Minoru Inuzuka (犬塚 稔, Inuzuka Minoru, 15 February 1901 – 17 September 2007) was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.
Starting out as a screenwriter at Shochiku in 1924, he also participated in the production of Teinosuke Kinugasa's A Page of Madness.
[1] When Chōjirō Hayashi (later known as Kazuo Hasegawa) became a jidaigeki star at Shochiku, Inuzuka directed many of his films.
After World War II, Inuzuka returned to specializing in screenplays and was known for his scripts for the Zatoichi series.
[3] When he died, he was called the last surviving director to have directed a silent film in the 1920s.