Biografie

5. Dezember 1912 · Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

30. Dezember 1998 · Tokio, Japan (Schlaganfall)

Directed Japan's first color film: Carmen kehrt heim (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 Dodeskaden - Menschen im Abseits (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.