was a Japanese
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
. He directed films from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Career
Sugie was born in
Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture (currently
Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City). After graduating from the
Waseda University
Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...
, Sugie joined
P.C.L/Photo Chemical Laboratory (latter became
Toho
is a Japanese entertainment company that primarily engages in producing and distributing films and exhibiting stage plays. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. ...
) in 1937. He worked as an assistant director for
Kajiro Yamamoto,
Shiro Toyoda,
Yasujiro Shimazu,
Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.
Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily Shoshimin-eiga, shōshimin-eiga ("common people drama") films with f ...
, and
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the History of film, history of cinema ...
. In 1950, he directed his first feature film,
The Gate of Tokyo. Since then, Sugie directed romance dramas ("
I Can't Say The Person's Name" and "
Oblivion Petals"), youth movies such as "
Janken Musume", " He even supported Toho as a location director who filmed in various places with the comedy starring the "
Company President Series" and
Crazy Cats.
Even on a public basis, mass production in the Japanese art world, with 6 in 1955, 7 in 1956, 5 in 1957, 4 in 1958, 4 in 1959, 5 in 1960, 6 in 1961 ... In that times, he continued to produce projects that came from the company one after another without a break, and left 68 directing works in less than 20 years. He was the flagship of program pictures centered on so-called comedy films and youth films, but Sugie himself said he wanted to direct suspense films, such as "
Sanjûrokunin no jôkyaku" and "
Death on the Mountain". Suspense works, which are rare among the director's works, are still highly evaluated.
From the latter half of the 1960s, the number of directors of theatrical films decreased due to the sunshine of the Japanese film industry, and he moved to the
Toho TV Club to direct TV dramas.
Filmography
* ''
So Young, So Bright'' (ジャンケン娘 Janken musume) (1955)
* ''
Romantic Daughters'' (Romansu musume) (1956)
* ''
On Wings of Love'' (Ōatari sanshoku musume) aka ''Big Hit Three Color Daughters'' (1957)
* ''
Sengoku gunto-den'' or ''
Saga of the Vagabonds'' (1959) (Screen play by
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the History of film, history of cinema ...
)
* ''
Daigaku no Wakadaishō'' (1961)
References
External links
*
Japanese film directors
1913 births
1996 deaths
Waseda University alumni
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