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Buntarō Futagawa

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Name
  
Buntaro Futagawa

Died
  
March 28, 1966

Siblings
  
Eisuke Takizawa

Role
  
Film director

Movies
  
Orochi, Gyakuryu

Buntaro Futagawa

Buntaro futagawa 1925 orochi the serpent


Buntarō Futagawa (二川 文太郎, Futagawa Buntarō, 18 Jun 1899 – 28 March 1966) was a pioneering Japanese film director and writer. So far, only two of his works have been released on DVD: Orochi (Japanese: 雄呂血, The Serpent, 1925) and the short film Backward Flow (Japanese: 逆流, Gyakuryū, 1924). In the silent era, he also worked with the actor Tsumasaburō Bandō. As a writer, he used another name: Otsuma Shinozuka (Japanese: 紫之塚 乙馬).

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Buntarō Futagawa Wikipedia