Eiichi Kudo (工藤 栄一, Kudō Eiichi, 17 July 1929 – 23 September 2000) was a Japanese film director.
[1] Kudo directed 30 films between 1956 and 1998, the most notable being 13 Assassins (1963) and The Great Killing (1964).
[2] He joined the Toei film company in 1952 and made his film director debut with Fukaku hichō in 1959.
[4] Kudo directed many television dramas, notably more than 50 episodes of the popular television jidaigeki Hissatsu series.
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