Keisuke Kinoshita

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. Kinoshita's films were marked by a sense of sentimentality, purity, and beauty, and often featured experimentation in both technique and subject matter.

Kinoshita entered the film industry in 1933 as a film processor. He moved on to the position of camera assistant, then assistant director. In 1943, Kinoshita was promoted to director and released his first film, ''Port of Flowers''. A prolific filmmaker, Kinoshita directed 43 films in the first 23 years of his career, and then five more after a stint in television production. Among his best known films are ''Carmen Comes Home'' (1951), ''A Japanese Tragedy'' (1953), ''Twenty-Four Eyes'' (1954), ''She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum'' (1955) and ''The Ballad of Narayama'' (1958). Provided by Wikipedia