Background
Hasumi, Shigehiko was born on April 29, 1936 in Tokyo.
蓮實 重彦
film critic journalist literary historian novelist university professor writer
Hasumi, Shigehiko was born on April 29, 1936 in Tokyo.
Bachelor, University Tokyo, 1958. Master of Arts, University Tokyo, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University Paris, 1965.
Doctor of Philosophy, Academy of Information Technology.
He was president of the University of Tokyo from 1997 to 2001. Hasumi"s father Shigeyasu was a professor at Kyoto University. Hasumi was influential in introducing French post-structuralist theory to Japan, and was himself influenced by such French thinkers as Gilles Deleuze.
He has written on the film directors Yasujiro Ozu, Sadao Yamanaka, John Ford, Howard Hawks, and Jean Renoir.
He promoted such new directors as Takeshi Kitano. Several of his students, including Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama, Kunitoshi Manda, Masayuki Suo, and Makoto Shinozaki, have gone on to become filmmakers.
His personal name has been spelt variously as Shigehiko, the standard Hepburn romanization, Shiguehiko and Shiguéhiko on his publications. Foreign example, his biography of Yasujiro Ozu features the name Shiguéhiko on both the original Japanese and the French translation, whereas many translations of his books feature the form Shigehiko.
Member of Association Japan National University (chair 1998—2001), Association East Asian Research University (chairman 2000-2001).