Senkichi Taniguchi

Productor, Director, Escritor, Editor

19 de febrero de 1912 — 29 de octubre de 2007 (95 años)
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Senkichi Taniguchi (February 19, 1912 – October 29, 2007) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L. (a precursor to Toho) in 1933 and began working as an assistant director to Kajirō Yamaguchi alongside his longtime friend, acclaimed Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa. He made his feature film directing debut in 1947 with Snow Trail, which was written by Kurosawa. Snow Trial starred Toshirō Mifune in his film debut and actress Setsuko Wakayama. It helped establish Taniguchi's reputation for action film.

Taniguchi and Wakayama married in 1949 (he had earlier been married to the screenwriter Yōko Mizuki), but the couple divorced in 1956. Taniguchi married his second wife, actress Kaoru Yachigusa, in 1957. Yachigusa and Taniguchi remained together for over fifty years until his death in 2007.

Taniguchi was the screenwriter for the 1949 film, The Quiet Duel, which Kurosawa directed and which also starred Mifune. His most acclaimed film as a director was Escape at Dawn, a controversial anti-war work from 1950 about a Japanese soldier and a "comfort woman" that got into trouble with Occupation era censors. Taniguchi continued to direct movies throughout the 1950s and 1960s, but the quality of his work declined. His films from the time period include Man Against Man, The Gambling Samurai, Man In The Storm and The Lost World of Sinbad. His 1965 film International Secret Police: Key of Keys has been famously re-dubbed and re-released as What's Up, Tiger Lily? by Woody Allen. He was chosen as the supervising director of the official documentary of Expo '70.

Senkichi Taniguchi died of pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, Japan, on October 29, 2007, at the age of 95.

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Películas y series en Plex

  • El perro rabioso
    El perro rabioso1949
  • Duelo silencioso
    Duelo silencioso1949

Conocido por

  • El perro rabioso
    El perro rabioso1949
  • Lily la tigresa
    Lily la tigresa1966
  • Duelo silencioso
    Duelo silencioso1949
  • Snow Trail
    Snow Trail1947
  • Las olimpiadas de Tokio
    Las olimpiadas de Tokio1965
  • The Lost World of Sinbad
    The Lost World of Sinbad1963
  • Aventura en el castillo de Kigan
    Aventura en el castillo de Kigan1966
  • International Secret Police: Key of Keys
    International Secret Police: Key of Keys1965
  • Desertion at Dawn
    Desertion at Dawn1950
  • The Killing Bottle
    The Killing Bottle1967
  • Jakoman and Tetsu
    Jakoman and Tetsu1964
  • Shiosai
    Shiosai1954
  • Los guerrilleros del general Lung
    Los guerrilleros del general Lung1962

Filmography

1965
Tokyo Olympiad · as Associate Producer
1962
1949
Stray Dog · as Associate ProducerEn Plex

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