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: [[:ja:逆流 (映画)|逆流]], Gyakuryū, 1924). As a writer, he used another name: Otsuma Shinozuka (Japanese: 紫之塚 乙馬).[1]
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.[2]
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.