山中貞雄
Sadao Yamanaka (山中 貞雄, Yamanaka Sadao, November 7, 1909 – September 17, 1938) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed 26 films between 1932 and 1938. He was a contemporary of Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse and Kenji Mizoguchi and one of the primary figures in the development of the jidaigeki, or historical film. Yamanaka began his career in the Japanese film industry at the age of 20 as a writer and assistant director for the Makino company. In 1932, he began working for Kanjuro Productions, a small, independent film company similar to many others founded during the same period as it was centered around a popular jidaigeki film star, this time Kanjuro Arashi. Here, he began directing his first films, all of which were jidaigeki. During his first year at Kanjuro, he made six films. He was "discovered" by the critic Matsuo Kishi and gained a reputation for creating films that escaped clichés and focused on social injustices. Early on, he had stated an interest in blurring the lines between several genres: comedy, historical epics, and comedy-dramas focusing on average people. Viewers and critics note in his surviving films the genesis of ideas later explored by the internationally successful Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujirō Ozu and Seijun Suzuki. He formed the Narutaki-gumi with his friends, and they wrote under the pseudonym Kimpachi Kajiwara. Yamanaka has been characterized as a minimalist, one whose style favoured elegance and rhythm. During the 1
Фильмы и сериалы
- Человечность и бумажные шары (1937), режиссёр
- 丹下左膳餘話 百萬兩の壺 (1935), режиссёр
- Сосюн Котияма (1936), режиссёр
- 戦国群盗傳 (1959), сценарий
- Шестой героический подвиг Умона. Необыкновенная история в храме Ниннадзи (1930), сценарий
- その前夜 (1939)
- 盤嶽の一生 (1933), сценарий
- 水戸黄門 来国次の巻 (1934), сценарий
- 雁太郎街道 (1934), режиссёр
- 水戸黄門 密書の巻 (1935), сценарий
- 水戸黄門 血刃の巻 (1935), сценарий
- 右門一番手柄 南蛮幽霊 (1929), сценарий
- 朱鞘罷り通る (1956)
- 磯の源太 抱寝の長脇差 (1932), режиссёр
- 鼠小僧次郎吉・中篇 道中の巻 (1933), режиссёр
- 鼠小僧次郎吉・江戸の巻 (1933), режиссёр
- 鼠小僧次郎吉 再び江戸の巻 (1933), режиссёр
- 風流活人剣 (1934), режиссёр
- 街の入墨者 (1935), режиссёр
- 森の石松 (1937), режиссёр