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name: "Teinosuke Kinugasa"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/teinosuke-kinugasa"
fi1m_id: "teinosuke-kinugasa"
imdb_id: "nm0455938"
tmdb_id: 213471
wikidata_id: "Q723042"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1896"
died: "26 February 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:19:52.082510+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Teinosuke Kinugasa

## Identity

Teinosuke Kinugasa

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/teinosuke-kinugasa
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** teinosuke-kinugasa
- **IMDb ID:** nm0455938
- **TMDB ID:** 213471
- **Wikidata ID:** Q723042
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teinosuke_Kinugasa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455938/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213471

Writer. Born 1 January 1896 in Kameyama, Mie, Japan. Died 26 February 1982.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1896, Kameyama, Mie, Japan
- **Died:** 26 February 1982
- **Also known as:** 衣笠 貞之助, 키누가사 테이노스케, 테이노스케 키누가사, 기누가사 데이노스케, 데이노스케 기누가사, Тэйносукэ Кинугаса, Тэйноскэ Кинугаса
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teinosuke_Kinugasa, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723042, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455938/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/213471

## Biography

Teinosuke Kinugasa (衣笠 貞之助) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career as an actor specialising in female roles (onnagata) at the Nikkatsu studio before moving into directing in the early 1920s.

His best-known works include the avant-garde silent film *A Page of Madness* (1926) and the historical drama *Gate of Hell* (1953), the latter of which received the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1954 and the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. He contributed to the screenplay for the 1963 film *An Actor's Revenge*, an adaptation of his own earlier 1935 version.

Kinugasa was born on 1 January 1896 in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, and died on 26 February 1982 in Kyoto.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An Actor's Revenge* (1963), Fi1m 85, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/an-actors-revenge.md)

## Complete filmography (72)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Portrait of Shunkin* (1976), Screenplay
- *The Little Runaway* (1966), Director
- *Bronze Magician* (1963), Director, Screenplay
- *When Women Lie* (1963), Director
- *An Actor's Revenge* (1963), Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/an-actors-revenge.md)
- *The Lightning Sword* (1962), Screenplay
- *Okoto and Sasuke* (1961), Director
- *Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter* (1961), Screenplay
- *Blind Devotion* (1961), Writer, Director
- *Satan's Sword II: The Dragon God* (1960), Screenplay
- *Satan's Sword* (1960), Screenplay
- *The Beloved Image* (1960), Screenplay
- *What Price Love?* (1960), Screenplay
- *The Song Lantern* (1960), Screenplay, Director
- *Stop the Old Fox* (1959), Director, Writer
- *Actor Shark* (1959), Screenplay
- *Jōen* (1959), Director, Screenplay
- *The Snowy Heron* (1958), Director, Screenplay
- *The Barbarian and the Geisha* (1958), Script Supervisor
- *Ôsaka no onna* (1958), Director, Writer
- *Secret of Naruto* (1957), Director, Screenplay
- *Inazuma Kaidō* (1957), Writer
- *Floating Vessel* (1957), Director, Screenplay
- *Tsukigata Hanpeita* (1956), Director, Screenplay
- *Flowery Hood* (1956), Writer
- *Spark* (1956), Director, Screenplay
- *Three Women Around Yoshinaka* (1956), Director, Screenplay
- *Iroha Elegy* (1955), Screenplay
- *The Romance of Yushima* (1955), Screenplay, Director
- *A Girl Isn't Allowed to Love* (1955), Director
- *Tenka o nerau bishōnen* (1955), Screenplay
- *The Magistrate* (1955), Writer
- *Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi* (1955), Director, Screenplay
- *Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot* (1954), Screenplay
- *Tekka bugyō* (1954), Director, Adaptation
- *Hana no nagadosu* (1954), Director, Screenplay
- *Snowy Night Duel* (1954), Director, Screenplay
- *Gate of Hell* (1953), Director, Screenplay
- *Asama no karasu* (1953), Screenplay
- *Dedication of the Great Buddha* (1952), Director, Screenplay
- *Zoku Shurajō Hibun: Hiryū no Maki* (1952), Director, Screenplay
- *Castle of Carnage* (1952), Director, Screenplay
- *Lantern Under a Full Moon* (1951), Director, Screenplay
- *Tsuki no wataridori* (1951), Director, Screenplay
- *The Scarlet Bat* (1950), Director, Screenplay, Original Story
- *Koga Manshion* (1949), Screenplay, Director
- *Actress* (1947), Director, Writer
- *Four Love Stories* (1947), Director
- *Lord for a Night* (1946), Director
- *Kanchō umi no bara* (1945), Director
- *The Battle of Kawanakajima* (1941), Writer, Director
- *Zoku Hebihimesama* (1940), Director, Screenplay
- *The Snake Princess* (1940), Director, Screenplay
- *The Siege of Osaka* (1937), Director, Screenplay
- *Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen* (1936), Screenplay, Director
- *An Actor's Revenge* (1935), Director, Writer
- *With a Single Sword Bale* (1934), Director, Screenplay
- *Genpei the Carp* (1933), Writer, Director
- *Two Lanterns* (1933), Director, Screenplay
- *Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki* (1932), Director, Screenplay
- *The Loyal 47 Ronin* (1932), Director, Screenplay
- *Reimei izen* (1931), Director
- *Crossroads* (1928), Writer, Director
- *Chronicles of a Sea Country* (1928), Director
- *Benten kozo* (1928), Director
- *Demon Thistle* (1927), Director
- *A Page of Madness* (1926), Writer, Director, Producer
- *The Sun* (1925), Director
- *Two Little Birds* (1923), Director, Screenplay
- *Konishi Junsa* (1922), Director
- *The Living Corpse* (1918), Actor
- *Akatsuki* (1918), Actor

## Gallery

- ![衣笠貞之助 (1952)](https://film.one/media/person/3909778/gallery-57cf1de88c7f.jpg) 衣笠貞之助 (1952) — 朝日新聞社, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Kinugasa_Teinosuke.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Teinosuke Kinugasa](https://film.one/media/person/3909778/gallery-76c1d123e078.jpg) Teinosuke Kinugasa — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Teinosuke_Kinugasa.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Teinosuke Kinugasa](https://film.one/media/person/3909778/gallery-c21ccc51e76b.jpg) Teinosuke Kinugasa — Image via TMDB
- ![Teinosuke Kinugasa](https://film.one/media/person/3909778/gallery-a22ef1865837.jpg) Teinosuke Kinugasa — Image via TMDB

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