Tatsumi Kumashiro Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tatsumi Kumashiro Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Tatsumi Kumashiro (神代 辰巳, Kumashiro Tatsumi) was a Japanese

film director known for his critically acclaimed, award-winning Roman

Porno films, such as Ichijo's Wet Lust (1972) and The Woman with Red

Hair (1979). He was the most highly acclaimed director of the early

Nikkatsu Roman Porno era, with many box-office successes, and films

regularly appearing on the yearly Best Ten lists of the mainstream

Kinema Junpo and Eiga Geijutsu film journals. Kumashiro has been

called, "the most consistently successful director in Japan's

cinematic history," and Allmovie calls him, "arguably the most

important Japanese director to emerge during the 1970s."Tatsumi

Kumashiro was born on April 24, 1927 in Saga, on KyÅ«shÅ«â€"the

southernmost of Japan's four main islands. His father was a

pharmaceuticals merchant and judo master descended from the samurai

class. A strict disciplinarian, Kumashiro's father believed in the

warrior philosophy of Yamamoto Tsunetomo as written in Hagakure and

supported Japan's military exploits of the 1930s and 1940s. Early in

life Kumashiro rebelled against this upbringing by immersing himself

in film and Western literature. During World War II, Kumashiro entered

medical school as a means of avoiding the draft, but dropped out as

soon as the war ended in Japan's defeat. He studied English literature

at Waseda University, but, deciding he could not make a living writing

novels, entered Shochiku studio as an assistant director in 1952, and

moved to Nikkatsu in 1955.Kumashiro worked as an assistant director

and screenwriter until he was finally given a chance to direct in

1968. His debut film, Front Row Life, told the story of a stripper and

her daughter who wished to join her mother's profession. The star of

the movie, Hatsue Tonooka, became Kumashiro's wife later in the year,

though the marriage ended in divorce within a few months. Front Row

Life anticipated Kumashiro's later career in its focus on striptease

performers. The film was a critical success, but because it failed at

the box-office Nikkatsu put Kumashiro's directing career on hold

again.In 1971, facing bankruptcy due to a loss of their audience to

television, Nikkatsu decided to devote its facilities almost

exclusively to theatrical soft-core pornography. Several directors,

not wishing to work in pornography, left the studio, opening up vacant

positions.
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