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Ishirō Honda

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Ishirō Honda

May 5, 1911 – Feb 28, 199395 titles 93 movies · 2 TV
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Biography

Ishirō Honda (Honda Ishirō), sometimes miscredited in foreign releases as "Inoshiro Honda", (May 7, 1911, in Yamagata Prefecture – February 28, 1993) was a Japanese film director. His early film career included working as an assistant under the famed director Akira Kurosawa. Alongside his film duties, he was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II in China and was a prisoner there when the war ended. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ishirō Honda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

本多猪四郎 · Исиро Хонда · 혼다 이시로 · 이시로 혼다 · Inoshiro Honda · Inoshira Honda · I. Honda · Honda Ishirō · Honda Inoshirō · Yinoshiro Honda

Born

May 5, 1911 – Feb 28, 1993

Yamagata, Japan

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

10

Acting credits

81

Directing

21

Writing

6

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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