Hideo Gosha

Hideo Gosha
Born	February 26, 1929(1929-02-26) Tokyo, Japan
Died	August 30, 1992(1992-08-30) (aged 63)
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Hideo Gosha (五社英雄, Gosha Hideo^?, February 26, 1929—August 30, 1992) was a Japanese film director.

Among his most famous films are Goyokin and Hitokiri, released in 1969, and The Wolves, released in 1971. His most famous film in the West is Sword of the Beast, released by Criterion.

Gosha's films are some of the darkest films from the samurai genre.

He won the 1984 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for The Geisha.^[1]

Filmography

1964 Three Outlaw Samurai
1965 Sword of the Beast
1966 Cash Calls Hell
1966 The Secret of the Urn
1966 Samurai Wolf
1967 Samurai Wolf II
1969 Goyokin
1969 Hitokiri
1971 The Wolves
1974 Violent Streets
1978 Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1979 Hunter in the Darkness
1982 Onimasa
1983 The Geisha
1984 Fireflies in the North
1985 Oar/Kai
1985 Tracked/Usugesho
1986 Death Shadow
1986 The Yakusa Wives
1987 Tokyo Bordello
1988 Carmen 1945
1989 226/Four Days of Snow and Blood
1991 Kagero
1992 The Oil-Hell Murder

References

^ "第 7 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品" (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=7. Retrieved 2011-01-13.

External links

A Director's Cuts: The Samurai Savvy Of Hideo Gosha at washingtonpost.com
An introduction to Gosha's Movies
Hideo Gosha at the Internet Movie Database
Hideo Gosha at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)

Films directed by Hideo Gosha

Sword of the Beast (1965) Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978) Onimasa (1982) The Geisha (1983)

Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year

Yoji Yamada (1978) · Yoshitaro Nomura (1979) · Shōhei Imamura (1980) · Seijun Suzuki (1981) · Kōhei Oguri (1982) · Kinji Fukasaku (1983) · Hideo Gosha (1984) · Juzo Itami (1985) · Shinichirō Sawai (1986) · Kinji Fukasaku (1987) · Juzo Itami (1988) · Junya Sato (1989) · Shōhei Imamura (1990) · Masahiro Shinoda (1991) · Kihachi Okamoto (1992) · Masayuki Suo (1993) · Yoji Yamada (1994) · Kinji Fukasaku (1995) · Kaneto Shindō (1996) · Masayuki Suo (1997) · Shōhei Imamura (1998) · Hideyuki Hirayama (1999) · Yasuo Furuhata (2000) · Junji Sakamoto (2001) · Isao Yukisada (2002) · Yoji Yamada (2003) · Yoshimitsu Morita (2004) · Yoichi Sai (2005) · Takashi Yamazaki (2006) · Lee Sang-il (2007) · Joji Matsuoka (2008) · Yōjirō Takita (2009) · Daisaku Kimura (2010)

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Name	Gosha, Hideo
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Date of birth	February 26, 1929
Place of birth	Tokyo, Japan
Date of death	August 30, 1992
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