Teruyo Nogami Explained

Teruyo Nogami
Native Name:野上照代
Native Name Lang:Japanese
Birth Date:1927 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Tokyo, Japan
Education:Kobe University
Years Active:1950–2002
Honours:Lifetime Achievement Award

is a Japanese film script supervisor and author.[1] She is best known for her work on many of Akira Kurosawa's films, a partnership that began in 1950.

Life and career

Nogami was born in Tokyo as the daughter of Iwao Nogami, a scholar of German literature and professor at Kobe University after the war. In 1943, she graduated from the Metropolitan Girls' School of Home Economics. She entered the library training school.[2] In 1944, she graduated from the Library Training Institute, and took up a position at the former Yamaguchi High School Library in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After the war she returned to Tokyo and in 1946 she joined the People's Daily and in 1947 she joined Yakumo Shoten.[3]

When she was a student circa 1941, she saw Mansaku Itami's Akanishi Kakita (1936) and wrote a fan letter to him.[4] She became pen pals with the director.[4] After Itami's death, Nogami became an apprentice script supervisor at Daiei's Kyoto Studio in 1949.[1] She began her career as a script supervisor on Akira Nobuchi's Fukkatsu (1950).[1] That year, she also participated in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon as a script supervisor.[4] In 1951, she moved to Toho and participated in all Kurosawa films after Ikiru as recording, editing and production assistant.[5] In the meantime, she has also been enrolled in Sun Ad since 1966, and has also worked on commercial production. In 1979 she left the company.[6] In 1984, she won the Yomiuri Human Documentary Award for Excellence for Requiem for Father, which depicts her childhood. In 2008, director Yoji Yamada turned this into a movie called .[7]

Filmography

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 35th TIFF Announces Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Nogami Teruyo . 2023-05-27 . Tokyo International Film Festival.
  2. Book: McKim, Kristi . Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change . 2013-03-05 . Routledge . 978-1-136-66209-6 . en.
  3. Book: Brode . Douglas . Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology . Deyneka . Leah . 2012-06-14 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-8512-7 . en.
  4. Book: Nogami, Teruyo . Waiting on the Weather: Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa . 2006-09-01 . Stone Bridge Press, Inc. . 978-1-933330-09-9 . en.
  5. Book: Russell, Catherine . Classical Japanese Cinema Revisited . 2011-06-16 . A&C Black . 978-1-4411-3327-4 . en.
  6. Book: Nollen, Scott Allen . Takashi Shimura: Chameleon of Japanese Cinema . 2019-03-14 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-7013-3 . en.
  7. Book: Berra, John . Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 . 2012-01-09 . Intellect Books . 978-1-84150-598-5 . en.
  8. Book: Davis . Blair . Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and their legacies . Anderson . Robert . Walls . Jan . 2015-11-06 . Routledge . 978-1-317-57464-4 . en.
  9. Book: Juan, Eric San . Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide . 2018-12-15 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-5381-1090-4 . en.
  10. Book: IV, Stuart Galbraith . The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . 2008-05-16 . Scarecrow Press . 978-1-4616-7374-3 . en.
  11. Book: Conrad, David A. . Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan . 2022-04-26 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-4637-4 . en.
  12. Book: Berra, John . Directory of World Cinema: Japan 2 . 2012 . Intellect Books . 978-1-84150-551-0 . en.
  13. Book: Welsh . James M. . The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia . Phillips . Gene D. . Hill . Rodney F. . 2010-08-27 . Scarecrow Press . 978-0-8108-7651-4 . en.
  14. Book: Erens, Patricia . Akira Kurosawa: A Guide to References and Resources . 1979 . G. K. Hall . 978-0-8161-7994-7 . en.
  15. Book: Yoshimoto, Mitsuhiro . Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema . 2000 . Duke University Press . 978-0-8223-2519-2 . en.
  16. Book: Driver . Martha W. . Shakespeare and the Middle Ages: Essays on the Performance and Adaptation of the Plays with Medieval Sources or Settings . Ray . Sid . 2014-01-10 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-9165-0 . en.
  17. Book: Morefield, Kenneth R. . Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema: Volume II . 2011-07-13 . Cambridge Scholars Publishing . 978-1-4438-3279-3 . en.
  18. Book: Richie, Donald . The Films of Akira Kurosawa . 1996 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-20026-5 . en.
  19. Book: 文化庁映画週間公式記錄報告書 . 2005 . Bunkachō . en.
  20. Book: Cinemaya . 1999 . A. Vasudev . en.
  21. Book: 愛媛大学法文学部論集: 人文学科編 . 2008 . 愛媛大学法文学部 . ja.
  22. Web site: 公益財団法人川喜多記念映画文化財団 川喜多賞 . 2023-05-27 . www.kawakita-film.or.jp.
  23. Web site: 映画鑑賞記録サービス KINENOTE｜キネマ旬報社 . 2023-05-27 . www.kinenote.com.

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