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Kisaku Itō

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Kisaku Itō (Japanese: 伊藤 熹朔, Hepburn: Itō Kisaku, 1 August 1899 – 31 March 2008[1]) was a Japanese art director.

He was born in Tokyo.[1] He developed a skill in drawing, and became among the most prominent set designers in Japanese cinema following World War II.[2]

He won the Mainichi Film Award for Best Art Direction for the 1953 film Ugetsu.[3] In 1955, he served as art director for She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "伊藤熹朔". Kodansha. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  2. ^ Takashi Sasayama, J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage, Cambridge University Press, 1998, p. 54, ISBN 0521470439.
  3. ^ "8th (1953)". Mainichi Film Awards. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  4. ^ Jacek Klinowski, Adam Garbicz, Jacek Klinowski & Adam Garbicz, Feature Cinema in the 20th Century: Volume Two: 1951-1963: A Comprehensive Guide, Planet RGB Limited, 2012, ISBN 1624075657.