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- Keisuke Kinoshita was born on December 5, 1912 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Twenty-Four Eyes (1954), The Ballad of Narayama (1958) and The Garden of Women (1954). He died on December 30, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Directed Japan's first color film: Carmen Comes Home (1951).
- Keisuke Kinoshita, Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa and Masaki Kobayashi founded their own company, Yonki No Kai ('Club of The Four Knights'), in 1969 to assert an independent film making process and escape the studio system. They managed to produce only one movie, Kurosawa's Dodes'ka-den (1970).
- Is the Mentor of Masaki Kobayashi.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 542-549. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
- Brother of Chûji Kinoshita.
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