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Kamatari Fujiwara

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:For Template:Infobox person Template:Nihongo was a Japanese stage and film actor<ref name="Kotobank">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Kinenote">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="NHK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> who appeared in over 200 films between 1933 and 1984.<ref name="jmdb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In addition to regular appearances in the films of Akira Kurosawa,<ref name="Kotobank" /><ref name="NHK" /> he worked for directors such as Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Heinosuke Gosho and others.

Early life and careerEdit

Fujiwara was born on 15 January 1905 in Tokyo, Japan.<ref name="Kotobank" /><ref name="Kinenote" /> Fujiwara had initially focused on music before he became known as a comic actor <ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> After performing in Asakusa operas,<ref name="Kotobank" /><ref name="NHK" /> a popular form of opera during the Taishō era until its decline after the Great Kantō earthquake,<ref name="Kotobank2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he joined Ken'ichi Enomoto's New Casino Folies.<ref name="Kotobank" /><ref name="NHK" /> Enomoto's troupe performed satirical stage shows in an era often associated with the term Template:Illm or "Erotic Grotesque Nonsense" era.<ref name="maeda">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="silverberg">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Kotobank3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Fujiwara gave his film debut in the 1933 film Ongaku kigeki – Horoyui jinsei (lit. "Musical comedy – Intoxicated life"), the first production of the P.C.L. studios (later Toho).<ref>Galbraith IV, Stuart "The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography", Scarecrow press, 2008, p.ix</ref> Most of Fujiwara's later films were Toho productions.<ref name="jmdb" /> He married actress Sadako Sawamura in 1936 (divorced in 1946).Template:Citation needed In the late 1930s, Fujiwara found himself in trouble with the nationalist government. The authorities were pushing for artists and high profile individuals to change their names to the traditional spelling, and he was under official censure to do so. Despite this, he kept his name.<ref name=":0" />

Post-war careerEdit

Fujiwara's shomin persona always was that of a real-life person. Generally he played the role of an ordinary subject-citizen: petty, conservative, mediocre, far from being handsome or rich. Over time he made this his specialty.<ref>Ginoza, Naomi "Dissonance to Affinity: An Ideological Analysis of Japanese Cinema in the 1930s" p. 271</ref>

He made his first appearance in an Akira Kurosawa film in the 1952 Ikiru, playing the role of Senkichi, and became a long-time member of Kurosawa's company of actors until his death. Other films with Kurosawa include Seven Samurai, The Lower Depths, The Hidden Fortress and Yojimbo. In addition to Kurosawa, Fujiwara regularly appeared in the films of Mikio Naruse, with whom he had worked since the mid-1930s in films like Wife! Be Like a Rose!, and had roles in Heinosuke Gosho's An Inn at Osaka and Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Twilight. He also started appearing on TV in the 1950s,<ref name="TVDDB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> including the series Ayu no uta.<ref name="NHK" />

In 1981, Fujiwara received the Order of the Sacred Treasure, 4th Class.<ref name="NHK" /> His final film role was in Juzo Itami's The Funeral. He died in 1985 at the age of 80.

LegacyEdit

The peasant duo in Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, played by Minoru Chiaki and Fujiwara, has repeatedly been cited as inspiration for the robot characters C-3PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected filmographyEdit

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