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in 1952 (see 1952 in film

1952 in film

The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....

1952

Opening	Title	Director	\| Cast	Genre	Notes
1952 1952 in film The year 1952 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 10 - Cecil B. DeMille's circus epic, The Greatest Show on Earth, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City....
	Man in the Storm Man in the Storm Man in the Storm is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Kyôko Kagawa * Yaeko Mizutani * Yoichi Numata...	Kozo Saeki Kozo Saeki -Filmography:Filmography of Kozo Saeki include 110 films as film director and other works:* * The Badger Palace aka The Princess of Badger Palace -External links:...	Kyôko Kagawa Kyôko Kagawa is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in leading and supporting roles in such films as Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well and High and Low, Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, and Kenji Mizoguchi's Sansho the Bailiff.- Filmography :... , Yaeko Mizutani, Yoichi Numata Yoichi Numata Yoichi Numata was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 27 films between 1949 and 2001.-Selected filmography:* The Princess Blade * Ring * Jigoku * Man in the Storm...		Entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival 1952 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:The jury at this festival was all French.Maurice Genevoix Tony AubinMme. Georges BidaultPierre BillonChapelain-Midy Louis Chauvet *A...
	Children of Hiroshima Children of Hiroshima Children of Hiroshima is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. -Cast:* Nobuko Otowa - Takako Ishikawa* Osamu Takizawa - Iwakichi* Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa* Tsuneko Yamanaka...	Kaneto Shindō Kaneto Shindo , Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...	Nobuko Otowa Nobuko Otowa Nobuko Otowa was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 134 films between 1950 and 1994. She was married to film director Kaneto Shindō... Osamu Takizawa Osamu Takizawa was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. Starting at the Tsukiji Little Theater, Takizawa participated in a number of theatrical troupes before forming Gekidan Mingei with Jūkichi Uno. His was praised for his performance in Death of a Salesman and also directed a version of The...	Drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
	Dedication of the Great Buddha Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Shinobu Araki - Ryôben* Kôtarô Bandô* Kazuo Hasegawa - Kunihito Tateto* Sumiko Hidaka - Morime Ômiya* Tatsuya Ishiguro* Ryosuke Kagawa...	Teinosuke Kinugasa Teinosuke Kinugasa -External links:* *...	Kazuo Hasegawa Kazuo Hasegawa was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 290 films between 1927 and 1963.-Filmography:Filmography of Kazuo Hasegawa include :* also known as Crossroads, Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo... Machiko Kyō Machiko Kyo is a Japanese actress whose film work occurred primarily during the 1950s. She rose to extraordinary domestic praise in Japan for her work in two of the greatest Japanese films of the 20th century, Akira Kurosawa's Rashōmon and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu.Machiko trained to be a dancer before...	Jidaigeki Jidaigeki is a genre of film, television, and theatre in Japan. The name means "period drama" and is usually the Edo period of Japanese history, from 1603 to 1868. Some, however, are set much earlier—Portrait of Hell, for example, is set during the late Heian period—and the early Meiji era is also a popular...	Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival 1953 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Jean Cocteau Louis Chauvet Titina De Filippo Guy Desson Philippe Erlanger Renée Faure Jacques-Pierre Frogerais Abel Gance *André Lang...
	The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Yasujiro Ozu about a wealthy middle-aged couple who have marital difficulties...	Yasujiro Ozu Yasujiro Ozu was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work...	Shin Saburi Shin Saburi Shin Saburi was a Japanese film actor noted for his leading roles in a number of films by the director Yasujiro Ozu including Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family , Tea Over Rice , Equinox Flower and Late Autumn .-Selected filmography:* 1941 Brothers and... , Michiyo Kogure Michiyo Kogure was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 89 films between 1939 and 1984. She is perhaps best known for her starring role as the headstrong housewife who begins to tire of her dull, earnest husband in The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice .-Selected filmography:* * Portrait of Madame Yuki (31...	Drama
	*Foghorn*	Senkichi Taniguchi Senkichi Taniguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L...	Yoshiko Yamaguchi Toshirō Mifune Toshiro Mifune Toshirō Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo...
	Gendai-jin Gendai-jin is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ryō Ikebe* Isuzu Yamada* Sō Yamamura* Toshiko Kobayashi* Yūko Mochizuki* Shinsuke Ashida* Yumi Takano* Jun Tatara...	Minoru Shibuya Minoru Shibuya was a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended Keiō University but left before graduating. He joined Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Heinosuke Gosho, before making his debut as a director in 1937...	Ryo Ikebe Ryō Ikebe was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Rikkyō University and originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but ended up debuting as an actor at Tōhō in 1941. He did not achieve popularity until starring in a series of youth films in the late 1940s... Isuzu Yamada Isuzu Yamada is a Japanese actress on stage and screen whose career has spanned eight decades.-Career:Yamada was born in Osaka with the name Mitsu Yamada. Her father, Kusuo Yamada, was a shinpa stage actor specializing in onnagata roles and her mother, Ritsu, was a geisha...		Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival 1953 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Jean Cocteau Louis Chauvet Titina De Filippo Guy Desson Philippe Erlanger Renée Faure Jacques-Pierre Frogerais Abel Gance *André Lang...
	Ikiru Ikiru is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a minor Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning. The film stars Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe.-Plot:...	Akira Kurosawa Akira Kurosawa was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...	Takashi Shimura Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor.He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan.His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy ....	Drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...	Entered into the 4th Berlin International Film Festival 4th Berlin International Film Festival The 4th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 18 to June 29, 1954.-Films in competition:* Det stora äventyret by Arne Sucksdorff* Hobson's Choice by David Lean* Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa... , won Best Film at the 7th Mainichi Film Awards Mainichi Film Awards The Mainichi Film Awards are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun , one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan, since 1946.-Animation awards:...
	*Jewels in our Hearts*	Yasuke Chiba
	The Life of Oharu The Life of Oharu is a 1952 historical fiction black-and-white film by director Kenji Mizoguchi starring Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a one-time concubine of a daimyō who struggles to escape the stigma of having been sold into prostitution by her father...	Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...	Kinuyo Tanaka Kinuyo Tanaka was a Japanese actress and director.Tanaka was born in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. She became a leading actress at an early age, appearing in Yasujirō Ozu's I Graduated, But... in 1929...	Drama Drama film A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
	Lightning Lightning (film) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Mikio Naruse.The film won 1953 Blue Ribbon Awards for best director , best film and for best supporting actress Chieko Nakakita. It also won Mainichi Film Concours for best film score by Ichirō Saitō and again for best supporting actress Chieko...	Mikio Naruse Mikio Naruse was a Japanese filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer who directed some 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook...			Won Best Film at the 3rd Blue Ribbon Awards Blue Ribbon Awards The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers...
	*Love in a Teacup*	Yasuke Chiba
	The Man Who Came to Port The Man Who Came to Port is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Ishirō Honda....	Ishirō Honda Ishiro Honda Ishirō Honda , sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", was a Japanese film director...	Toshirō Mifune Toshiro Mifune Toshirō Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo... Asami Kuji
	*Swift Current*	Senkichi Taniguchi Senkichi Taniguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.Born in Tokyo, Japan, he attended Waseda University but left before graduating due to his involvement in a left-wing theater troupe. He joined P.C.L...	Toshirō Mifune Toshiro Mifune Toshirō Mifune was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo... Asami Kuji
	*Vendetta for a Samurai*	Kazuo Mori Kazuo Mori was a Japanese film director. He directed films from 1930s to 1970s.- Filmography :Kazuo Mori directed 131 films:* * Fighting Fire Fighter...

External links

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