Kinugasa Teinosuke

Kinugasa Teinosuke (born Jan. 1, 1896, Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, Japan—died Feb. 26, 1982, Kyōto) was the first Japanese motion-picture director to present his story from the point of view of one of the characters and thus create a subjective world in a film. He also pioneered in the use of flashbacks and in the creation of visual atmospheric effect. From 1917 to 1922 Kinugasa was an oyama, a male actor who played female roles. He...