Teruyo Nogami

 ( 1927 Births ) 

lead=yes is a Japanese film script supervisor and author. She is best known for her work on many of Akira Kurosawa's films, a partnership that began in 1950.

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Life and career Nogami was born in Tokyo as the daughter of Iwao Nogami, a scholar of German literature and professor at Kobe University after the war. In 1943, she graduated from the Metropolitan Girls' School of Home Economics. She entered the library training school.

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In 1944, she graduated from the Library Training Institute, and took up a position at the former Yamaguchi High School Library in Yamaguchi Prefecture. After the war she returned to Tokyo and in 1946 she joined the People's Daily and in 1947 she joined Yakumo Shoten.

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When she was a student circa 1941, she saw Mansaku Itami's Akanishi Kakita (1936) and wrote a fan letter to him.

She became pen pals with the director. After Itami's death, Nogami became an apprentice script supervisor at Daiei Film's Kyoto Studio in 1949. She began her career as a script supervisor on Akira Nobuchi's Fukkatsu (1950). That year, she also participated in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon as a script supervisor. In 1951, she moved to Toho and participated in all Kurosawa films after Ikiru as recording, editing and production assistant.

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In the meantime, she has also been enrolled in Sun Ad since 1966, and has also worked on commercial production. In 1979 she left the company.

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In 1984, she won the Yomiuri Human Documentary Award for Excellence for Requiem for Father, which depicts her childhood. In 2008, director Yoji Yamada turned this into a movie called .

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Filmography

• Rashomon (1950)
  (2015). 9781317574644, Routledge. . ISBN 9781317574644
• Ikiru (1952) – script supervisor
  Eric San Juan (2018). 9781538110904, Rowman & Littlefield. . ISBN 9781538110904
• Seven Samurai (1954)
  Stuart Galbraith IV (2008). 9781461673743, Scarecrow Press. . ISBN 9781461673743
• Throne of Blood (1957)
  David A. Conrad (2022). 9781476646374, McFarland. . ISBN 9781476646374
• High and Low (1963)
  John Berra (2026). 9781841505510, Intellect Books. . ISBN 9781841505510
• Red Beard (1965)
  (2010). 9780810876514, Scarecrow Press. . ISBN 9780810876514
• Dodes'ka-den (1970) – script supervisor
• Dersu Uzala (1975)
  Patricia Erens (1979). 9780816179947, G. K. Hall. . ISBN 9780816179947
• Kagemusha (1980) – associate producer
  Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (2026). 9780822325192, Duke University Press. . ISBN 9780822325192
• Ran (1985) – production manager
  (2014). 9780786491650, McFarland. . ISBN 9780786491650
• Dreams (1990) – production manager
  Kenneth R. Morefield (2011). 9781443832793, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. . ISBN 9781443832793
• Rhapsody in August (1991)
  Donald Richie (1996). 9780520200265, University of California Press. . ISBN 9780520200265
• Madadayo (1993)
• After the Rain (2000)
• Letters from the Mountains (2002)

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Awards

• 5th Yomiuri "Female Human Documentary" Grand Prize, Excellence Award (for Requiem for Father, 1984)
• Fumiko Yamaji Distinguished Service Award
• 3rd Agency for Cultural Affairs Film Award, Film Achievement Award (2005)
• The 28th (2010) Kawakita Award
• The 34th Japan Academy Prize, Association Special Award (2011)
• 69th Mainichi Film Concours Special Award (2014)
• 2nd Kyoto International Film Festival Shozo Makino Award (2015)
• 94th Kinema Junpo Best Ten Special Award
• 35th Tokyo International Film Festival, Lifetime Achievement Award

Categories: 1927 Births, Living People, 20th-century Japanese Women Writers, Kobe University Alumni, Writers From Tokyo

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