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name: "Gorô Kusakabe"
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born: "23 July 1934"
died: "7 February 2020"
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# Gorô Kusakabe

Production designer. Born 23 July 1934 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Died 7 February 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 23 July 1934, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
- **Died:** 7 February 2020

## Biography

Gorô Kusakabe (1934–2020) was a Japanese film producer and production designer. He was born in Gifu Prefecture and worked primarily with Toei Company on yakuza and period dramas.

Kusakabe served as producer on Kinji Fukasaku’s *Battles Without Honor and Humanity* (1973) and its sequels *Police Tactics* (1974) and *Final Episode* (1974). He also produced Shohei Imamura’s *The Ballad of Narayama* (1983), on which he received a production design credit, and worked on numerous other Toei productions as planner or producer through the 1990s.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ballad of Narayama* (1983), Fi1m 82, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ballad-of-narayama.md)

## Also known for

- *Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics* (1974), Producer
- *Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode* (1974), Producer

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