Mansaku Itami (1)

Mansaku Itami (伊丹万作; real name Yoshitoyo Ikeuchi 池内義豊; 2 January 1900 – 21 September 1946[1]) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his critical, sometimes satirical portraits of Japan and its history. He is the father of the director Juzo Itami.
Originally from Matsuyama, Ehime, Itami joined the Nikkatsu studio in 1927, but the very next year moved to the actor Chiezō Kataoka's company, Chiezō Productions, where he made his directorial debut with Adauchi Ruten.[1] His samurai films diverged from the norm in that they were not heroic epics of the sort which had by that time become formulaic, but rather satires that used the established symbols and iconography of the samurai culture to comment on both historical and modern society. His work was championed by the film critic Fuyuhiko Kitagawa. His most famous work is Akanishi Kakita, which is based on a story by Naoya Shiga and still survives (unlike many of his other films).

In 1937, he collaborated with director Arnold Fanck on a German-Japanese co-production, starring the young Setsuko Hara. This eventually became two slightly different films: Atarashiki Tsuchi (The New Earth) in Japan, while Die Tochter des Samurai (Daughter of the Samurai) was the German version.

He died of tuberculosis in 1946. His screenplays' popularity endured, however, and he is credited as a writer as recently as 1986's Kokushi Muso, a remake of his 1932 film of the same name. wiki

Director (14 credits)
1938 Kyojin-den
1937 Gonza to Sukejû
1937 La hija del samurai (Atarashiki tsuchi)
1936 Akanishi Kakita
1935 Chûji uridasu
1935 Sengoku kitan: Kimagure kaja
1934 Budo taikan
1933 Hôrimono kigu
1932 Yamiuchi tosei
1932 Kokushi muso
1931 Gozonji genji kozo
1931 Hanabi
1928 Katakiuchi ruten
1928 Zoku Banka jigoku: Dai ippen
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Enlaces completados:
OK Akanishi Kakita (Mansaku Itami, 1936)
OK Atarashiki tsuchi (Arnold Fanck & Mansaku Itami, 1937) [ver Arnold Franck]

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