Minoru Inuzuka

{{Short description|Japanese film director and screenwriter (1901–2007)}}

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| name = Minoru Inuzuka

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1901|2|15}}

| birth_place = Tokyo, Japan

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|9|17|1901|2|15}}

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| nationality = Japanese

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

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{{nihongo|Minoru Inuzuka|犬塚 稔|Inuzuka Minoru|15 February 1901 – 17 September 2007}} was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Starting out as a screenwriter at Shochiku in 1924, he also participated in the production of Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness.{{cite book|last=Gerow|first=Aaron|title=A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan|publisher=Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan|year=2008|pages=26–28|isbn=9781929280513}} When Chōjirō Hayashi (later known as Kazuo Hasegawa) became a jidaigeki star at Shochiku, Inuzuka directed many of his films. After World War II, Inuzuka returned to specializing in screenplays and was known for his scripts for the Zatoichi series. He published his autobiography in 2002,{{cite book|last=Inuzuka|first=Minoru|title=Eiga wa kagerō no gotoku|year=2002|publisher=Sōshisha|location=Tokyo|isbn=479421104X|oclc=50601808|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50601808}} and died in 2007 at the age of 106.{{cite news|title=Kyakuhonka, eiga kantoku no Inuzuka Minoru-san shikyo|url=http://www.asahi.com/culture/movie/OSK200709250039.html|accessdate=24 April 2012|newspaper=Asahi shinbun|date=25 September 2007}} When he died, he was called the last surviving director to have directed a silent film in the 1920s.{{cite web|title=RIP Minoru Inuzuka|url=http://thebioscope.net/2007/10/16/rip-minoru-inuzuka/|work=The Bioscope|date=16 October 2007|accessdate=24 April 2012}} Inuzuka wrote scripts for over 150 films and directed over 50.