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Mitsuo Kurotsuchi (Japanese: 黒土三男, 3 March 1947 – 25 March 2023) was a Japanese director and screenwriter.




Life and career


Born in Kumamoto, after graduating from the Faculty of Law at Rikkyo University, Kurotsuchi started his career as an assistant director at Kinoshita Keisuke Productions and later worked for two years as a freelance scriptwriter, making his debut as a TV scriptwriter in 1978 with Comet-san, broadcast on TBS Television. He made his film debut in 1989 with Music Box. For about a decade, he had a close professional association both as screenwriter and director with actor Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, but their collaboration ended in 1999 over artistic disagreements on the set of the film Eiji. In 2005 he was awarded best director at the Japanese Movie Critics Awards for The Samurai I Loved. He died of multiple organ failure on 25 March 2023, at the age of 76.




Filmography


Music Box (1989)
Traffic Jam (1991)
Eiji (1999)
The Samurai I Loved (2005)
Hoshigure no machi (2018)




References






External links


Mitsuo Kurotsuchi at IMDb

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• Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
• The Samurai I Loved
• Ken Ogata
• Ritsuko Nemoto
• Deaths in March 2023
• Yūko Nakamura
• List of Japanese films of 2005
• 29th Japan Academy Film Prize
• Japanese Movie Critics Awards
• 28th Moscow International Film Festival