Born in Hiroshima Prefecture, he began working at Nikkatsu's Kyoto studio in 1924 and eventually came to prominence for a series of realist, humanist films made at Nikkatsu's Tamagawa studio in the late 1930s such as Robō no ishi and Mud and Soldiers, both of which starred Isamu Kosugi.
Directing
42
Male
1901-04-14
Hiroshima, Japan
Томотака Тасака, Томотака Тадзака
Daughter and Springtime
Kekkon nijuso: zenpen
Explosion!
Mother and Child Grass
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Five Scouts
You and I
Behold This Mother
The Baby Carriage
Koto—The Lake of Tears
Navy
A Pebble by the Wayside
A Slope in the Sun
Mud and Soldiers
The Maid's Kid
A Carpenter and Children
Run, Genta, Run!
Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Shinran, Part II
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Victory Song
Town of Love
This Day's Life
Yukiwarisō
A House in the Quarter
Shinran
Scrap Collectors
Tsuki yori no shisha
The Stream of Youth
The Sharks
Hero of Alishan