YoshitarÅ Nomura (野æ ' 芳太郎, Nomura YoshitarÅ , 23 April 1919
â€" 8 April 2005) was a prolific Japanese film director, film
producer, and screenwriter. His first accredited film, Pigeon (鳩,
Hato), was released in 1953; his last, Kikenna Onna-tachi
(å ±é™ºã ªå¥³ã Ÿã ¡, Kikenna Onna-tachi), in 1985. He has received
several awards during his career, including the Japanese Academy Award
for "Best Director" for his 1978 film The Demon.He was the son of
Hotei Nomura, a contract film director at the Shochiku film studio.
Nomura entered Keio University to study art in 1936, graduated in
1941, and then promptly joined the Shochiku studios as well. He was
first hired as an assistant director but before being assigned any
projects he was drafted into the army before being discharged in July
1946. In the fall of the same year, he returned to Shochiku and spent
his entire film career working there.During his years as an assistant
director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as
Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked
with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot, based on the novel by Fyodor
Dostoyevsky. In 1952, Nomura was promoted to director and made his
directorial debut in 1953 with the film Pigeon (鳩, Hato), which was
such a success that the studio gave him five more films to direct the
following year.
â€" 8 April 2005) was a prolific Japanese film director, film
producer, and screenwriter. His first accredited film, Pigeon (鳩,
Hato), was released in 1953; his last, Kikenna Onna-tachi
(å ±é™ºã ªå¥³ã Ÿã ¡, Kikenna Onna-tachi), in 1985. He has received
several awards during his career, including the Japanese Academy Award
for "Best Director" for his 1978 film The Demon.He was the son of
Hotei Nomura, a contract film director at the Shochiku film studio.
Nomura entered Keio University to study art in 1936, graduated in
1941, and then promptly joined the Shochiku studios as well. He was
first hired as an assistant director but before being assigned any
projects he was drafted into the army before being discharged in July
1946. In the fall of the same year, he returned to Shochiku and spent
his entire film career working there.During his years as an assistant
director, he worked under the helm of such legendary film directors as
Keisuke Sasaki, Yuzo Kawashima, and Akira Kurosawa, whom he worked
with in 1951 on the filming of The Idiot, based on the novel by Fyodor
Dostoyevsky. In 1952, Nomura was promoted to director and made his
directorial debut in 1953 with the film Pigeon (鳩, Hato), which was
such a success that the studio gave him five more films to direct the
following year.
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