FILM DIRECTOR

Keisuke Kinoshita

1912 - 1998

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Keisuke Kinoshita (木下 惠介, Kinoshita Keisuke, December 5, 1912 – December 30, 1998) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. 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 critics and audiences from the 1940s to the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Keisuke Kinoshita has received more than 152,001 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Keisuke Kinoshita is the 612th most popular film director (up from 614th in 2019), the 896th most popular biography from Japan (down from 854th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Japanese Film Director.

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  • 150k

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  • 52.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Keisuke Kinoshita has had the most page views in the with 64,234 views, followed by English (23,512), and Chinese (4,505). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (22.98%), German (18.34%), and Ukrainian (16.89%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 612 out of 2,041. Before him are John Glen, Christian Petzold, Mamoru Hosoda, Yoji Yamada, Robert Enrico, and Brad Bird. After him are Hal Ashby, Jim Sheridan, Jean Rollin, Georges Franju, Andrew Birkin, and Tran Anh Hung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 165. Before him are Eve Arnold, Kurt Sanderling, Wendy Hiller, Alfred Schwarzmann, Rihei Sano, and Boun Oum. After him are B. D. Jatti, Georges Franju, Christopher Hill, Claude Pompidou, Nie Er, and Nick Cravat. Among people deceased in 1998, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 126. Before him are Jerome Robbins, Louis Dumont, Lia Manoliu, Klaus Tennstedt, John Chadwick, and Samuel Eilenberg. After him are Qian Zhongshu, Nazim al-Qudsi, Norberto Méndez, Antonio Saura, Joan Brossa, and Lev Dyomin.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 896 out of 6,245. Before him are Hiroshi Katayama (1940), Rihei Sano (1912), Sachi Kagawa (null), Mamoru Hosoda (1967), Takeo Arishima (1878), and Yoji Yamada (1931). After him are Sadako Ogata (1927), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Keiko Abe (1937), Kusumoto Ine (1827), Masaki Yokotani (1952), and Tetsurō Tamba (1922).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Keisuke Kinoshita ranks 33. Before him are Gorō Miyazaki (1967), Osamu Dezaki (1943), Rintaro (1941), Juzo Itami (1933), Mamoru Hosoda (1967), and Yoji Yamada (1931). After him are Yoshiaki Kawajiri (1950), Tomoyuki Tanaka (1910), Yasuzo Masumura (1924), Sion Sono (1961), Shinobu Hashimoto (1918), and Tadashi Imai (1912).

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Filmography

Carmen Comes Home
Director
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Mar 21o 19516.6 / 10
The Ballad of Narayama
Director
In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads to a voluntary but socially-enforced policy in which relatives carry 70-year-old family members up Narayama mountain to die. Granny Orin is approaching 70, content to embrace her fate. Her widowed son Tatsuhei cannot bear losing his mother, even as she arranges his marriage to a widow his age. Her grandson Kesa, who's girlfriend is pregnant, is selfishly happy to see Orin die. Around them, a family of thieves are dealt with severely, and an old man, past 70, whose son has cast him out, scrounges for food. Will Orin's loving and accepting spirit teach and ennoble her family?
Jun 1o 19587.5 / 10
Twenty-Four Eyes
Director
In 1928, schoolteacher Hisako Oishi takes a post on the island of Shodoshima teaching a group of twelve first grade students. In the following years, they face poverty, the rise of nationalism, and finally war.
Sep 15o 19547.732 / 10