Buntarō Futagawa (二川 文太郎, Futagawa Buntarō, 18 June 1899 – 28 March 1966) was a pioneering Japanese film director and writer. So far, only two of his works have been released on DVD: Orochi (Japanese: 雄呂血, The Serpent, 1925) and the short film Backward Flow (Japanese: 逆流, Gyakuryū, 1924). As a writer, he used another name: Otsuma Shinozuka (Japanese: 紫之塚 乙馬).[1]
Life
editFutagawa was born Kichinosuke Takizawa on 18 June 1899, in Misaki, Shiba, Tokyo (present-day Mita, Minato, Tokyo), to a family of tea merchants. His younger brother by three years was film director Eisuke Takizawa.[2]
He studied business at Chuo University, but dropped out to join Taishō Katsuei in Yokohama in April 1921.[2]
In the silent era, Futagawa worked with actor Tsumasaburō Bandō.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b 日本映画監督全集 (in Japanese), Kinema Junpo, 1976, p.345.
- ^ a b Kishi, Matsuo (1976). "二川文太郎". 日本映画監督全集: 345 – via キネマ旬報社.
External links
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- Buntaro Futagawa at IMDb
- Buntaro Futagawa at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- Otsuma Shinozuka at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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