Born in Tokyo in 1905 and dying in 1980, Hiroshi Inagaki was a child actor who became a director in the silent era, and a leading maker of samurai and period films for Toho. He remade his own Muhomatsu no issho as Rickshaw Man (1958), which won the Golden Lion at Venice. Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954), the first part of his Samurai Trilogy with Toshiro Mifune, won the Oscar for foreign language film. He also directed Chushingura (1962) and Kunisada Chuji.
Filmography
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
- Rickshaw Man (1958)
- The Three Treasures (1959)
- Chushingura (1962)
- Whirlwind (1964)