Teinosuke Kinugasa: Teinosuke Kinugasa. Director: Gate of Hell. Former female impersonator who entered films in 1917 as an actor, turned to directing in 1922 and made some of the most formally brilliant Japanese films of the following decades. The few of Kinugasa's early works to have reached the West betray a highly mature, sophisticated talent. His best-known silent films are _Kurutta Ippeji (1926)_, an old print of which was found by Kinugasa...
Known For: Gate of Hell (Director), Shirasagi (Director), Aru yo no tonosama (Director), Daibutsu kaigen (Director)