Heinosuke Gosho

Heinosuke Gosho (五所平之助, Gosho Heinosuke, 24 January 1902 – 1 May 1981) was a Japanese film director who directed Japan's first talkie, The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, in 1931. He once served as president of the Directors Guild of Japan.^[1]

Selected filmography[edit]

Aiyoku no ki (愛慾の記) (1930)
The Neighbor's Wife and Mine (マダムと女房, Madamu to nyōbō) (1931)
Izu no odoriko (恋の花咲く　伊豆の踊子, Koi no hana saku Izu no odoriko)(1933)
A Burden of Life (人生のお荷物, Jinsei no onimotsu) (1935)
Somniloquy of the Bridegroom (花婿の寝言, Hanamuko no negoto) (1935)
Song of the Flower Basket (花籠の歌, Hanakago no uta) (1935)
Lady of the Night with a Hazy Moon (朧夜の女, Oboroyo no onna) (1936)
The New Road (Part one) (新道前篇, Shindō zenhen) (1936)
The New Road (Part two) (新道後篇, Shindō kōhen) (1936)
Incompatible Relations (木石, Bokuseki) (1940)
Ima Hitotabi no (今ひとたびの, 1947)
Entotsu no mieru basho (煙突の見える場所, English titles include: Where Chimneys Are Seen a.k.a. Four Chimneys (1953)
When a Cloud Breaks Off (雲がちぎれる時) (1953)
Inn at Osaka (大阪の宿, Osaka no yado) (1954)
Takekurabe (たけくらべ Takekurabe), English titles include: Adolescence a.k.a. Growing Up Twice a.k.a. Growing Up a.k.a. Child's Play (1955)
Yellow Crow (黄色いからす, Kiiroi karasu) (1957)
Banka (a.k.a., Northern Elegy or Elegy of the North) (挽歌, 1957)
Hunting Rifle (Hunting Gun) (猟銃) (1961)
Kaachan kekkon shiroyo (1962)
The Innocent Witch (Osorezan no onna) (1965)
Utage (1967)
A Woman and the Beancurd Soup (1968)

^ "Nihon eiga kantoku kyōkai nenpyō" (in Japanese). Nihon eiga kantoku kyōkai. Archived from the original on 26 July 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2010.

Nolletti, Arthur (2005). The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter through Tears. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-34484-0

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