Hiroshi Inagaki

Infobox Actor
name = Hiroshi Inagaki
birthdate = birth date|1905|12|30
birthplace = Tokyo, Japan
deathdate = death date and age|1980|05|21|1905|12|30
deathplace = Tokyo, Japan
yearsactive = 1923 - 1996
occupation = director, screenwriter, producer, actor
academyawards = Academy Honorary Award
1956 "Miyamoto Musashi"
awards = Golden Lion
1958 "Rickshaw Man"

Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣浩 Inagaki Hiroshi; 30 December 1905 – 21 May 1980) was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Award-winning "Samurai Trilogy", which he directed. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor.

His 1958 film "Rickshaw Man" won the Golden Lion award at that year's Venice Film Festival.

Filmography

(incomplete)

as film director
* 1952 "Sword for Hire" (Sengoku burai)
* "Samurai Trilogy"
** 1954 ""
** 1955 ""
** 1956 ""
* 1955 "The Lone Journey" aka "The Road" (Tabiji)
* 1957 "Ninjitsu" (Yagyu bugeicho)
* 1957 "Rickshaw Man" * 1958 "Yagyu Secret Scrolls" (Yagyu bugeicho Ninjitsu) - part 2
* 1959 "The Birth of Japan" (日本誕生, Nippon Tanjō), also called "The Three Treasures"
* 1962 "Chushingura" with Toshiro Mifune
* 1969 "Samurai Banners" (風林火山, Fūrin Kazan)

as producer:
* 1969 "Shinsengumi (1969 film)"

External links

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* [http://www.horror-house.jp/e/cat2/hiroshi-inagaki-19051980.html Hiroshi Inagaki's grave]