Ieki Miyoji
- Name: Ieki Miyoji
- Native name: 家城巳代治
- Also Known as: いえき みよじ
- Nationality: Japanese
- Gender: Male
- Born: September 10, 1911
- Died: February 22, 1976
During the fifties, working for independent production companies, Ieki produced his most notable films. Beyond the Clouds (Kumo nagaruru hate ni, 1953) was a sombre account of the training and last days of kamikaze pilots, stressing their indoctrination and the waste of young lives. Tomoshibi (1954), a study of schoolchildren in a poor farming community, voiced a subtle anger at the conservatism of traditional education methods and the extent of rural poverty. Sisters (Shimai, 1955) was a richly textured family drama, well acted and capturing the atmosphere of provincial Japan early in the Showa period. Perhaps Ieki’s best film was Half Brothers (Ibō kyōdai, 1957), in which the domestic cruelties within an army officer’s family became a microcosm of the wider tyranny of prewar militarism. Superbly acted by Kinuyo Tanaka as the family’s maid and Rentarō Mikuni as the army officer forced to marry her after raping her, it was a film of both political sophistication and emotional intensity.
Ieki returned to studio production, at Toei, with The Naked Sun (Hadaka no taiyō, 1958); this was an account of life among poor railway workers. Like his earlier films, it showed a sensitivity to the problems of the young. Ieki continued to direct films about children and young people through the sixties. Among them were A Pebble by the Wayside (Robō no ishi, 1964), a remake of Tomotaka Tasaka’s 1938 adaptation of a Yūzō Yamamoto novel set in the Meiji era, about the four hundred blows suffered by an unhappy child, and The Only Child (Hitorikko, 1969) about a high school boy forbidden to go to university by his mother and her lover.
Ieki’s films reveal the influence of his mentor Gosho in their subtle, unshowy technique, realist texture, and human detail. He was adept at suggesting the emotions of his characters through subtleties of gesture and expression and at addressing political themes through personal drama. His work merits international exposure.
(Source: A Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors) Edit Biography
Director
Title | Rating |
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Love Is in the Green Wind | 4.0 |
All My Children | 0.0 |
These Wonderful Girls | 0.0 |
The Naked Sun | 4.0 |
Stepbrothers | 6.0 |
Mune yori Mune ni | 5.0 |
Screenwriter & Director
Title | Rating |
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Only Child | 0.0 |
Roadside Stone | 6.0 |
Machi | 6.0 |
Tomoshibi | 2.0 |
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