About Buntarō Futagawa
Lived 1899 – 1966 (aged 66–67). Buntarō Futagawa was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
was a pioneering Japanese film director and writer. So far, only two of his works have been released on DVD: Orochi (, The Serpent, 1925) and the short film Backward Flow (, Gyakuryū, 1924). As a writer, he used another name: Otsuma Shinozuka .
Life Futagawa was born Kichinosuke Takizawa on 18 June 1899, in Misaki, Shiba, Tokyo (present-day Mita, Minato, Tokyo), to a family of tea merchants. His younger brother by three years was film director Eisuke Takizawa.
He studied business at Chuo University, but dropped out to join Taishō Katsuei in Yokohama in April 1921.
In the silent era, Futagawa worked with actor Tsumasaburō Bandō.
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Buntarō Futagawa was born in 1899 in Tokyo.
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Buntarō Futagawa died on 28 March 1966.
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