Akira Nobuchi (野淵 昶, Nobuchi Akira, 22 June 1896Nihon Eiga Terebi Kantoku Zenshū, Kinema Junposha Co., Ltd. (1988) p. 544. - 1 February 1968Kyoto Shimbun (evening) 2 February 1968, p. 11.) was a Japanese stage director and film director.
He launched the Elan Vital Shōgekijō little theatre in 1918 while he was at Kyoto Imperial University.Ōoka, Kinji. Kansai Shingeki-shi, Tōhō Shuppan (1991) p. 603. He stage-managed plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Schnitzler, Lord Dunsany, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O'Casey as well as those by Japanese playwrights including Saneatsu Mushanokōji, Ujaku Akita, Masao Kume and Jun'ichirō Tanizaki.
Having left the Elan Vital Shōgekijō in 1933,Matsumoto, Kappei. Nihon Shingekishi: Shingeki Binbo Monogatari, Chikuma Shobō (1966) p. 641. he entered Shinkō Kinema the following year."Tokushū Shinkō Kinema Kantoku Meikan" Shinkō Kinema March issue Vol. 4, Eikosha (1935) p. 72. He made a debut with talkie Nagasaki Ryūgakusei (1935), after which he made more than 30 films until 1955.
Selected filmography Nagasaki Ryūgakusei (1935) Yoshida Goten (1937) Shizuka Gozen (1938) Fūfu Nise (1940) Taki no Shiraito (1952) Kaidan Botan-dōrō (1955)
Bibliography Short stories of to-day (1929) One-act plays of to-day (1929) Enshutsu Nyūmon (1949)
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