"Five Women Surrounding Him" ​​- The five women surrounding him

...After the talkies, he made few films, and after retiring from the industry, he trained many talented actors at the Japan Film Actors School. Immediately after the Great Kanto Earthquake, he worked with Mori Iwao and others to revamp the projects of the Nikkatsu Friday Club, and wrote the screenplays for works that would become classic masterpieces of Japanese cinema, such as Mizoguchi Kenji's "Paper Dolls: Whispers of Spring" (1926) and Abe Yutaka's "Five Women Around Him" ​​(1927). In his later years, he taught acting theory and practice at university art faculties and film studio actor training centers, and made special appearances in Imai Tadashi's "Until We Meet Again" (1950), Toyoda Shiro's "The Wild Geese" (1953), and others. ...

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…トーキー以後はほとんど作品がなく，現場から退いた後は，日本映画俳優学校で多くの人材を育てた。関東大震災直後，森岩雄らと日活金曜会で企画の刷新をはかり，溝口健二《紙人形春の囁き》(1926)，阿部豊《彼をめぐる五人の女》(1927)など日本映画の古典的名作として記録されることになる作品のシナリオを書いた。晩年は大学の芸術学部や撮影所の俳優養成所で演技理論と実際の指導にあたり，また，今井正《また逢う日まで》(1950)，豊田四郎《雁》(1953)その他に特別出演している。…

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