Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介 Kinoshita Keisuke) was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket."[2] While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasujirō Ozu, he was a household figure in his home country, beloved by both...
Place of Birth: Shizuoka, Japan
Date of Birth: Dec 3, 1912
Date of Death: Dec 30, 1998