Gosho Heinosuke

Gosho Heinosuke (born Feb. 1, 1902, Tokyo—died May 1, 1981, Shizuoka, Japan) was a Japanese motion-picture director and writer famous for films concerning the everyday lives of middle-class people. He is also noted for adapting Japanese literary works to the screen and for his creative use of silence in sound pictures, subtle pictorial symbols, and rapid sequences of scenes. After graduating from Keio University in Tokyo, he became an assistant director at the Shōchiku Motion...