Masao Inoue (actor)

Masao Inoue
Masao Inoue
	Masao Inoue in 1928
Born	June 15, 1881; Ehime
Died	February 7, 1950 (aged 68)
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation(s)	Stage and film actor, director

Masao Inoue (井上正夫, Inoue Masao, 15 June 1881 - 7 February 1950) was a Japanese film and stage actor and film director who contributed to the development of film art in Japan. A famous performer in shinpa theater, Inoue was an early supporter of cinema and directed a reformist film, The Captain's Daughter (Taii no musume, 1917), at the time of the Pure Film Movement. He is most famous in the West for his starring role in Teinosuke Kinugasa's experimental masterpiece A Page of Madness (1926), which he supported so much he did not ask for compensation.^[1]

References

^ Gerow, Aaron (2008). A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. pp. 22–23. ISBN 9781929280513.. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)

External links

Masao Inoue at IMDb
Inoue Masao at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

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[1] Gerow, Aaron (2008). A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan. pp. 22–23. ISBN 9781929280513.. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)

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