 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[]

As director[]

  • (大尉の娘, Taii no musume) (1917)

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "Inoue Masao". Ehime-ken hatsu eigajin (in Japanese). Retrieved 8 January 2011.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Inoue Masao". Nihon jinmei daijiten + Plus (in Japanese). Kōdansha. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
  3. ^ 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.

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