Kinnosuke Takamatsu | |
Native Name Lang: | jpn |
Birth Name: | Tsunao Watanabe |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1898 |
Birth Place: | Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan |
Other Names: | Kyōsuke Takamatsu |
Occupation: | Actor |
was a Japanese actor.
Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Takamatsu acted in shinpa theater before joining Makino Film Productions in 1924.[1] He left the studio in 1926 and joined director Teinosuke Kinugasa in the independent production of the avant-garde film A Page of Madness, playing the crucial role of the bearded inmate. He later joined Ryunosuke Tsukigata's independent production company before moving to Shochiku. During World War II, he left the film business and focused on theater, but he returned to film in 1946 in Kenji Mizoguchi's Utamaro and His Five Women. He finished his career appearing in many Toei Company jidaigeki. He performed in over 200 films in his lifetime.