Thomas Kurihara

Thomas Kurihara
トーマス・栗原
Born(1885-01-24)24 January 1885
Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan
Died8 September 1926(1926-09-08) (aged 41)
Tokyo, Japan
Other names栗原喜三郎
Occupationsactor, film director
Years active1914–1923

Thomas Kurihara (トーマス・栗原, Thomas Kurihara; 24 January 1885 – 8 September 1926) was a Japanese actor and film director.[1]

Life

Thomas Kurihara, birth name Kisaburō Kurihara (栗原喜三郎), was born in Hadano, Kanagawa.[2] Kurihara's father was a wood trader, but he failed in business. Kurihara went to United States and enrolled in a school for film actors in 1912. After graduation, working as an extra, he entered director Thomas Ince's Oriental Production Company, which Ince founded to feature Asian actors.[3] There he worked with Sesshu Hayakawa, Tsuruko Aoki, Goro Kino and many other Japanese actors. Performance of Takeo in The Wrath of the Gods (1914) made him famous.[4]

Hoping to work film industry in his country, Kurihara went back to Japan in 1918, and entered Taishō Katsuei in April 1920, a film production which Ryozō Asano of Asano zaibatsu (Kurihara's acquaintance) founded at Yamashita-cho, Yokohama.[5] There he started his career as film director. His first work at Taisho was Amateur Club (1920), which Junichiro Tanizaki joined as a film writer.[6]

Until Taisho Katsudo Eiga stopped to making films in 1922 Kurihara made more than 30 films. He also taught many film directors and actors: Tomu Uchida, Kintaro Inoue and Buntaro Futagawa; Tokihiko Okada, Michiko Hayama, Ureo Egawa and Atsushi Watanabe.

Kurihara died on 8 September 1926 at the age of 41.

Filmography

as an actor

as a film director

  • Haru wa kaeru (Spring comes back) (1924)
  • Zoku Amateur Club (1923)
  • Yume no tabiji (The Dream of Orient) (1921)
  • Narikin (Sanji Goto - The Story of Japanese Enoch Arden) (1921)
  • Kashu Daigaku Yakyudan Raicho-sen Jokkyo (Report on the Friendly Match versus California State College Baseball Team) (1921)
  • Kisen Houshi (Kisen the Monk) (1921)
  • Shuppan mae kai shimon (1921)
  • Beikoku Kyokugei Hikou (1921)
  • Hinamatsuri no yoru (Night of Doll Festival) (1921)
  • Kami no Setsuri (The Providence of God) (1921)
  • Goman-en (Fifty thousand Yen) (1921)
  • Doro no Sainan (1921)
  • Ganjitsu no Satsuei (Shots on New Year Day) (1921)
  • Jasei no in (A Serpent's Lust) (1921)
  • Meiji Junguu Chinzasai (1920)
  • Goto Sanji (1920)
  • Katsushika Sunako (1920)
  • Utsukushiki Nippon (Japan: the beautiful) (1920)
  • Amateur Club (1920)

as a film writer

  • Haru wa kaeru (1924)
  • Yume no tabiji (The Dream of Orient) (1921)

References

  1. ^ Anderson, Joseph L.; Richie, Donald (5 June 2018). The Japanese Film: Art and Industry - Expanded Edition. Princeton University Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-0-691-18746-4.
  2. ^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-7864-1059-0.
  3. ^ Colón Semenza, Greg M.; Hasenfratz, Robert J. (2017). The History of British Literature on Film, 1895-2015. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-5013-2985-2.
  4. ^ Sharp, Jasper (2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8.
  5. ^ Ito, Ken (1991). Visions of Desire: Tanizaki’s Fictional Worlds. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8047-6607-4.
  6. ^ Richie, Donald (2005). A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History. Kodansha International. p. 36. ISBN 978-4-7700-2995-9.
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