Trivia

Directed Japan's first color film: Karumen kokyô ni kaeru (1951).

Keisuke Kinoshita, Akira Kurosawa, Kon Ichikawa and Masaki Kobayashi founded their own company, Yonki No Kai ('Club of The Four Knights'), in 1969 to assert an independent film making process and escape the studio system. They managed to produce only one movie, Kurosawa's Camino de la vida (1970).

Is the Mentor of Masaki Kobayashi.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 542-549. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Brother of Chûji Kinoshita.