Yuzo Kawashima
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Yuzo Kawashima (川島雄三 Kawashima Yūzō?) (4 February 1918-11 June 1963) was a notable Japanese filmmaker, most famous for making tragi-comic films dealing with the lives of lower-class Japanese people, especially those involved in petty crime or employed in red light districts. He was a key influence on the Shohei Imamura, who referred to him as "my teacher." Imamura later remade Kawashima's 1957 film Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate as Eijanka.
Kawashima was born in Mutsu, Aomori and educated at Meiji University. Like many Japanese directors of the period, Kawashima was very prolific, completing 36 films during a career that only lasted 19 years.
[edit] External links
- Yuzo Kawashima at IMDB
- Notes on a Kawashima Retrospective (in French)
- Review of Kawashima's Graceful Brute at The House Next Door
- 川島雄三 (Yuzo Kawashima) (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database
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