RIP Minoru Inuzuka

The last director to have made a silent film in the 1920s died last month. While Portugal’s Manoel De Oliveira, who made Douro, Faina Fluvial in 1931 is still with us (and still working), Japan’s Minoru Inuzuka directed his first silent feature in 1927, Sunae shibari: Dai-nihen, having previously contributed to the script of Kinugasa’s classic Kurutta ippêji (A Page of Madness) (1926). He was 106 years old.

One Response to “RIP Minoru Inuzuka”

  1. Stummfilm-Blog Says:

    Minoru Inuzuka gestorben

    Gerade bei The Bioscope entdeckt:
    Der japanische Regisseur Minoru Inuzuka starb letzten Monat mit 106 Jahren. Minoru Inuzuka war 1926 am Buch zu Kurutta ippêji (A Page of Madness) beteiligt. 1927 drehte er mit Sunae shibari: Dai-nihen seinen ersten F…

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