was a Japanese film and stage actor

Actor

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 and film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 who contributed to the development of film

Film

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 and stage art in Japan

Japan

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Career

Born in Ehime Prefecture

Ehime Prefecture

is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama.-History:Until the Meiji Restoration, Ehime prefecture was known as Iyo Province...

, Inoue first appeared on stage at age 17. Starting out in traveling theatrical troupes, he made his debut on the Tokyo stage in 1905 as a member of Hōyō Ii's troupe. He soon became a prominent performer in shinpa

Shinpa

is a form of theater and cinema in Japan usually featuring melodramatic stories. Its roots can be traced to a form of agitation propaganda theater in the 1880s promoted by Liberal Party members Sadanori Sudo and Otojirō Kawakami...

 theater, and in 1910 founded the Shin Jidaigeki Kyōkai. He also started his own acting school in 1936 and was elected to the Japan Art Academy

Japan Art Academy

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 in 1949.

Inoue was an early supporter of cinema and directed a reformist film, The Captain's Daughter (Taii no musume, 1917) for Kobayashi Shōkai, at the time of the Pure Film Movement

Pure Film Movement

The was a trend in film criticism and filmmaking in 1910s and early 1920s Japan that advocated what were considered more modern and cinematic modes of filmmaking. Critics in such magazines as Kinema Record and Kinema Junpo complained that existing Japanese cinema was overly theatrical...

. He is most famous in the West for his starring role in Teinosuke Kinugasa

Teinosuke Kinugasa

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's experimental masterpiece A Page of Madness

A Page of Madness

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(1926), which he helped support by refusing payment for his services.

As actor

• Kantsubaki (寒椿) (1921)
• Aa mujō (噫無情) (1923)
• Daichi wa hohoemu (大地は微笑む) (1925)
• A Page of Madness
  A Page of Madness
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  (狂った一頁, Kurutta Ippēji or Kurutta Ichipeiji) (1926)
• Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki
  Kane no naru oka: Dai san hen, kuro no maki
  is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Keisuke Sasaki.-Cast:* Keiji Sada* Taeko Takasugi* Masao Inoue* Michiko Namiki* Tōdō Gekidan...
  
  (鐘の鳴る丘 第三篇クロの巻) (1949)

As director

• The Captain's Daughter (大尉の娘, Taii no musume) (1917)

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