Mitsuo Kurotsuchi

Mitsuo Kurotsuchi
黒土三男
Kurotsuchi in 1999
Born	3 March 1947 (1947-03-03) Kumamoto, Japan
Died	25 March 2023 (2023-03-26) (aged 76)
Occupation(s)	Director Screenwriter

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.^[1][2] He made his film debut in 1989 with Music Box.^[2] 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.^[3] In 2005 he was awarded best director at the Japanese Movie Critics Awards for The Samurai I Loved.^[4] He died of multiple organ failure on 25 March 2023, at the age of 76.^[2]

Filmography

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

References

1. "第7回向田邦子賞 - 東京ニュース通信社". Tokyo News. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
2. "脚本家の黒土三男さん死去 76歳 「とんぼ」「オレゴンから愛」：朝日新聞デジタル". The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 3 April 2023. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
3. "（2ページ目）「長渕剛」20年ぶり映画主演でもお蔵入りの危機". Daily Shincho (in Japanese). 25 April 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
4. "過去の受賞作品 ｜ 日本映画批評家大賞 公式サイト". Japanese Movie Critics Awards. Retrieved 3 April 2023.

External links

• Mitsuo Kurotsuchi at IMDb