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Hiroshi Inagaki (稲垣浩 Inagaki Hiroshi; 30 December 1905 – 21 May 1980) was a Japanese filmmaker most known for the Academy Award-winning Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, which he directed in 1954. Before becoming a director and screenwriter, Inagaki was a child actor.

His 1958 film Rickshaw Man won the Golden Lion award at that year's Venice Film Festival.

Filmography

(incomplete)

as film director

• (狼火は上海に揚る　春江遺恨 Noroshi wa Shanghai ni agaru) literally: Signal Fires of Shanghai (1944)
• Sword for Hire (Sengoku burai) (1952)
• Samurai Trilogy
  • Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)
  • Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (続宮本武蔵　一乗寺決闘 Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no kettō) (1955)
  • Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956)
• The Lone Journey aka The Road (Tabiji) (1955)
• Arashi (1956)
• Yagyu Secret Scrolls (柳生武芸帳 Yagyu Bugeicho) (1957)
• Rickshaw Man (1957)
• Yagyu Secret Scrolls part II (柳生武芸帳　双龍秘剣 Yagyu Bugeicho - Ninjitsu) aka Ninjitsu (1958)
• The Birth of Japan (日本誕生, Nippon Tanjō), also called The Three Treasures (1959)
• Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki with Toshiro Mifune (1962)
• Samurai Banners (風林火山, Fūrin Kazan) (1962)

as producer:

• Shinsengumi (1969)

External links

• Hiroshi Inagaki at the Internet Movie Database
• "稲垣浩 (Inagaki Hiroshi)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0037460.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-13.  
• Hiroshi Inagaki's grave